Fifty Pounds for a Guess.
Observer, Volume XI, Issue 671, 7 November 1891, Page 11
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Fifty Pounds for a Guess.
An ordinary Walker's whisky bottle tiaip| been completely filled with Dr. Fletcher's;|j Piils, securely corked with a cork one ineh%s into the neck and sealed and placed in the^f! charge of the Commercial Bank, NewtownvJ* Sydney. No living soul linons Iwm many'lt pills tlie bottle contains. We agree ,to Xi divide £50 (fifty pounds) in prizes for the - nearest guesses as to the number of pills contained in the bottle as follows : — One present of £25 for the nearest guess. ! i> »» >> £10 for the next nearest guess. ? : „ £5 for the next nearest guess. £4 for the next nearest guess. » », »£3 for the next nearest guess. * „ £2 for the next nearest guess. i, ..£1 for the next nearest guess. Conditions : —We make no charge for the guess, but only purchasers of Dr. ■■: Fletcher's Bilious and Liver Pills are eligible to compete and'the gueßs must be written on one of our printed forms, one of which is wrapped around every shilling' box leaving our laboratory after this date. In case two or more persons guess the correct number, the one first to hand will get the £25 and the next guess to hand : gets the £10 and so on. In case nobody ' guesses the correct number, the nearest r guess gets ihe first present of £25. ■ Fletcher's pills are sold at one shilling per ": box everywhere by chemists, storekeepers and patent medicine vendors, or we will , send a box with guess form for 13 penny stamps of any colony. All guesses will be entered in a book and numbered as received. The bottle - will be opened on January Ist, 1b92, and the presents Bent out at once to the lucky , guessers. This competition is a perfectly bona fide affair and arranged for the purpose of introducing Dr. Fletcher's Pills, so there can be no appeal from our decision.
