THE UNITED AMERICAN
Wouldn’t you like to have 12 dividends every year
Many of our customers have already purchased or subscribed for shares of our First Preferred
Stock.
It nets them 7.20 per cent on every dollar invested
This is one of the most attractive investment opportunities now before the Portland public.
Here are a few reasons why shares should appeal to you.
Your income will be regular and dependable.
4. Dividends exempt from normal federal income tax.
Dividends paid by check on the first of each month
or quarterly, as preferred.
Exempt from Oregon personal property tax.
5. Your savings will be safe.
6. Business is firmly established, well managed and
permanent
7. They yield 7.20%. Price $100.00 per share.
If you subscribe for shares on our easy payment plan, you may pay $10.00 per share down and
$10.00 a month per share till fully paid for.
We will pay you 7% interest on all your payments until the shares are yours and then your divi
dends begin to accrue immediately.
Act on this opportunity today.
Inquire at our Investment Department, 820 Electric Building, now.
Portland Electric Power Co
Portland, Salem, Oregon City and Vancouver, Wash.
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OUR FOREIGN DEPARTMENT
YOUR AMBASSADOR NOW
N THE DAYS of good
Queen Bess trading com
panies were diplomats and
ship owners as well as
merchants. They maintained
ambassadors at the courts of
foreign kings in addition to
their regular agents and
fleets.
Skip a few hundred years.
Today you may export car
goes worth fortunes, yet
never own a ship. You may
have no one on a payroll
outside of Portland, yet safe
ly trade with the fringes of
the world.
Our Foreign Department, but a few blocks from
your offices, makes all this possible. Through com
petent correspondents we can help you with your ex
port or import business in any part of the world.
Collections, credit information, handling documented
paper — we handle every detail of foreign trade.
We will be glad to serve you,
I
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANL
OF PORTLAND OREGON
■THE FIRST • NATIONAL BANK WEST
OF THE ROCKY FOUNTAINS
Choice of Limited Trains
TO
Spokane and the East
VIA
Spokane, Portland & Seattle Ry.
The “North Coast Limited” leaves Portland
in the morning and the “Oriental Limited”
leaves Portland in the evening for Spokane.
Montana Points, St. Paul, Chicago and the
East.
The former, east of Spokane, moves via the
Northern Pacific Ry., and the latter via the
Great Northern Ry. to St. Paul, thence the
Burlington Route.
Both are all steel trains, giving every in
ducement for comfort and pleasure.
CONSOLIDATED TICKET OFFICE
Third and Washington Streets
UNION PASSENGER STATION
Fifth Street at Stark
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