THE UNITED AMERICAN
Page Two
JANUARY 1926
The Store That Undersells
Because It Sells for Cash
Car Snippers—Cargo Shippers
All Mail Orders Promptly and Carefully Filled
Agents for the Butterick Patterns and Publications
Inman-Poulsen
Lumber Company
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Portland, Oregon, U. S. A.
ASK YOUR DEALER
for the following brands
Manufactured in Portland
Mt. Hood Overalls
Mt. Hood Shirts
University Overcoats
University Mackinaws
Jenny & Joe Playsuits
Columbi-Ann House Dresses
Columbi-Ann Ladies’ Night Gowns
A Warranty Bond with Every Garment
LUMBER
MANUFACTURERS
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What Advertising Does
Annual Output 200,000,000 Feet
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Oregon Marine &. Fisheries Supply Co.
Dealers in all articles and supplies for
ships, gas engines, rope, twine, fish
nets, McMahon trolling spoons.
PLYMOUTH ROPE
105-107 1ST ST., PORTLAND, ORE-
1. It creates markets
2. It stimulates trade
3. It expands commerce
4. It builds cities
5. It populates new country
6. It finances industry, business and homebuilding
7. It builds institutions of learning
„ and science
8. It erects churches and hospitals
9. It educates and elevates the people
10. It carries to the nation’s hearthstones concise
messages of the business world
11. It promotes prosperity
12. It increases efficiency by saving of time and
effort
13. It lowers cost by increasing consumption
14. It establishes confidence.
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TOO MUCH CHARLESTON 9
COME SAY there is. Others say there can’t be too much. But the question is: aren’t we living
at too fast a pace — isn’t our hard-earned money going for the froth and jazz of the
present day? Aren’t we penny-wise and pound-foolish, by spending our money for bubbles,
dancing even as we eat and burning the candles at both ends ?
Look at the average budget of today:
Bottle of French perfume advertised in the papers....
$28.00
Cheaply constructed cookstove, advertised in the papers
$27.75
The perfume a luxury that vanishes, the stove a part of your home that ought to last
for ten years!
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Or take one young man’s list of purchases:
Automobile.................................. $825.00
Piano
................................. $575.00
Radio set........................
225.00
Cookstove.................................... 39.95
And yet it is said that “the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach,” but with a poor
cookstove it’s going to be a hard, difficult road for friend wife. She is entitled to the best, the
at is the new “Smoothtop” sold by the Gas Store.quickest, the cleanest, the handsomest... and th
FIFTH AND ALDER
PHONE MAIN 6500
Place Your Orders With The United American Advertisers—and Tell Them Why