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Show CONTEST SPREADS OGDEN'S INPLUENCE v .Standard, in Giving Away an Automobile and Other Valuable Prizes, Aims to Reach Out Into the Territory Tributary' - to This City and in That Way More Extensively Exten-sively Advertise Ogden. Tomorrow tho Evening Standard starts Its great subscription contest, A young lady will probably call on every subscriber of the Standard and ask you to pay up your back subscription, sub-scription, if you owe anything, and to pay your current subscription to her. Treat her courteously and, If Bhe presents pre-sents her case well grant her request. re-quest. If you feel enough interest in the young lady's ambition to win one of the big prizes, holp her without injuring yourself. The main purpose of this comment is to tell you that tho object of our big contest, In which we glvo away a first class five-passenger automobile automo-bile and pianos, diamonds, gold watches, watch-es, etc., 1b to more thoroughly cover that part of Utah naturally tributary to Ogdon It Is our intention to have the Evening Standard circulate in that part of the country whore It will do the most good for Ogden and her business interests. Take the country 20 to 100 miles north, west and east of Ogden and the greater part of the trade goes to Salt Lake, though It naturally belongs to Ogden. We want the people of Ogden to help get Ogden papers clr- dilated In the country east, north and west of Ogden Ten years ago tho Standard gave a similar contest and several hundred yearly subscriptions were sent to the far east. Wo believe It would bo bettor bet-tor to have tho papers sent to friends within 100 miles of Ogdon Instead of to Now Yorlu We notice the chamber of commerce in an eastern city Hub-scribed Hub-scribed for 1,000 daily yearly aub-Bcrlptlons aub-Bcrlptlons and had them sent to people peo-ple vho should trade with tho homo city, but who traded with a moro distant dis-tant city. Newspapers are the life of any city. Newspapers do more for a city than any othor one thing We want the people of the Intormountaln country to get into closer relations with Ogden. Og-den. Now' then. If any of the young ladleB participating in our big contest appeal to you for aid and you decide to help her with a year's subscription, have the paper sent to friends within 100 miles of Ogdon rather than to parties beyond that limit. The Ogdon papers should circulate more generally away from home, and the Ogden people should help to boost their home papers. |