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    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
    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
    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
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    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

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      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 - Archive Classics

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Great Round World and What Is Going On

      In It, Vol. 1, No. 17, March 4, 1897, by Various

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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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

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GREAT ROUND WORLD AND ***

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      The Great Round World Prize Competitions

      OPEN TO SUBSCRIBERS ONLY.

      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.

      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 represented entirely by color, with an index on the margin of the maps to show which colors represent the different nations. The skates given as this prize may be selected by the winner.

      School and College Text-Books

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      At my New Store (FEBRUARY 1ST)

      3 & 5 West 18th Street

      The St. Ann Building

      With the greatly increased facilities I can now offer to my customers the convenience of an assortment of text-books and supplies more complete than any other in any store in this city. Books will be classified according to subject. Teachers and students are invited to call and refer to the shelves when in search of information; every convenience and assistance will be rendered them.

      Reading Charts, miscellaneous Reference Charts, Maps, Globes, Blackboards, and School Supplies at net prices singly or in quantity.

      All books removed from old store (more or less damaged by removal) will be closed out at low prices.

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      All books, etc., subject to approval

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      FORMERLY 59 FIFTH AVENUE

      Copyrighted 1897, By William Beverley

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