17 January 1931
Brooklyn Standard Union

LUCKY READERS WIN $5,400
School Teacher Awarded First Prize of $3,000
  
The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow was discovered today by 
Thirty-three lucky readers of the Standard Union with the announcement of the 
prize winner in the Missing Words Contest, which has been entertaining 
thousands for the past two months.
  
The prizes meant many things to many people,health or wealth or whatever 
the individual's personal idea of happiness is.
   ''I'm quite dazed'', said Mrs.Mildred ABRAHAMS,of 239 Ocean avenue,when 
informed today, in her modest three room apartment, that she would receive a 
check for $3,000 for the first prize.
    
The judges in the contest were; 
Aaron L.JACOBY, Sheriff of Kings County, 
a prominent banker and executive of charitable institutions; 
Prof. S.Marion TUCKER, of Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute's English department; 
Dr.John H.REB, a well-known physician of 16 South Portland avenue. 

And the winners are;
  First Prize--$3,000                                                         
     ERROS
Mrs.Mildred ABRAHAMS,  239 Ocean avenue.....69 

  Second Prize--$750
Charles HIRSHFELD,  1270 Forty-third street......69 1/2

  Third Prize--$350
M. E. NEWMAN,  1354  East Twenty-seventh street.....70

  Fourth Prize--$200
J.P.WHEELER,  779 East Thirty-second street....70 1/2

  Fifth Prize--$100
William J. PETERSON,  416 Charlotte place, Glendale, L.I....71

   Sixth to Thirteenth Prizes--$50 Each
Julia A.HOPKINS,  1821 East Fifteenth street......71 1/2
Mrs.Olga SCHULTZ,  104-37  128th street, Richmond Hill.....72
Frank A.WARWICK,  218 Cucumber street.....72 1/2
Louis N.FELPEL,  399 Sixth avenue.... 73
Miss Frances MISCHKIND,  135 Clarkson avenue....... 73
Charles J.CORNELL,  8732 165th street, Jamaica...... 73
Harold ANDERSON,  259 Reid avenue....73
Miss Mary PITTS,  89 Crooke avenue.....74
Miss Dorothy DRESSING,  33 Hillside ave, Rockville Centre....... 74
Walter A.CARLEY,  1550 Brooklyn avenue....74
Matthew PURCELL,  193 North Henry street....74
Mrs.G.F.GANSSLE,  3306 Avenue S.... 74

      Fourteenth to Twenty-first Prizes--$25 Each
H.A. MOFFAT,  379 Grand avenue...75
Mrs.Lauritz LAURITZEN,  893 East Nineteenth street....75
Erwin M.ROTHMAN,  408 Howard avenue........75
Raymond G.D. PALMER,  134 Berkeley place.......75
Lilla M.PRINCE, 20 Woodruff avenue......75
Madeline G. BODKIN,  897 Lafayette avenue....75
T.J.MORRIS,  975 Ocean avenue.......76
Harry L.EDELSON,  219 East Ninety-fifth street......76
Mary ANDING,  104-35  128th street,Richmond Hill....76
John A.HEELY,Jr,  1969 Brown street......76
George J.CARROLL,  72 State street.......76
Mildred HARTMAN,  9301 Foster avenue....76
Bertha WOLFE,  926 St.Marks avenue.....76
Mrs.Helen E.DAVIS,  109-27  200th street, Hollis, L.I.......76
Ada B.WOOD,  148 Shepherd avenue.......76
Charles J.ERNST,  1107 Putnam avenue.....76

NOTE;
Persons were scored with a half error when an extra missing word was 
added at the end of a sentence when there was no blank space calling for a word.

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