The Richmond Virginian., June 30, 1910, CITY EDITION, Image 7

About The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920

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$2,OOO-IN CASH tobe GIVEN AWAY-$2,000
The Richmond Virginian, Virginia’s new daily State paper, has reached on its merits in a few months a foremost position in Richmond
and throughout the State of Virginia. It desires to make its merits familiar to thousands of Virginia homes, and proposes to reward
liberally all who help to accomplish the result.
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THE PLAN IN BRIEF:
The Richmond Virginian will award $2,000 CASH in addition to 10% commission on all subscrip
tions secured In a gigantic subscription campaign. The plan adopted is the fairest and most impartial
conceivable and affords every one an opportunity to earn money without an element of chance. It
Invites legitimate competitive work on a basis, where personal effort and perseverance will be
liberally rewarded.
The basic idea of the contest Is, of course, the securing of subscriptions to The Richmond Vir
ginian.
$2,000 in cash, in addition to 10% on all subscriptions secured, will be awarded to the popular
workers who secure the largest number .of credits to be issued by The Richmond Virginian for paid
in-advance subscriptions and for coupons clippedeach day frdmiThe Richmonds irgintan.
10% Commission will be allowed on all subscriptions secured by contestants, enabling every one
who enters the contest to receive a substantial cash award.
Contest Opens June 27th, 1910 and Closes Sept, 30th, 1910
Read Conditions Carefully:
Any person, man or woman, boy or girl, resident of
Virginia is eligible to enter the Contest provided the
conditions set forth are complied with. The Contest
Manager reserves the right to reject any nominations.
Candidates must be regularly nominated in writing,
on the nomination blank printed in this paper, or a
similar blank furnished by The Richmond Virginian.
Candidates must reside in the State of Virginia and
in the district from which nominated.
Candidates will not be permitted to transfer credits
to another after a credit certificate has been issued by the
Contest Manager.
A credit ballot will be printed each day in The Rich
mond Virginian which when properly filled out, and
sent to the Contest Department of The Richmond
Virginian, -will be good for the number of credits printed
thereon, if received before the expiration date printed
on each ballot.
Postage must be fully prepaid on all ballots sent by
mail.
A credit certificate will be issued by the Contest
Manager, good for the number of credits, as per de
clining credit scale, which may be retained by the Con
testant until the dost' of each voting period or such a
time as the Contestant may desire to have same pub
lished.
In order to secure credit certificates, all money must
be sent direct to The Richmond Virginian Contest
Department by the contestants or their friends, as
credit certificates will only be issued by the Contest
Manager.
In case of a tie for any of the cash awards offered by
The Richntond Virginian, eac'h candidate will receive
a cash awadd of equal value o £ the award tied for.
Contestants that live in one ‘district are not prevented
from securing^subscriptions in any other district. Credit
certificates will be issued in) accordance with the de
clining credit scale on prepaid subscriptions, secured
anywherei in the United States.
The Richmond Virginia® reserves the rightto alter
or make thny changes that may be deemed ; advisable
other than reducing the value of the cash Awards by
published notice.
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How to Enter the Contest:
Fill out the nomination blank for yourself or friend and send same to The Richmond Virginian
Contest Manager and subscription blanks, receipt books and necessary instructions will be furnished.
Candidates may nominate themselves.
Each contestant is entitled to 5,000 credits, which will be issued on receipt of nomination blank.
Only one nomination blank to be credited to each contestant. Every contestant receives 10 per cent,
commission on each subscription secured. In mailing remittance deduct 10 per cent, from amount.
It is not necessary to be a subscriber to The Richmond Virginian to enter the contest. It
will cost you nothing to enter. When you have entered you w811 become sji enthusiast and will thor
oughly enjoy participating in the contest. All that it is necessary to do it order to en'/er is to send in
your name or get some one to do it for you. (See nomination blhnk.) AfOer entering v isit your friends
and ask them to subscribe for the Virginian and help you secune a cash reward.
Get you friends to work for you, It will only require a few hours’ work eacyh day. $500 cash
means the establishing of a substantial bank account, and 10 percent, cpnamission on all subscriptions
secured means a salaried compensation for the time consumed in callLog on you* friends.
Division of Districts.
In order to equalize compensation so that each and every contest
ant will have an equal opportunity to earn one of the cash awards,
the Btate of Virginia has been divided into 6 districts, vis.:
DISTRICT NO. I.
Embraces Greater Richmond, Barton Heights, Brookland Fark,
Ginter Park, Chestnut Hill. Highland Park, Forest Hill Swanns
boro. Oak Grove, Woodland Heights and Fulton, South Richmond
and F surmount.
DISTRICT NO. 2.
Embraces the State of Virginia at large, excluding the territory
embraced in District No. 1.
DsSTRICT NO.
Embraces the following counties, vis.:
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Buckingham, Powhatan. Appomattox,
Prince George, Nottoway, Charlotte,
Brunswick, Mecklenburg, Sussex,
Southampton, Nansemond. Princess Anne,
Cumberland, Chesterfield, (Excluding the territory
braced in District No. 1.)
Amelia, Prince Edward, Dinwiddia,
Lunenburg, . £.UID':.
Greensville, Isle of Wight, Norfolk.
DISTRICT NO. 4.
Embrace* the following counties, vis.:
Bath, Ne&on, Amherst,
Craig, Campbell, Roanoke,
Franklin, Pulaski, Patrick,
Banld, Carroll, Lee.
Scott, * Washington, Dickenson,
Buchanan, Rockbndga, Alleghany,
Botetrout, Bedford, - Giles
Montgomery, Pittsylvania, Floyd,
Henry. Wythe, Grayson,
Wise, Russell, dmyth,
Tazewell,
DISTRICT NO. 3.
Embraoea the following oountiea, viz.:
Highland, Albemarle, Greene,
Shenandoah, Madison, Rappahannock,
Prince William,
Augusta,
Page,
\\ arron,
Frolcrick, Loudoun,
Rockingham, < >r»nge,
< 'ulpeper, Fauquier,
Clarke, Fair! ax,
DISTRICT NO. 6.
Embrace* the following counties, viz.
Fluvanna,
Caroline,
King and Queen
Middlesex,
Warwick,
Louisa,
King George,
Richmond,
Charles City,
Northampton,
Spottsylvania.
Henrico, (Excluding
in District No. I.)
■Westmoreland,
New Kent,
Mathewa,
iStaiford,
King William,
1 .ancestor,
York,
Goochland,
the territory
embraced
Northumberland,
James City,
Accomac.
Hanover,
Essex,
Gloucester,
Elizabeth City,
Division of Awards.
District No. 1. Award No. 1.
$500.00 cash. In addition to 10 per cent, commission on all
subscriptions secured, will be awarded to the person
resident of District No. 1, who securss the largest
number of credits.
District No. I. Award No. 2.
$100.00 cash, In addition to 10 per cent, commission on all
subscriptions secured, will be awarded to the person
resident of District No. 1, who secures the second
largest number of credits.
District No. 2. Award No. 1.
$500.00 cash, in addition to 10 per cent, commission on all
subscriptions secured, will be awarded to the person
resident of District No. 2, who secures the largest
number of credits.
District No. 2. Award No. 2.
$100.00 cash, in addition to 10 per cent, commission on all
subscriptions secured, will be awarded to the person
resident of District No. 2, who secures the second
largest number of credits.
DISTRICT NO. 3.
$200.00 cash, in addition to 10 per cent, commission on all
(subscriptions secured, will be awarded to the person
resident of District No. 3, who secures the largest
number of credits.
DISTRICT NO. 4.
$200.00 cash, in addition to 10 per cent, commission on all
subscriptions secured, will be awarded to the person
resident of District No. 4, who secures the largest
number of credits.
DISTRICT NO. 5.
$200.00 cash, in addition to 10 per cent, commission on all
subscriptions secured, will be awarded to the person
resident of District No. 5, who secures the largest
number of credits.
DISTRICT NO. 6.
$200.00 cash, in addition to 10 per cent, commission on all
subscriptions secured, will be awarded to the person
resident of District No. b, who secures the largest
number of credits.
Contestants resident of Districts Nos. 3, 4, 5 and 6 and these
districts only, are eligible to the grand State award of $500
in addition to the district award of $200.
How Credits Will Be Issued.
Credits are secured in this contest by paying your subscription in
advance. New subscriptions count twice as many credits as old
ones. (See schedule Mow.)
Candidates are not restricted to getting subscriptions in their own
particular district. But map secure subscription4 in any pari of the
X'nr tod States, and if cash accompanies the order, credit certificates
will be issued in accordance with schedule printed below. Candi
dates In one district are not competing with candidates in other
districts, etcept for the grand award in Districts Nos. 3, 4; 5 and 0.
The division of districts, as outlined, so equalizes competition that
every contestant has an equal chance to secure a grand award.
Besides credit allowed on subscriptions, a coupon good for a certian
number of credits will be published in each issue of The Richmond
Virginian unless otherwise notified. The first w'eek these coupons
will be good for 20 credits, the second week 10 credits, the third
week and thereafter 5 credits. These coupons can be voted by any
one regardless of subscriptions. Each coupon will be limited, and
must be in the office of The Richmond Virginian before the expira
tion date printed, on each crnJpim. The first coupon appeared June
27, 1910, and counts 20 ere dirts,_
Credits cannot be purchitsed in this contest, but can only be se
cured on paid-in-advance subscriptions or by clipping the daily
coupons.
Declining Credit Scale.
Credits will be, allowed pn all prepaid eubscriptivfis during the
three voting periods, as follows:
First Period—From Jtfne 27, tflO to July Si, 1910.
3 years’ subscription.
2 years’ subscription.
1 years’ subscription.
6 months’ subscription
3 months’ subscription...
Bail.
Price.
*12.00
8.00
4-00
2 00
1.00
By New
Carrier. Subs.
Price. Credits.
*9.00
6.00
3.00
1.50
40.000
30.000
12.000
5.000
Old.
Subs.
Credits.
20.000
15,000
6,000
2,500
.75 2,000 1,000
Second Period—From August I, 191® to August 31.
By By New
Mail. Carrier. Subs.
Price. Price. Credits.
3 years4subscription,. *12.00 J9.00-1- 35,000
2 yeeiVtiubscription.. 8.00 6.00
1 years’subscription. 4.00 3.00
6 months’subscription. 2.00 1.50
3 months* subscription. 1.00 .57
25.000
10.000
4.000
1.000
1910.
Old.
Subs.
Credits.
17.500
12.500
5.000
2.000
500
ThtrtfPeriod—Prom September 1, 191® to September 3®, 191®.
By
Mail.
Price.
3 vears’tsubeeription. $12.00
2 years’ (subscription. 8.00
1 year’slsubscription. 4.00
6 months’ subscription. 2.00
8 months,1 subscription. 1.00
By New
Carrier. Subs.
Price. Credits.
*9 00 25,000
8.00 20,000
3.00 8,000
1.60 3,000
_ _ .75 1,000
The Richmond Virginian's Exclusive Carrier Service covers
Greater'Richruond and Suburbs; Ashland, Petersburg and Williams
burg. —
Old.
Subs.
Credits.
12,500
10,000
4,000
1,500
500
The First Announcement of the Standing of Contestants Will Be Published
July 9,1910, and Thereafter Twice Each Week During the Firjst Voting Period.
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CUT OUT THIS NOMINATION BLANK.
AND SEND TO THE “CONTEST MANAGER” OF THE RICHMOND VIRGINIAN. RICHMOND. VA.
EACH CONTESTANT IS ENTITLED TO ONE NOMINATION ONLY.
GOOD FOR S.ftM CREDITS.
THE RICHMOND VIRGINIAN’S CASH AWARD CONTEST.
NOMINATION BLANK.
I hereby nominate
Me., Mm., or Min...
(iVom« of ConUetant.)
Street No....................................................
Town or City...
At a candidate in The Richmond Virginian’s Cash Award Contest
Signed
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(Name of Sender.)
Address.
Town.
Date.
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THIS NOMINATION OOUNT8 5,000 CREDITS—Only one nomination to be credited to each contestant. Under no cir
enmetaneea will the nominator's name be divulged.
placing subscription use this ballot and credit certifi
cate will be issued.
SUBSCRIPTION BALLOT.
THB RICHMOND VIRGINIAN, Richmond, Va.
Inclosed findk...Dollar*.....Cent* for
subscription to The Richmond Virginian.
For.....
Street Address.
Town
State..........
CREDIT CONTESTANT.
Name...
Town.State.
With. ...credit* as per schedule.
Write or cell (it the Contest Department of The Richmond Virginian, corner Ross and Governor street*, Richmond, Van for Subscription Blanks, Receipt
Books and Instructions. Phone Madison 1756. /
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