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The Century Co.

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Parent Issue
Day
28
Month
July
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Century Co. Announces an educational competition. It is on a most interesting and original plan. Thirty-flve prizes, amounting 81,000 (first prize $500), will be given for the best answers to 350 questions. The topics selected deal with matters of general information; they are not scholastic, but are educational. Your training at school was only mental drill; you inay have forgotten all you learned qjj frf there but "reading, writing and arithmetic." tpl, UUU You will never forget the information derived from answering these questions, because every IN 35 PRIZES one deals with a living and useful fect. No cube-roots, no parsing, no memorizing of dates; instead the learning of things that everybody ought to know. If you make an honest attempt to win, you will learn to concéntrate your mind, sharpen your wits, QOfl secure most valuable information, and stand a pOvJU good chance of making $500 (perhaps $1,000: rTDC,T DDT7T7 see below). If you gain fírst prize, the rlKM rnlJi ledge you have acquired will be worlh more to you than the 8500 you receive. To find the answers to these questions you must use the encylopedic material in The Century Dictionary and SMALL MONTHLY Cyclopedia, because these like thousands of others can best be answered by reference to T-QirmCk'n'f'O this great work. If you do not already possess Jr (ajj IIloIlL'u. a set, you can easily procure one. A limited number of clubs are now being formed for the purchase of sets at the lowest wholesale price. Each person joining ing a club (and those who apply at once can join) secures his set at a reduction of 40 per cent, and has the further privilege of paying for it in small monthly payments. A first payment of $5.00 will bring you the work and enable you to try tor the first prize of 8500, as well as the supplementary prize of 8500 more. The 150 questions are divided into three sets of 50 each. A month is allowed to answer each set. Try T"i-, ppntnpv them at home. They will be an intellectual AI1" VtJIllury recreation for you and your family; also a good DictiOHSPV test of your ability to deal with words and facts. and Have your children try them; it will be a real f'WrrílnnÉkrliEi education for them. Write to us for sample VyClOptiClle, questions, to see how instructive and useful they are, or for a descrip' tion of the work. $5OO MORE. We offer a further prize of $600 to the competitor who, laying aside The Century, answers, and answers most successfully, 90 per cent o these questions from ten other works of reference, no matter in how many volume each is pvblished. This offer is made for the purpose of showing that The Century is superior not to any one other work of reference, but to any ten others. (Dep't K. o.) New York.

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