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About The Omaha guide. (Omaha, Neb.) 1927-19?? | View Entire Issue (May 15, 1937)
GIGANTIC-EDUCATIONAL Open to All Subscribers to The Omaha Guide a VALUABLE PRIZES 5 Grand Prizes and 16 Weekly prizes First Prize-1937 Ford V-8 Sedan Now on Display at Hinneman Garage-24th and Lake Sts. * I How to Enter Thousands of citizens have subscribed for The Omaha Guide in the years gone by and discovered that they made a worth while investment: They have found that they get more news of their friends and events in which they are interested prin ted in the manner they would like to have it, the Omaha Guide than in any other like p ublication: In order to create a greater in terest and better understanding of the purpose and advantages offer ed to communities supportin their group publications, the Omaha Guide is sponsoring an educational contest intended to bring out all of the hundreds of real reasons WHY COLORED CITIZENS SHOULD SUPPORT THEIR NEWSPAPER. As an additional in centive toward having subscribers send in their ideas about “Why the Colored Citizens Should Sub scribe for The Omaha Guide,” The Omaha Guide will give the new 1937 V-8 60 Ford now on display in the front window of Hinejnan’s Garage, 2417 No. 24th street. The OMAHA GUIDE 6,000 New Subscribers Campaign Word Sentence Contest For the best reason given to— WHY: The Colored Citizen Should Subscribe to fche Omaha Guide. OR WHY: I Read the Omaha Guide. To be elegible simply follow these easy rules: 1. Finish tihc contest sentence about the Omaha Guide, writing 25 additional words or less on a sheet of paper. 2. Be sure to print your name and address plainly on the certifi eate to be found at top of front page. 8. Attach to your entry $2.00 preferably in money order form, which will entitle you tot a years subscription to the Omaha Guide. 4. Mail your entry or turn over to a Guide representative on or be fore the evening of September 17, 1937. If you choose to mail, send same to Contest Editor, Circulation Dept., 2418 Grant. St, Omaha, Nebr.. 5. Sentences will be judged from sincerity and interest. 6. Your name will be recorded in tho contest ledger opposite the number found o.n your receipt and your contest sentence sheet bear ing same number will be turned over to contest judges, who will not be allowed to see the name of contestant. Their only identifica tion will be your number. 7. The contest will be subject to •• all previsions of federal, state and local laws and regulations, Omaha Guide employers and employees and their relatives are not eligible to enter the contest. 8. All entries and contents there of become the property of the Oma ha Guide. Example “The colored citizens should sub subscribe to the Omaha Guide, be cause it carries all church, social, Fraternal, home and much national news; it al«o aids in bringing about ecanomical freedom REMEMBER — Complete sentences should not be more thfe<n 25 words: There is no limit to the number of sentries you may submit but each entry must be accompanied by one year's sub scription to The Omaha Guide : If your* present subscription has not expired, you may pay up your netrt year in advance: — I First Prize ^ \ Purchased from J. V. Thorndike Motor Company Some Facts About The Guide To Assist You In Writing Contest Sentences Esablished ten years. — Eight pages weekly: published every, week for ten years._ Employs an average of ten or more race citizens the year round. Printed and published completely in Nebraska's first and only Negro publishing house. _ Carries news releases, illustrations, and special feature items from Amenica's foremost writers and artists._ rfas led several successful fights for community betterment. An independent newspaper. Prints all news matter free of charge Caters to all classes of readers. _ It's Easy Contest sentences will be judged, on their simplicity—no famcy writing or answers! are necessary to win thjis contest. Everyone has an equal chance to win. A sentence as simple as this may win you the first prize1 — Colored iitizens should subscribe to The Omaha Guide because it carries more ' news about colored Omaha than any other newspaper." OR THIS _ I read The Onfaha Guide because it has always printed my club and ohurch, news. OR THIS “I read The Omaha Guide because it is the only do;) IV11 „ able Negro newspaper published in Omaha during the. past ten years.” OR THIS ‘ ‘ Colored citizens should subscribe to The Omaha Guideu as a cdvio duty.” •* • —• . • Entry Blank Top of Front Page Out out, complete signature, and mail oil bring in with subscrip tion fee and contest sentence. A Year's Subscription to The Guide Is A Worthwhile Investment