3-082-701 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Advertisement - request for authors by the "Chicago Record" newspaper, 1895. 'TO AUTHORS FOR 'STORIES of MYSTERY' The Chicago Record offers to authors the sum of $30,000 for original stories written in English, no parts of which have ever been heretofore published. The offer is made upon the following conditions: $20,000 will be paid in twelve cash prizes for the best twelve stories...First Prize - $10,000; Second Prize - 3,000; Third Prize - 1,500; Fourth Prize - 1,000; Fifth Prize - 800; Two Prizes of $600 each - 1,200; Five Prizes of $500 each - 2,500. Making a total of $20,000...$10,000 additional will be paid at space rates for stories of accepted value, but which may not be awarded any of the twelve cash prizes. The stories submitted in this competition are required to be "stories of mystery," in other words, stories in which the mystery is not explained until the last chapter, in order that readers may be offered prizes for guessing the solution of the mystery in advance of its publication. The stories must reach The Chicago Record at its office of publication. 181, Madison Street, Chicago, Ill., before Oct. 1, 1895, and the awards will be made as soon after that date as they can be read and judged...VICTOR F. LAWSON, Publisher'. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.