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All Credit Purchases Monday and Tuesday Go on May Accounts, Payable June 1 Portland's Best Corset service, witn mncipai Agency
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f it a t rnnri(r mnn or -wrvmjin Anion? us whose : fondest hope,
W vrft,nitv finishinrr their education at Yale, Harvard, Princeton
WellMdy. Wd rawr Smith or 80me other col,eSe or university of equal Advantage ? AVTiat
i f ,i: ' i. fi- a hirrhor pHufation for his or her son or daughter? hat men
12 Free Scholarships Will Be Awarded
in the Most Famous American Colleges
whose ideal has not been the
or Vassar,
parent whose
d who has not
Tw, oi!. .nrinn. fnr th onn'ortunitv of a higher education for an ambitious acquaintance?
This great $4000 Educational Contest in commemoration of the 55th Anniversary of The Meier & Frank
Store, brings to you the consummation of this educational desire.
. Some young man will be given a year's scholarship all expenses paid in Yale, Harvard, Princeton,
Columbia University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology or any other American college or university he
may designate. - ' . .
Some young woman, will receive a year's scholarship all expenses paid, in aasar, f"sly, Byrn
Mawr, Smith or any other American college or university. And you know what the social prestige, the finish
of one of the famous schools, means. , , . j j -
In an 12 scholarships, in the- leading schools of the country, will be awarded in this extraordinary con
test, whfch Wins a" 8 o'clock. Monday morning, April 29th, and closes at 9:30 Saturday night June 15 h
All scholarships will be decided by popular vote here in the store. Any man or woman m Portland, and states
of Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana is eligible. . .
Grand Double Scholarship Prize$ 2000 !
A $1000 Scholarship in any CoUege in Amer: I A $1000 Scholarship in any College in Amer
ica to Man securing greatest number of votes ica to Woman securing greatest number of
in contest . J votes in contest
The $1000 Scholarships cover tuition, railroad fare and expenses for one year. This amount is larger than
the allowance used by the average student.
The 55 Years of This
Store's Growth Is Story
of Service & Satisfaction
A S THE miehtv oak the monarch of the forest
reach year shows an added ring of growth, so the
month of May marks an era of continued development at The Meier
& Frank Store! . -
You -can count on the fingers of one band all the. stores ' in . the
United States which date back to 55 years of "actual, continual busi
ness under one name and management. '
The little store which Aaron Meier established down on Front 6treet
in 1857 had for its foundation the principles of service, of satisfac
tion, of fair dealing to each and every patron.
That foundation is the one on which rests this great institution of
today-which has witnessed the growth through three generations.
Millions of dollars' worth of dependable merchandise has been dis
tributed .into the homes of satisfiedLcustomers throughout the great
Northwest. The two great structures, housing 75. complete specialty
shops, represent a floor space of over seven lity blocks. A little army
of nearly 2000 loyal employes serves you well.
During this month we will celebrate the beginning of the 56th year
of business by wonder value-giving as well as the mighty $1000 Edu
cational' Contest, detailed here fully.
Yale. ' .
M Irk i gam.
Choice of These Men' Colleges
Harvard. r.raeu. . j-r.-o-.--.
$ extra or total of liroo allowed .Mould winner select this Col-:
le. owing- to special laboratory fee.
Choice of These Women's Colleges
Vaaaar, llly, Brya Mawr. . Saslta,
Or Aay Otaer la I altea Mates. .
The Second Prize
A Moo "otKr?KX rsiT.Ra.TT
Thli liberal amount ill fully rovw tuition railroad fare and a
rear's expenses. Jt la more than required by the average student.
- The Third Prize
A S3M 5CHOf,HI, TO OXK M. OR TOMA I J OR BOON
OK WIIXASETTB l rVfcRSITV.
Tuftlon. fees, railroad fare and a rear's expanses fully covered
in this splendid. Scholarship priae of $500. Choice of Oregon Uni
versity. Oregon Agricultural College or Willamette University to
the. man or woman standing; third in contest.
The Local Scholarship Prizes
These are scholarships of tuition for those living;' in Portland.
Or for those, successful candidates living; in the state outside of
Portland, to apply on total expenses of schooling.
Fauna Prise 1160 Tuition Scholarship to one man or woman, in
Reed College. . .
Fifth Prise II JO Tuition Scholarship In Portland Academy to one
nan or woman.
Sixth Prise f 100 Tuition Scholarship III Columbia University,
- Portland, to one man.
Seveath Prise 1120 Tuition Scholarship in St. Helen's Hall, to one
Klgath' Prise $i:o Tuition Scholarship in Hill Military Academy,
to one boy.
Klath Prise 1100 Tuition Scholarship in Allen's Preparatory
School, to one boy or girl. . '
Tvath Prise $50 Tuition Scholarship in St. Mary's Academy, to
Eleveath' Prise 150 Tuition Scholarship for Commercial Course In
Christian Brothers' College, to one boy.
Conditions of Contest and Casting of Votes
Anv man or woman in Portland and the Northwest
one of the htgner coihwgiaio cnoiarmnyn,
ships -are open to any boy or girl.
mav
The Academlo Scholar
win'
Votes will T given with all cash or credit purchases, of 25c ana
' upward.- Ballots are numbered In multiples of 25 that is
-Purchases of KVe S5 eall for 35 rotes. .. . . ,
Purchases f 3c to 0"c eall for BO voles.
Purrhasea of c o Me eall for 78 votes.
Purchases of MUe to S1.0O rail for 10O votes.
' Aaa so oa la rorrespoadlaa; maltlples.
' ' As usual, a duplicate sales check will be given with every
.purchase. When duly stamped by cashier, it should be taken to
.th special booth on first floor, where it will be redeemed for
baJEaH'h ballot will bear a date, five days ahead and may be voted
at the booth any time until store-closing of the final date of valid
ity. For instance, a ballot dated May 1 must be voted by May 5.
Mall order customers should designate the contestant they wish
to vote for and we will cast the ballot accordingly.
Standing of the candidates will be published in our advertise
ments from day to day during contest.
Judges of Contest
Our great Kducational Contest will be held under the direction
tt these well-known Oregonlans:
Presldrat W. J. Kerr, of Orrfos Agricultural College.
President P. 1-. Campbell, of Or-gom University.
Professor Frank Rlgler. gaperlatendent Portland City Schools. ,
Professor T. T. Davis, Principal Lincoln Hlarh School.
.. li. F. Johnson, General Manager Sherman, Clay A Ce4 Portland.
fAhriiversary Sale Muslin wear!
Decisive Saving's on Portland's Largest StocK of
Dainty, New, Carefally Made Under-Garments
ARDLY. a one of. the thousands of crisp,
I"l snowy undergarments has been in stock
over' a month ! Many were purchased with this sale in
view, which means every effort has been put forth to
offer really worth-while savings on high-grade Under
muslins. ' - .
The best materials, trimmings, workmanship, cut to
conform with the prevailing close-fitting modes.
JIIL.:
Night Robes
Made of sheer nainsook, cambric
and muslin, in high and low-neck
styles with long and short sleeves.
Dainty embroidery, linen and Val
lace trimmings:
75c Gowns, special, only 53
$1.25 Gowns, special, only 93d
Gowns, special at $1.22
Gowns, special at $1.43
Gowns, special at $1.57
Gowns, special at $1.98
Gowns, special at $2.67 :
Gowns, special at $2.87
Gowns, special at $3.08
Gowns, special at $3.95
$1.60
$1.75
$2.00
$2.60
$3.00
$3.50
$4.00
$6.00
Combinations
Drawer and corset cover Com
binations, of fine nainsook and
cambric, with new style straight
drawer. Also raffled style,
trimmed in dainty linen and Val
laces, beading and ribbon:
$1.25 Combinations, for 98
$1.50 Combinations, for $1.29
$2.00 Combinations, for $1.47
$2.50 Combinations, for $1.95
$3.00 Combinations, for $2.47
$3.50 Combinations, for $2.89
$4.00 Combinations, for $3.18
$5.00 Combinations, for $3.95
Women's Drawers
Of fine nainsook, cam
bric and muslin, in nar
row and circular 6tyles,
trimmed ra good quality
embroidery, laee edgings.
75c Drawers, at only 47
$1.00 Drawers, only 73
$1 JO Drawers, only 9S
$1.75 to $3 Drwrs. $1.22
$3.50 to $5 Drwrs. $1.95
Corset Covers
60c Corset Covers at S54
75c Corset Covers at 47
$1.00 Corset Covers 67
$1.25 Corset Covers 98
$20 Corset Covn $1.47
White UndersKirts
Made of fine lawn and
cambric, in new close-fitting
styles. Flounces of
embroidery, . lace, tucks,
beading and ribbons:
$1.50 Underskirts at 981
$2.00 Underskirts $1.47
$2.50 Underskirts $1.83
$3.50 Underskirts $2.47
$5-$S Underskirts $3.95
Misses' UndersKirts
$2.00 Underskirts SI. 67
$2.50 Underskirts $1.95
$3.00 Underskirts $2.67
$3.50 Underskirts $2.89
Women's Hand
Made French
Lingerie
$4 and $5 Trench Corset
Covers finest French
Nainsook, with hand -embroidered
yoke; linen and
Val. laces, $2.47. -
$5 and $6 Trench Che
mise Nainsook and Ba
tiste, trimmed in linen and
Val. Laces ribbons; hand
embroidered, at $2.95.
$7.50 to $10.00 Trench
Combinations, hand- em
broidered and haA-madi.
Corset Cover and Skirt
combined, $3.95.
Trench Hand Made
Skirts two sample lots, of
fine nainsook and lawn,
with hand-e mbroi dered
flounces, separate nnder
lav. The $13.50 and $15
Skirts, $8.75; $10 and $12
Skirts,. $5.95.
$2- Trench Corset Covers
Hand-made and hand
embroidered, with ribbon
eyelet tapin? at neck; un
laundered, $1.49.
$2.50 Trench Chemise
of fine nainsook, hand-embroidered,
with scalloped
neck and arms, $1.49.
45c to 85 c
TvIREOT from St. Gall. Switzerland, comes this great lot of beautiful new Embroideries
vprsarv Sfllfi f Over 5000 vards of 18-inch Embroideries, on Swiss, nainsook ' cambric
dhriitv- " Scores of lovelv new -patterns, for corset covers and undermuslins. ExceUeiifc 15c to -lA
85c grades see them: in the Fifth-street window. We speciaLthem.at the low price, the yard
New 45-inch Tlouncings :
Handsome designs, on sheer
batiste and voile, with designs
in white and . colors. The
Flouncings: $2 to $3 grades,
$1.39; $3.50 to $6 grades at
$2.69. Bands: $2 and $2.50
at $1.39.
30c to 60c Cluny Laces
New shipment of machine
mada Cluny Bands and Edges,
3ya to '5 inches wide, in de
mand for waists and gowns.
For the Great Anniversary
Sale tomorrow at the
low price of only, yd.
25c
for the Anni- W&l
and f9 r f I
35c to 75c Shadow Laces
One of the season's strongest
features. Edges and Inser
tions in white and cream 4 to
9 inches wide, for neckwear
and dress trimmings. For the
Anniversary Sale to- njj
morrow at only, yard a3C
$10.00 to $12.00 Robe Pat
terns- With very little work
you have a lovely lingerie
gown. -"White voile, some with
colored embroidery. Suffi
cient; flouncing and bands.
For . the Anni
versary Sale at
S8.98
First Floaiw Net Balldlas. Mall Orders Filled,
To $ 1 Lovely Sample
Neckwear 45c
PRACTICALLY every new and
favored stvle of the season.
Lovely Jabots, Rabats, Cascades,
Gabby" $ows, uutcn uouars,
' FichusStocks, Croats and Quaker
Collars.
Also a large assortment of
Plauen Lace Collars, Chemisettes,
Yokes, Coat Collars and Coat Sets.
In this big assortment not a
Eiece of Neckwear that is worth
elow 65c ; mostly bet-. A
ter grades up to $1.
Anniversary Sale for
Initial Handherchiefs
6 in Pachage Only 20c
Pretty new crossbarred and
checked dimity Handkerchiefs with
1-4-inch- hemstitched border and
neat initials of all letters. Worth
80 each. Put up in Pk-Ori
aces of six. sceciaJ for onlv s&VC
3000 Yards of 35c to
65c Ribbons Only 25c
Every sort of wanted Ribbons!
Plain Taffetas, Moires, . Satins,
Fancy Dresdens, Print Warps, Jac
quards, plaids, stripes, brocades.
From 5 to 8 inches wide. QC.
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Regular. 3oc to 65o Ribbons
First FImi
ages of six, special for only 1
-Mala Balldlaa-. Mall Orders Filled.
Women's 65c to $1
Knit Underwear 45c
N accumulation of samples and
surplus lots from the biggest
Underwear mills in the country !
Fine Summerrweight ribbed lisle and cot
ton Vests, . Pants and Union Suits. Low
.neck, sleeveless with -tight knee and lace
trfrhmed umbrella styles. Also high neck,
long sleeve and ankle-length Union Suits.
Clean, perfect ' garments, which bear fa
mous labels known to every wo- A
man. One of the biggest Anni- jf JC
versary Sale offerings. Garmf. t
Women's $1 to $1 .75
Kid Gloves at Only 87c
NEW, staple lines, taken out of our
regular stock, for this sensational
Anniversary Glove Sale !
One and two-clasp styles, pique and over
seam sewn, with one row and Paris point
embroidered backs. They are glace kid and
cape liloves. juignt anavmeamm weignts.
Black, white and all new shades,
sizes 5yn to 7. Best $1, $1.2a,
4.1 en J i n- ri
First Floar Mala BalldlaK. XaU Orders Filled.
87 c
Our Hous
Furnitjire, Willamette Se
ing: Machines, Acorn Stoves a'
our Club Plan of easy pajTnW
3000 Pieces German Aluminumware
AN immense purchase
of 3000 pieces of
Aluminum Ware made
while our buyer was at
the factory in Werdohl, Ger
many, and timed to arrive
for the Anniversary Sale I
$1.25 Covered Aluminum
Sauce Pans, as illustrated above,
with cover and long iyv
handle. Special now at f 7C
$1 Lipped Sauce Pans, of Ger
man Aluminum ware, as illus
trated above. Anniver-
rai-v Sale price is on1
49c
90c Aluminum Frying Pans, as
illustrated above, very durable
and will not burn or A o
warp.. Special at only"xOC
TELEPHONES PACmC PEIV. EX. MARSHALL 4600; A 6101 ular 75c Cases, Anniversary Sale
To 75c New Stamped
Pillow Cases for 47c!
PILLOW CASES, stamped for
embroidering,. on a splendid
quality bleached muslin. Wide hemstitched
hems; 18x36 -inch size. Dainty French,"
English and eyelet designs. Reg- A "7
at
$2.50 New C'ntury
Dictionaries at 98c
A NE'W lot
of 500 or
dered by wire
-for the Anniversary-
Sale.
We sold -aK
most- this,
number with
in 48 hours a
e w w e e k s
ago!
The New Cen
tury is a real
$2.50 Diction
ary. Over 1000 pages, including all
new words, statistics, colored 'plates
and full-page illustrations. Only our
direct co-operation with the publish
ers enables us. to offer them QQ
at this, ridiculously low price ivOV
95c Twentieth Century Cook Books,
new edition, 45.
New Popular Fiction, many titles,
in original ' editions (not reprints),
never before sold for less than $1.18.
Anniversary Sale, 50.
Spit:
Summer Furnitureof Grass
and Rattan Sale
D ROBABLY no store in the -
New Impel
IUST released fron
great new shipml
Hosiery, ironi jnemnitz,
savings as these are pos:
portation elimination o
Women's Fine Impo
Extra fine araug;e, perfec
double heel and toe. Black
Also silk-lisle in blacks and
Women's Gossamer Lisle
sheer and dainty, with doubtl
and welt top. Box ot sixr
$2.75; pair, 50$. .
Women's New Imported,
Lisle Hose full-fashioned,
double tops, reinforced hee
toe. Black and tan; box c
pairs, $2.75; pr., 47f.
United States imports so
.much of this artistic
grass and rattan Fur-
;niture direct from China
as Meier & Frank's! A
full line of new styles in
Chairs, Rockers, Tables,
etc., at Anniversary Sale
prices: i
This . Chinese Rattan
Hour-glass Chair, as illus
trated, an ideal style for
porch' or den, djyf QQ
special at ulr.O
Imported Or ass
' Stools, strong and
durable. . Wc special
them at'tfJO AQ
only, ea. P'
Chinese Grass
Bockers A pretty,
comfortable design,
teakwood $7 d.Q
runners, N 7
Chinese Grass Peel
Chairs Adjustable
foot rest. One of the
most comfortable
styles, for $10.24
Rogers' Silv
Another ampment f
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isaucua vaat.
A LITTLE over a month ago
" bella" Vintage design in sihj
the Rosers Cutlery Company, on sale. The eif
two days. '
We duplicated the order by wire and now
sary Sale! Everv piece of high-grade stand
base. THINK OF IT! Sugar Shells for 16c
Knives, set of six, $1.14! On sale Monday, '
Medium Knives, as illustrated, in
new-"Isabella" Vintage (1 1 A
design. Set of six, only P
Medium Porks, as illustrated, in
new . "Isabella" Vintage de- QQ.
sign. Set of six Forks for 7i
Oyster Porks, as illustrate.'., in new
"Isabella" designs, set of six. QO
Special for three days at, set, OOC
. "Isabella" Child's Silver Set
Knife, Fork and Spoon, m 0
lined box. THINK OF IT! Set c
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