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About The Eugene City guard. (Eugene City, Or.) 1870-1899 | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1897)
j'lwm.- M SLvnaaEomaxiMsaia The Sensation Of the Season is the Ok ARirFIR RTOYnT.TT! Mr Long says it is a daisv, and it is as line a wheel as I sver saw. The Barker iovca. Mr Fisher said it looks all right, Barker. I don t know anything about a bicycle to speak of, but it sandy looks all right. The Marker Bicycle. Mr llemenway says it looks as well as any lie ever saw. Don't see why it isn't just as good. 1K likes it. He says it is so easy to mount or dismount. Learn to ride a Bike. Barker will teach you. Guarantees to learn gentlemen in 59 minutes so thev can ride a bicycle. Trice, 75 cents and wheel furnished. Will teach ladies for 50 cents an hour. Wheels 25 cents per hour. Ladies in bloomers will learn to ride in one or two hours. Ladies in short dresses two to four hours. Ladies in long dresses, four to ten hours. Careful instruc tion given and the most possible pains taken with students. We make no charge to parties buying bicycles of us, when the sale affords a profit to us. The t-ilent steed of steel, next thing to tho flying machine. You ride on air. I have in mind the Barker Bicycle. Ladies and gentlemen, it's all right. Van Buren says it runs remarkably smooth. Mr Frank says it is much prettier than the 97 Sterns, The Barker Bicvcle. I-1' it. PEOPLE WHO PURCHASED BARKER BICYCLES Last year are well pleased with their mount They are silent, run easily, and are the PINK FELLOWED KIND. THE BARKER BICYCLE. Mr. ('. ('. Matlock says The BABKKK Bicycle i all it. runs right. "1 can't see anything the matter with 1 like the handle I ars." Mr. Geo M Miller says it is all right. You bet it don't make any iioUe, runs tine I, ikes the spring in the handle bars and that eiv rijjid frame vorv much. Mr. Al Kinkcndall sas 'I lie BARK hK is all right and run- tine. Mr. .1. A. Iloaeh s.ivs; "It is the finest running wheel i i - .i. i... . .L 1 wus tho best wheel was tine The Barker Bicycle 1M a i ft I VI lit miitr nun. WW 8 i The arker If J 7 vn . to T 2 ?bfc mi) I'H1 Oltl'OllI IllJ Willi At f cntioi W hercrer Shown unr icycle. If you buy an eastern made Bicycle, and something goes wrong with it, you must pay express both ways some times it costs $0.00 or $7.00.' and sometimes you have to wait a month or six weeks for its return, when you buy a Barker Bicycle if any thing goes wrung you have it fixed here you save tho express and the time, all Barker Bicycles are guaranteed for one year and we will see that you are properly taken care of, if you want one you will have toget your order in quick, or you will be too late. The Barke, Bicycle For sale at Barker Gun Works. Cycle bells '20c 2."c SOc 75c and $1.00 Graphite 10c l"e rubber patches fie sheet and rubber solution 5c 10c 25e all kinds of bicycle tires at bed rock prices cyclometers 1.00 1.23 1.5U2.00 cycle pumps re pair kets vemoid cycle saddles spokes nipples chains and everything pertaining to bicycles. We make a specialty of fine bicycle repairing, we do the best in the state, we re pair all kinds of bicycles, all makes and styles we can make your old wheels loot good and run fine. Weknow howour prices for work are the same as eastern pu, uu a pynrom nh.irirrts wu will nive vou rood value in the repair line. Remember the Narker'lhcyclu you get this year at wholesale prices, The Ladies, All niiroe Tin I It t it very handionn thing to (. ruiI ma y. SOW MR BXRKKK, Vi if or 'TTiKEKI. I'KOl'DOF IT " ... THE ... BARKER BICYCLE. cpress charges we will give you good value in the no. Remember the Barker Bicycle you get this Some of the reasons why ycu should buy a Birker Bicycle: Flmt-It lit w nh Ton Yon rn It for Yon vp $r. make 'em. aril ihem to you, yn only hate one I'roilt to 1 ou them". I n n Ton lllol-ervcthe areoi, it. WI1AI. I""""" H,KrftlhTB.!cr..r... on.-, m w-II m food looker, Bmi i I f I irl.. mid "v .1. r irl tlo'y Kltr.rt lh tl . F,nk Fllloa Bn- olo, lu. they r. Thi mcYrlIi I ever rode. 1 thought the Columbia on earth, but The BAB K I B beats it. Mr. Howard Bowland raid The BABKKU ami compared with other wheels it ranks high. Dr ( Mii.'sh. t says it is tho easiest running whool he ever rode. " I m't se.) why you shouldn't get thoso wheels before the public. Th v run nico; tho design and stylo is tine, his a go 1 1 looker." Mr. Will llollenheck says it is an excellent wheel. Mr. Kincaid says it looks right, feels right and runs right. The Barker Bicycle. Look out boys, there comes a runaway train, (), excuso ,me it is only a common bicvcle. Boys you can bet that ! rider nuver saw the Barker ltieycle. If he had, ho would ! buv on? at once. E B ill' '1 W r t d!$r2 iHMHHMni Tvrzxrz. mmi mm i inn mum ARROVVWAKNA .71:, tS WW m I iff McKinley says: "PATKONIZE HOME I.MiL'bTRV. WhTnottrTlttijtuTliiim IUHK'EK Dl- (. . CVI I.K. Vo l lte twoprolH' lid l'vi- tlm J. - oilwr profll tt home. o yon nil ji-l Kiiim f Iwneflt ol It. Burknr h. not It llehullt :ttirre houw In EiiKina. How many honwi ' havu the mm who inak wlofN in Nfw Vork bult In KuKfjni-. Cin't su lt tht fllni? Ihloaworia your hontat couil'ler-ation. In the' Barker Bicycle each and all bearings aro nicely ".round and polirhn'l after luing haidiMil and t( nipt red, thuHjashi.-ting a HiKioth, t ai-y running bearing. All parts are caerfully im-ptctfd iiil areof the best material. All of these minor details tn w in the running qualities of the machine, ami the riders all agree that it is tho pink of per fection, runs very fact, swift and easy. To make a good bicycle it rn pi ires pains. This is what wo have taken, and if you ride one of our w heels you will ecc. It will tdiow you we have taken the pains to make it good. They are also graceful and handsome. 'J bey rank with the ?1C0 kind, but we cell tlu m lor less. On our ladies' wheels the aluminum chain guards are a hit in tho right direction; looks well, ha no lacing to break, no wood to split. They are only put on high grade wheels. Ours are high grade. Barki-Hiieycles are good value. We expect to soU inero next year than this; each vear a few more. That is tho ay we grow, If wedidn t gi ve good value this year next year we couldn't do business in wheels; but we exnect to do more business in 'M than this year, for the people will then know more about our Bicycles. I'lea-e read other peoples opinion on the Barker Bicycle. They have tried them. All Barker Bicycles aro made of .'-ply tubing, double tension. This tubing is harder to work, but we use it bo vausf wo think its the best, and the best is none too good for our Bicvch's. r,imMxuar,mtiivriimmimmammmt o o o o MQtwv 1 3Lfr- a