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Show THIRD DAY OF 1 BIG CONTEST I Boys and Girls Contirrue to Answer the Standard's Ques- tions and Thereby Obtain Free 1 Tickets to the Orpheum Shows 1 New Watchword in This Evening's Paper. Tho hecond day's contest for tho 1 Orpheum free tickets was oven more H liitortuting than tho fhst day Ab on R tho first day, tho buslneBB office wah crowded with young people who had their answers ready. Many of them, I however, mado a mistake In giving B Admiral Paul Jones as tho naval ofti- R cor, who sent the famous message In- u stead of Commander Ollior H. Perry This, of course, was wrong. j The best answer received was by j Lowell RIdgoB, aged 12, residence 3162 Adams avenue, which was the j correct answer and Is as Xillows: Orpheum Ticket Contest I "Captain Oliver Hazard Perry, an 0 American naval officer, sent tho fol- I lowing message to General William Henry Harrison, In 1813, when the I Americana wero at war with tho Brit- I ish. 'Wo have met the enemy and they aro ouri. two ships, two brigs, 1 ouo schooner and one sloop.' (Signed) g LOWELL RIDGES, Age, 12 " Tho matter for tho contest as usual, for tomorrow evening's free tickets, as fl In tho past will appear in the classl- fled page. I This evening, somewhere in tho 1 classified pago, will be found the I words uttered by an American naval 1 officer who was killed In battle. Just H beforo the close of the battle, the K American nav.il officer was killed and beforo dying ho uttered words that became tho watch word of all Amev- y lean naval officers, acamen and mar- I Ines during that war The battle took E place on tho Atlantic ocean, not far R from Boston, Mass , in June, 1813. B Great care should be oxerclBed In this contest because various other B naval officers during the year 1812 as well as the Revolutionary war, wero credltod with having uttered tho watch word or seutlment referred to. Even Commandor Oliver H. Peery, in his great battle on tho lakes, used the battle cry. or watch word Evo:y child, who has studied United States hlston, should be ablo to remember this wntch word. This evening again the Orpheum theater will give Its groat Wild West show, two long reels and sevoral vaudeville acts in, addition. Tonight's show will be especially Interesting to the children Don't guess Iook ap your history and provo your answor correct |