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PROGRESS BUSINESS PRODUCING CONTEST
More than Half a Million Buyers have picked the
Ford because of its all ’round serviceability
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You Can Be One of the Vast Army of Ford Owners
if you will get to work and work hard and win the Five-Passenger A \
Touring Car The Progress is giving away in its Business Producing -
Start in Now With the Determination to be the Winner
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THIRD PRIZE
Beautiful Diamond Ring
Retail value $ 1 00.00. Now on dis
play at Wilson’s Jewely Store
Progress Business Prnilncint; Contest
Here are all the rules that govern this contest, they
are simple and easy to follow:
Enter
(State whether Mr., Mrs. or Miss)
Postoffice R. F. D
In the Business Producing Contest which is to close on
November 4, 1914.
1. —Contest will be open for entrants until Thursday,
July 2, after which date it will close to entrants for all
time. Any white person of either sex or age who is a
resident of Douglas or Coffee County is entitled to enter
and can do so by filling out the following coupon:
2. —Name of the contestant may be entered by the
party wishing to contest or by a relative or friend. The
entrance coupon above will entitle the entrant to a credit
of 2,000 votes in the contest.
3. —Votes will be credited as follows: For each 25c
(3 months) subscription, 150; for each 50c (6 months)
subscription, 400 votes; for each $1 (1 year) subscription.
1,000 votes; for each $2 (2 year) subscription, 3,000
votes; for each $3 (3 year) subscription, 6,000 votes; for
each $5 (5 year) subscription, 10,000 votes; for each dol
lar’s worth of job work sent in by contestant, 500 votes;
for each dollar’s worth of advertising sent in by the con
testant, 1.000 votes. There will be no bonuses offered
nor any coupons published giving free votes. The only
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Plain, Simple Rules Governing Contest
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THE COFFEE COUNTY PROGRESS. DOUGLAS, GEORGIA
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SECOND PRlZE—Wellman Piano
way that votes can be obtained is by the contestants
themselves securing the business and sending it in direct;
except when business is forwarded direct to The Progress
from the buyer and the buyer so states the votes may be
given to whichever contestant may be named.
4. —No contestant will be allowed Ko withdraw from
the race in favor of another contestant; but any contes
tant may withdraw and receive commission on the amount
of business done at any time during the contest. This
withdrawal, however, shall eliminate any further partici
pation in the contest by the one withdrawing.
5. —The following prizes will be awarded the contes
tants on Wednesday, November 4, or as soon thereafter
as it is possible to determine the winners;
CAPITAL or Grand Prize. To the contestant receiv
ing the greatest number of votes will be given 1 Ford,
five-passenger touring car valued at $600.00; said car to
be on displav at the Ford Agency in the city of Douglas
during the life of the contest, and is to be brand new and
not lo have run at all except for the purpose of placing it
in the public streets of the city of Douglas for display pur
poses. Car to be identical with all Ford 1915 models and
guaranteed by the Ford agency in like manner with all
the car? they sell.
Piano. To the contestant receiving the second high
est number of votes will be given 1 Wellman piano, valu
ed at $250.00; piano now on display at Tanner’s Pharmacv
and guaranteed by Hallett & Davis Piano Co., of Atlanta,
Ga„ as having been shipped direct from their factory at
Boston. Mass. Said Piano to be tne best made of the
kind and to be identical with all the Famous Wellman
Pianos made and sold by Hallett & Davis.
Diamond Ring. The contestant receiving the third
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largest number of votes shall be entitled to one Diamond
Ring valued at $90.00, now on display at Wilson’s Jewel).y
Store. Said ring to be mounted at the close of the con
test to suit the winner. The diamond is guaranteed gen
uine by Wilson’s Jewelry Store, J. R. Wood & Son, of New
York City, and the Progress Publishing Co., and to be of
the value named. It will be on display at all times dur
ing the contest.
Gold Watch. The person receiving the fourth larg
est number of votes in the contest shall receive a watch,
either gentleman’s or ladies’, as the winner may seh.-cf,
valued at retail at $25.00. Said two watches now being
on display at the store of Messrs. Fielding & Sibbett,
where they may be seen at any time during the contest.
6. Any contestant working in the contest not receiv
ing sufficient votes to secure one of the above four named
prizes, will be paid a commission of ten per cent on the
total amount of business sent in to The Progress during
the contest. This is a guarantee that no one working in
the contest will lose altogether, but that each and every
contestant will get either a prize or the commission.
7. —Should any contestant winning a prize, not de
sire to retain said prize it may be given to the next high
est contestant and the other prizes ranged along with it.
The contestant desiring to be relieved of the prize won
will, in this event, be paid a commission of ten per cent
on the total amount of business done, as heretofore
stated.
8. —There will be no votes in the contest except those
obtained for actual business done for The Progress and
turned in to The Progress.
9. —No person in the employ of The Progress or mem
bers of their families shall be allowed to enter the con
test. This rule does not apply to correspondents.
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FOURTH PRIZE
Ladies’ or Gents’ Watch
Can be Seen at Fielding & Sibbett’s
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