Test of patience and skill offers chances for prizes
It may mean 1270.00 to you with one hundred free prizes. This is not a trick puzzle but a tes of patience and skill. Surely yor chance for winning is as good anyone else's.
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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jan 22, 1925
Page
2
It may mean 1270.00 to you with one hundred free prizes. This is not a trick puzzle but a tes of patience and skill. Surely yor chance for winning is as good anyone else's.
The notice details prizes totaling 95000 with first prize values up to 1270 including a Ford Touring Car Radiola sets and cash options. It lists second to fifth prizes with various Radiola models and cash, plus many smaller prizes for forty six to seventy five and beyond. It invites subscribers to solve a puzzle and win valuable rewards. Different solving methods are offered.
Open to all except staff. Entry requires a $2 subscription credited to both contest and Cranbrook Herald. Subscriptions payable to Contest department. Ties lead to Puzzle No 2 for tied entrants only. No third puzzle. Contest ends February 1925 with early solvers rewarded. The department may alter rules and disqualify contestants at its sole discretion.
A classic figure puzzle asks for the sum of the numbers in two circles that equals the total miles heard by a Canadian broadcasting station. Figures range two to nine with no nines or zeroes, curved tops on sixes, straight bottoms on nines, and each digit standing alone.
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