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  "title": "$150 Cash Prizes: What Will Be the Population of Bend, Oregon, July 1, 1912? (1911-12-13)",
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  "notes": "The final printing. The contest had eleven weeks left to run and the company stopped advertising it. Read at this page's own image; the four printings are identical in wording.",
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      "The advertisement appears for the fourth time and never again. The contest closed on March 1 — eleven weeks after this page — so the company withdrew the offer from view while it was still open.",
      "It kept buying space. Through the winter and spring the Bend Park Company advertised lots weekly on page 2, at $10 down and $10 a month, and on 20 December it printed an open letter to the Bulletin's publisher claiming over 150 lots sold in a month and asking the paper to start a weekly real estate column. The contest is not mentioned in any of it.",
      "No result was ever printed. Every issue from the March 1 close through 14 August 1912 has been read for the award, the winner, the winning figure and the bank. The Bulletin never reported who won, or whether anyone did."
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    "quote": "$150 Cash Prizes\n\nWhat Will Be the Population of Bend, Oregon, July 1, 1912?\n\nThe 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?\n\nWe offer you a chance, without cost to yourself, to participate in the following prizes:\n\n$100 CASH, 1st Prize · $35 CASH, 2nd Prize · $15 CASH, 3rd Prize\n\nThis 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.",
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