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Show $10,000 FOR IO0JORDS $10,000 for an Idea, Which You Muat Tell in 100 Words or Less. There will be no second prize. Only one first prize of $10,000 fop the man, woman or child who gives the best Idea to finish "The Million Dollar Mystery!" $10,000 for an Idea. $10,000 for 100 wordt. Read the conditions: The Ogden Standard begins next Saturday the publication of "The Million Mil-lion Dollar Mystery." a mysterx story for the solution of which a prize of $10,000 will be given The Btory will run for- twenty-two consecutive weeks In the Saturday Ogden Standard. As each shapter appears in The Standard a two reel film corresponding with it may be 6een at the Orpheum tbe following fol-lowing Wednesday Bv this arrangement arrange-ment with the Thanhousor Film corporation cor-poration it will be possible for Standard Stand-ard readers both to read the stor and see the moving pictures of it as it progresses from week to week The first film will be released on July first Each week another will be released re-leased until Wednesday November 25 Conditions Governing the Contest. The prize of $10,00(1 will be won b the man. woman, or child who writes the most acceptable solution of the mystery, from which the last' two reels of motion picture drama will be made and the last two chapters chap-ters of the story written by Harold McGrath. Solutions may be sent to the Than 1 houser Film corporation either at Chicago or New York, any time up to midnight, Dec. 14 They must be received not later than that (late, which will be Just three weeks after af-ter the last chapter appears in the Standard before the final solution is published A board of three Judges will deter- mine which of the manv solutionn re-' ceived is the most acceptable The judges are to be Harold Mac-1 Grath, Lloyd Ixmergan, author of the scenario; and Miss Mae Tinee of The Chicago Tribune. The judgment of this board will be absolute and final. Nothing of a literary nature will be considered in the decision, nor given any preference In the selection of the dinner of the I $10,000 prize. The last two reels. I which will give the most acceptable j solution to the mstery will be pre-' sented in the theater having this fea- 1 ture as soon as It Is practical to produce pro-duce the same The story correspond- ! ing to these motion pictures will ap-j pear in the newspapers co-incldental-ly. or as soon after the appearance of the pictures as practical With the last two reels will be shown the plc-t.ureg plc-t.ureg of the winner, his or her home, and other interesting features. Solutions to the mystery must not be more than 100 words long Here are Borne questions to bo kept In mind in connection with the mystery as an aid to a solution - No. 1 What becomes of the mil lionaire? No. 3 What becomes of the 000 ooii No. 3 Whom does Florence marrv? No. 4 What becomes of the Russian Rus-sian countess7 Nobody connected either directly or Indirectly with "The Million Dollar Mystery" will be considered as a contestant. |