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Complim Yes, one thousand sets of Everybody's Cyclopedia are speeding on their way to Richmond. They will be here Tuesday, ready fordistribntionl A wire was received last night saying that 1,000 sets of these $12.00 books are on the way. Come on?get yours?there is no longer cause for waiting. Clip the coupons?be sure to get in line. Remember, too, that as soon as these first thousand are gone, others will be coming?until the complimentary sets are all gone, then it .will be too late. Come Tuesday. THIS FREE By The Times-Dispatch For Six Consecutive Coupons SET OF MODERN REFERENCE BOOKS CONTAINS JUST WHAT YOU WANT TO KNOW fn a con? venient form that makes it f> o 6 s i ble or you to find the desired in f o rmation in an in? stant. And only the necessary promotion and expense items of distribution until this introductory edition is exhausted,amount* ing to only $1.98 Full directions given under the Advance Complimentary Coupon printed daily on another page. A GIFT TO ALL Millions of dollars are being spent in advertising EXPENSIVE sets of educational books. The Britannica alone is expending upwards of a mil? lion dollars in general publicity in the four-page announcements you have seen run for over a year in every mag? azine you open. But any expensive set is large and unhandy; they are made up of ten, or twenty, or more books; they are heavy and unwieldy. The prices of all larger sets are 60 high? over S100?that they must be sold on the installment Elan. The publishers of Everybody's Cyclopedia took advantage of all these facts, and from a revision of ALL these various large and good cyclopedias, they have compiled all that Is good?all that is necessary?and have merely eliminated or condensed that which would be of interest to a specialist or a technical student. FEATHER WEIGHT EDITION ^Consists -of fitsje volumes, complete front A to Z Thc wealth of informa? tion c o m ptiaes a re? vision of the subjects from ALL the large cyclopedias that are spending h u n d r eds or thousands of dollare monthly in all magazines you opetn. it has retained EVERY item of general and useful interest-? Every ithing of Value. You Get the Complete Set All at Once THE $12 SET?JUST AS IT LOOKS?Bound in English Cloth CLIP THE COUPONS FROM THE AND GET THIS HANDY REFERENCE WORK This FEATHER WEIGHT edition; only FIVE volumes; contains ALL important cyclopedic FACTS; every ready and HANDY to use; and priced at LESS than the average of ONE installment. BUT it is NOT advertised in the magazines, and you can get it ONLY through this newspaper, while this one edition lasts, previous to its being put on sale through canvassers at its regular SI2 price aftc this immense publicity campaign is finished. For the boy at school; for the girl at school; for the young man or voung woman out of school; for the older members of the family?in fact, for ALL who desire to PROGRESS, this USEFUL set of books means SUCCESS. It is KNOWLEDGE that causes the wheels to revolve; it is EDUCATION* that leads to ADVANCEMENT. This HANDY reference work is your STOREHOUSE of KNOWLEDGE? it is the means of EDUCATION for your children?it is the ever ready GUIDE to ADVANCEMENT. ? I OUT-OF-TOWN READERS K.rA? will be tent to you on the above terms express charges upon receipt of same. OST USEFUL OF BOOKS ON EARTH