Anecdote Competion

          A PRIZE OF HALF-A-CROWN
                             is offered
For the most Amusing Local PARAGRAPH,
             INCIDENT, or ANECDOTE,
Sent in to reach the "Gazette" Office on Tuesday
                  morning every week.

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    The following note has been received from the
4th March prize winner: --

    Dear Uncle Sam, I was very pleased with the
prize I won on the 4th of March -- a mantelpiece
clock form W. Collis, Lowther-street--for which
I return many thanks. --I remain, you loving
nephew,
                            Jonathan SHEPHERD.

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The following note has been received form last
week's prize winner: --

    Dear Uncle Sam,  I was very much pleased
when I saw I had won the prize last week.
Would you kindly send me an order on Mr. R. M.
Taggart, 60, King-street.  Thanking you very
much. --I remain, your loving nephew,

                                        John Henry WARWICK,
                                                            Seascale.
21st March, 1897
The order has been forwarded.

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