Ad Writing Contest awards big prizes for reader ads
The piece outlines prize options for the Ad Writing Contest 1921 offering first prize of 100 cash or substitutes such as a Brunswick phonograph or Cataract Washer. It details 40 other prizes, weekly deadlines, rules for entry, and lists 24 products to write about including Colorite Dyes Community Plate and Cro ke r Fountain Pens. It encourages nonprofessionals to submit opinions about the products by 5 pm Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sanae
Peeters
Zain
Boston
Boston Post
Get Together Banquet of Big Retail Storemen
The Boston Chamber of Commerce retail trade board with 80 New England stores plans its first large get-together banquet at the Hotel Vendome tomorrow evening. George R. Nutter will speak, Felix Vorenberg toasts, with elaborate entertainment and music. Stores like Jordan Marsh Gilchrist Shepard William Filene R. H. White join in fostering retail unity and friendly competition.
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George R. Nutter
Chamber of Commerce
Felix Vorenberg
Gilchrist Company
Boston
Jordan Marsh Company
The
Shepard Stores
William Filene Sons Company
R. H. White Company
Empress Augusta Victoria Laid to Rest in Potsdam
Forty thousand mourners in Potsdam watched Augusta Victoria, former Empress of Germany, laid to rest in the Antique Temple after a state funeral. Notables including Hindenburg, Ludendorff, von Mackensen, von Kluck, and von Falkenhayn led the procession amid absence of the ex-Kaiser and his son. The mausoleum will close until the crypt for Wilhelm is finished.
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Berlin
United News
Augusta Victoria
Germany
Potsdam
Hohengollern
Wilhelm
$35 000 Holstein Cow Dies of Milk Fever
Sadie Gerben Henger veld De Kol, a nine year old Holstein cow noted for a 40 pound butter fat seven day test, died in Appleton Wisconsin from milk fever. Officials of the Wisconsin Livestock Association valued the cow at $35 000.
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Appleton, Wis
Sadie Gerben Hengerveld de Kol
United States
Canada
Wisconsin Livestock Association
Cambridge Police Crack Three in Looting Ring
Cambridge police arrested three men for looting four apartments over the past two months. Two face charges of burglary and the third is accused of disposing stolen goods. Investigators say jewelry and clothing worth about 3000 dollars was taken.
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Cambridge
Grace Adams Wed Leland Fisher in Back Bay Home
Dr Grace Luella Adams who urged mayoral consent to use Faneuil Hall for her wedding was wed to Leland Fisher of Newton at 289 Newbury Street Back Bay. Rev Izetta B Sears spiritualist evangelist officiated with a small group of friends attending.
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Grace Luella Adams
Faneuil Hall
Leland Fisher
Newton
F. J. Lewis
Newbury Street
Back Bay
Izetta B. Sears
Herrmann says engagement rumor to Dougherty was joking
Cincinnati official August Herrmann, president of the Cincinnati National League Club, says the announced engagement to Mrs. Elizabeth Dougherty was premature and arose from joking among friends at a dinner attended by him and Mrs Dougherty.
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Cincinnati
August Herrmann
Cincinnati National League Baseball Club
Elizabeth Dougherty
Simple Method dissolves blackheads with calonite powder
This ad promotes using about two ounces of calonite powder on a hot wet sponge to dissolve and remove blackheads quickly. Briskly rub the powder and water over the skin, then wash away, claiming pores return to normal and skin stays soft.
No Trouble to Keep Skin Free From Hairs
An advertisement touts delatone paste as a method to remove superfluous facial hairs. It claims the paste, made from powdered delatone and water, is applied for 2 to 3 minutes then rubbed off and washed to leave no blemish. It warns to use real fresh delatone.
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Eckman
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Riker-Jaynes
New York
Maurice Kozminski
Compagnie Generale Transatlantique
French Line
Mass
Dita
Formosa
Ceylon
Beacon Hill
Hecker
Royal Baking Powde
Jemima
Graham
Clark’s
Gael 'Toastan
Underwood
Babbitt
Britt
Crocker
Boston Varneh Company
Colgate
Crocker Atain P Eaton
Holland
Gillette
Harvard
Kutter
Kool-Shaw
Creem
Bo van
Peer
Ad Tee
Ipswich
Lawrence & CO
London
Englund
Cape Cod Ship Building Corp
Main St
Wareham
Maes
Horlick
Crown Prince
Kaiser
Hermann
Shop of
Better Values
A. Abrams
Washinton St
W. & A. Bacon
Thompsonville
Conn
Bigelow-Hartford Carpet Company
John V. Wilson Company
Brookline Avenue
BEST
Carbona Products Co
W. 26Th St
Carbona
Mayr
Houghton & Dutton’s
Drug Dept
Epstein Drug Co
Shreve, Crump and Low Company
Tremont Street
Massachusetts
Stee Ferd
T. Hopkins & Son
Gouraud's Oriental
Mason Maes
Priest Drug CO
Bangor
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