DRAMATIC,
REAL ESTATE
AUTOS, ROADS
SECTION FOUR
Pages 1 to 12
VOL. XXX).
PORTLAND, OREGON. SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 12, 1912.
NO. 19.
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and on the terms vou want, at Wm. Gadsby
Is' tna We paynorent. We give our customers
& Sons than any place in ror l ucMpT FTF HOUSEFURNISHING a specialty. Young: couples getting; married, or
See Our Window Display of
Gibson Refrigerators
OUR 1912 MODELS
are equipped with new patent waste
pipe and trap in bottom of provision
chamber, all , removable fir cleaning.
Lined with enamel porcelain, galvan
ized steel or rine. Also have retinned
wire shelves. Case finished in hard
wood with round comers and raised
front panels. Yon make no mistake in
selecting one of our Gibson Refrig
erators; they will reduce your ice bill
2o per cent, and we guarantee them to
pive entire satisfaction. Prices ranse
from family size $9.00 UP
Solid Oak Folding
Bed Only $15.00
Where room is at a premium or
where there are few bedrooms,
guests must be cared for in other
rooms in rooming or boarding
houses, where the bedroom is
.wanted to look more homelike,
this is the bed you should have.
Comes with or without mirror.
Solid oak mantel beds, with mir
ror, for $20.00
Without mirror, only.. $15.00
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Gadsbys' Mattresses Always Please
$12 All-Cotton (hO
Felt Mattress pOU
These splendid white cotton felted Mattresses, weighing
50 pounds, are compressed down to six inches in thickness,
remain soft and elastic and do not wad; equal to the mat
tresses so extensively advertised at $15; absolutely sani-
tarv, durable and comfortable . ..$8.9
Ask the man who sleeps on one.
These 2 Brass Bed Bargains Tell Story
of Hundreds of Other Such Bargains
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$40 Leader Steel Range
.50
$90
Guaranteed.
Equal to any $40
ftange in the
market. Oven 18
x16 ins., asbestos
lined throughout.
You cannot break
the lids. Special
$29.50
THIS BRASS BED FOB ONLY
$10.25
Kill size pattern, in satin brass,
with two-inch post. A plain, neat
and substantial desicn.
Iron Beds all rednced at Gadsbys'
THIS BRASS BED FOR ONLY
$16.75
One of thoe continuous-post de
signs, also in atin brass. Full
size. Two-inch outside tubings.
China Closet for
$17.50
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We are offering special price
this week on solid oak China
Closets, all reduced. Our spe
cial $17.50
Solid Oak Buffet
$18.00
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Sale of Library or Den Tables
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This One $5.85
Library or Den Table in solid oak; a good, cheap table,
finished early English, weathered or golden oak.
24x36 in. $5.852642 in. $6.8528x48 in. $7.85
Solid oak Buffet, fumed, early
Knjrlish or golden oak finish;
regular price $33.00; special this
week at only $18.00
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$10 Mission
Rocker $5.50
Where Can Yon Boy Rockers Like This for $5.50?
Solid oak Rocker, exactly like cut,
made of fine selected oak, with
large upholstered
Sale of Gadsbys' Go-Carts
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Closed, can be
packed in trunk,
taken on cars;
is light and easy
to handle. Gads
bvs' price is
$6.75
This is a go o d
Cart cheap ;
n i e k cl mount
ings. Others as Cheap
as $4.50.
RUGS! RUGS! EVERYBODY WANTS RUGS GADSBY HAS THE
LARGEST SHOW OF RUGS IN THE STATE
ROOM-SIZE RUGS
625 PATTERNS TO SELECT FROM 1
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Five racks like picture, each displaying 125 patterns. Rugs from 12x15
to 6x9 feet on display. Anglo-Persians, Indians, Arabians, Royal or
cesters, Bagdads and Tepraes all are here at bottom prices. Some
special bargains:
Oriental Wil- I O 7 CA
tanas, 9x12..... tj) f JJ
Wilton Velvets, T O C ff
9x12
Eureka Velvets,
9x12
Metrop olitan
Bmssels, 9x12.
$14.50
$18.00
Smith's Tapes
try, 9x12... .
Tyvan Art Rugs,
9x12
Special Brussels, 9x
12, at
Anglo Persians,
9x12
$15.00
$12.00
$9.50
$55.00
All other brands equally low.
Don't forget we have the extra large Rugs in stock.
Gadsbys' Great Gas Savers
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This Reliable Gas Range Entirely
new design. Extreme width 4o
inches. It has capacity, it is con
venient and compact. It occupies
less space than any other range of
equal capacity. Doors are fitted
with French green porcelain enam
eled panels, presenting a beautiful
appearance.
ALL GAS RANGES CONNECTED
Buy your Gas Range while the
price" is low; $20 Gas Ranges
special at $15.00
It does not heat oven when you
broil or toast. It does not heat
broiler when you bake or roast.
Broiler fire in plain view when
broiling or toasting. Oven fire
in plain view when baking or
roasting. All the valves have
broil or toast. It does not heat
pressure. Burner caps not ce
mented, but loose, easy to clean.
Biggest Values Ever Offered
Rocker bargains beat these if you can for the money, d O OC
Three styles of Rockers take your choice. Extra special iJ)iiJ
or golden oak.
Regular price
$10.00, Gadsby 's
Clearance at only
$5.50
large upuoisterea jf "t TT
either weathered " - mm
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No'MattsrWhat bu Want in Furniture .
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USE OUR EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT
If you have furniture that doesn 't suit want
something more up to date and better, phone us
and we'll send a competent man to see it and ar
range to take it as part payment on the kind you
wan"t the Gadsby kind. We'll make you a lib
eral allowance for your goods, and we '11 sell you
new furniture at low prices. The new furniture
will be promptly delivered. Easy terms on bal
ance. Have furniture you '11 be proud of.
1 STATES TO HOLD
GREAT L
SHOW
Exposition of Products of
' Northwest at Minneapoiis
Next November.
OREGON WILL BE FEATURE
Exhibit to Be "Put on Wheels" and
Taken on Tour of Entire Coun
try to Advertise "Zone of
Plenty," Is Plan Xow.
Seven great states of the American
Northwest Oregon. Washington, Idaho,
Montana. North Dakota. South Dakota,
and Minnesota will hold an exposition
at Minneapolis November 12 to 23, 1912,
to show the products of the states and
exploit the possibilities of the vast
territory represented by the Northwest
ern Development League.
This exposition of the land, or, more
popularly called, "land show," will ba
an exhibition of the products of tha
soil, forests, mines, lakes, rivers and
factories of the seven Northwestern
states, and Alaska, for that great dis
trict wishes to share with th North
western states in the work of the de-el-opment
league, the largest commercial
organization in the world.
"A real land products show is liv
geography in captivity. It is geogra
phy visualized and vitalized," writes
Forrest Crissey, contributor to the Sat
urday Evening Post in his description
of "What the Modern Land Products
Show Means."
This is just exactly what the officers
of the Northwestern Development
League plan the products exposition at
Minneapolis this year shall be. To be
certain that the exposition is free from
objectionable concessions, that "spiel
ers" with something to sell, and un
reliable land agents, are barred, the
officers of the league will have personal
supervision of the exposition.
States to Have Authority.
Therefore, the Northwestern Prod
ucts exposition will be under the au
thority of the states, and conducted by
the Northwestern Development League,
a federation of more than 1700 com
mercial organlzaUons in the territory
represented. . ..
Believing that states often have been
misrepresented by "fake exhibits," the
development league is conducting its
own exposition. The first was held m
St Paul last December and met with
the approval of the governors and of
ficial representatives of the Northwest
ern states, on the return of the West
ern Governors' Special to St. Paul.
. r . i inn nna not-nnn visited the
wore auu.vvw 1 -- -
St Paul show, and it is estimated that
that double that number will visit the
Minneapolis exposition this year.
Products expositions according to
statistics from railroad immigration of
ficials, have been largely responsible
for 6,000,000 persons, 5 per cent of the
population of the United States, go
ing from city to country the last three
yeThe Minneapolis exposition thin year
will have the support of the railroads
and will make comprehensive displas.
So will the states themselves.
Railroad Man Telia of KesuWa.
In speaking of land shows and the
results of this class of advertising, J.
M Hannaford, vice-president of the
Northern Pacific Railways, says:
"We have always realized good re
sults from making displays at the land
products expositions, and we expect to
get our money's worth many times over
by exhibiting at the Northwestern
Products Exposition at Minneapolis.
L v. Hill, president of the trea
Northern railways, says:
"Of all forms of advertising wh'ct!
we have tried to attract people to the
desirable lands of the American North
vest, making displays at the -cJ
Land Shows' is considered the. best
method of interesting people and ask
ing them to make their homes in the
?s Pth.styexposltion that Oregon
will share in and where the products ol
the state will be displayed 'before
thousands of visitors. The-St. Paul ex
Position will be the direct result ol
attracting attention to this years
show at Minneapolis.
come generally understood tha the ex
position is not a Pvate enterprise but
an institution with the backing of
seven great states.
When the Northwestern Development
League Congress convenes eatUe
June 5 to 8. the coming exposition will
be one of the topics, of ussion The
results of last year's show will be set
SSi In figures and just what it is ex
pected to accomplish this year will he
unfolded by the league officers.
Campaign la Extending.
It is through St. Paul and Minneapo
lis the Twin City Gateway, that thous
ands of homeseekers pass -each year,
nd for this reason the executive com
mittee of the league thought it aa
vtsabfe to hold the exposition there.
The exposition is being brought to
the attention of as many farmers a
it Is possible to reach with the publicity
material of the league. -
This campaign has extended to Iowa.
Illinois. Wisconsin. Ohio and Indiana.
More than 1.732,000 people live within
200 miles of the Twin Cities. In most .
Instances they are men and women w ho
are likely to go and live on the land.
invest Tin t. U is this class of : people
that the St. Paul show reached last
vetr and the class of visitors that will
vfew the products of the American
Northwest at Minneapolis this V-
The new Coliseum, with a seating
capacity of more than 5000. besides ad
ditional lecture rooms and ample floor
space, has been donated by the business
men of Minneapolis. Because of the
public character of the exposition the
league was the only enterprise of its
kind granted special rates by the rail
roads in 1911. The first exposition was
a marked success and the railroads will
be first to install displays this year, in
pe ,tcnirf bv the North-
tne x 1 1 1 inii y i v -i. -
western Development League are more
than 395,000.000 acres of land. - At
Present, but 7.000.000 live on it. It is
the purpose of the league through the
products exposition to carry the mes
sage of the Northwest to millions else
where, exploit the resources and pos
sibilities of the territory In an authen
tic manner, increase the knowledge ot
the world O the advantages or homes
on the lar: in the American North
west and Ei a truthful exposition ot
Just what the flrthwest really is.