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A Great Contest Closed

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Parent Issue
Day
10
Month
June
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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A wTittog conté -t covering the entire United States has just closed. 4 little orrer 30 daj-s ago B. M. Osborne & Oo., Auburn, X. Y., ofíered $15 ;n jold t; the person ■writing trlie greateist mrnlter o; 011 a card íui-nisli'ed ly tliem, this sentence, ■Osl;o:'up ImplemntB succeed where others fail" ani $10 in gold to the person Btirtunitttns theeecond best card. CarSa rime írom all parts of the country and not a few ■vritten in Germán. SeandmaTian, shortliand. etc. Thie first prize was won by Miss Lizzie X?u. o; WSetilagtpo, Kas. The seco-nd priz?. hy Mr. L. A. Saimders oí Hamburg, Mica., whose picture we her e give. Miss Neu wrote the stmttvm-e 1122 times and Mr. Saunders 841 timen. Ry flgurlng up, we finil thftt Mt. Saunder's card contalns over 5,000 words a;ad more tlian 32,000 lett-ers. This is somethiog wióoderful -vhen you consider that -ilvese oa.rdií are no larger than au ordmary poteta. All in all in this conteet over a million words -were snbmitted in eprapetition fortheprize, u say nofchiñg oí the many eiforts that neyenr reaehed the ofiice of D. M. Osborne & Co. Tlie tennis ehampioiiship of the Univereity was won by Seabury, wlio deïeated Herrick, last year's champion, after live sets of right close playing.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Courier