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Title: The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 17, March 4, 1897
A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
Author: Various
Release Date: March 14, 2005 [EBook #15358]
Language: English
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THE GREAT ROUND WORLD
AND WHAT IS GOING ON IN IT
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. MARCH 4, 1897 Vol. 1. NO. 17
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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
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The Great Round World Prize Competitions
OPEN TO SUBSCRIBERS ONLY.
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For Commercial Maps of the United States.
THE GREAT ROUND WORLD offers five prizes, each to be a book
costing not over $2.50, and _to be selected by the winners_, for each of
the best five commercial maps of the United States, to be sent in before
February 1st. These maps are to be filled in, without assistance, by the
contestants; Klemm's Relief Map of the United-States to be used for this
purpose; one of these Relief Maps will be sent without charge to any
subscriber who wishes to compete. Directions for the competition will be
found in THE GREAT ROUND WORLD, No. 4, under story of "Pioneer
Settlers of Marietta, Ohio."
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For the Best Set of Political Maps.
NORTH AMERICA, SOUTH AMERICA, EUROPE, ASIA, AND AFRICA.
One set will be sent without charge to any yearly subscriber who
wishes to compete.
A pair of skates will be given to the boy or girl who will fill in and
send the most complete set of political maps of the five continents by
February 1st. These maps are to be the Klemm's Relief Maps, and the
political divisions are to be re
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