The extreme popularity of the Jewish Daily Bulletin’s Biggest News of the Week contests has been proved more than satisfactorily if the great quantity of letters that has poured into the contest mailbox and the splendid quality of these manuscripts are to be taken as criteria.
The winners of the Bulletin’s second Biggest Jewish News of the Week are announced today. They will share in the $100 in cash prizes to be distributed among readers and college and high school students.
In the non-student group the judges awarded two of the three prizes to out-of-town readers. At the same time they cited three letters for mention because of their excellent quality.
Samuel Adler, 5324 Tilden avenue, Brooklyn, is the first-prize winner in the non-student division. He will receive a cash award of twenty-five dollars for his winning letter on the Biggest Jewish News of the Week for the period from November 18 to November 23. His topic was the 318 Wandering Jews.
Two women came in for their share of the prizes. Miss Jessie Bogen Shohan, Maple Lane Farm, Rhinebeck, N. Y., won the second prize of ten dollars in the reader group with her fine letter on Gen. Smedley D. Butler.
The other woman in this division is Mrs. Minna C. Horowitz, of Sunbury, Pa., who earned third prize of five dollars by her letter on Gen. Butler.
Writers of letters cited by the judges for exceptional merit, although they receive no cash prizes, are Mrs. Dorothy Lindenberg of Brooklyn, Saul Shapiro of Auburn,
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