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The contest, week two
The Bend Bulletin · November 29, 1911
In the story: 1. A city of two thousand, to 1912.
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The second of four printings, and the one that shows why this project does not quote machine transcriptions.
Unchanged from the week before: same column, same position on the editorial page, same setting of type, same words. Read at the page image rather than matched on the machine transcription — which is the whole reason this week is filed separately.
This page's transcription renders the railroads' outlay as $5,000,000. The page reads $25,000,000, the same figure as the other three weeks. Nothing about the advertisement changed; a digit fell out of the reading of it. Anyone comparing the four weeks on their transcriptions alone would find a discrepancy that is not there.
The address survives the same test. The transcription gives “fvC0-J61 Empire Building”; the page gives 860-861, which is the suite the company would print again in July 1912, two weeks after publishing the emblem.
From the source
$150 Cash Prizes
What Will Be the Population of Bend, Oregon, July 1, 1912?
The Hill and Harriman lines have spent $25,000,000 to reach Bend, the Spokane of Oregon. The first train over both roads ran in on November 1, 1911. The population then was 1,000. In eight months' time what will it be?
We offer you a chance, without cost to yourself, to participate in the following prizes:
$100 CASH, 1st Prize · $35 CASH, 2nd Prize · $15 CASH, 3rd Prize
This money has been deposited in the Scandinavian-American Bank of Seattle for this purpose.. For prize blanks, write BEND PARK COMPANY, 860-861 Empire Building, Seattle, Washington, or H. J. OVERTURF, Bend Park Co. Representative, Bend.