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About Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927 | View Entire Issue (April 5, 1907)
Word Contest Gilmore & Company A Beautiful Piano Absolutely Free to You Our New Store is now open to you. Already we are receiving many vis itors each day. Wo are located in the new Conklin building and we expect to maintain a Piano House hero among you second to none in the State of Oregon outside of the city of Portland. Just a casual glance into our store will convince you of this. Hero you will find tho matchless Chickering, the peerless Weber, which is tho choice of the great Rosenthal; tho Ilazelton, the most exclusive piano made in America, and -many others with enviable records. Just now, as wo have already announced, wo are after publicity. We want you to know wo aro here. Wo want you interested in us ami the lino of magnif cont Pianos wo sell. Theroforo wo have made our unparalleled offer, as we again repeat below. Lot us say concerning these prizes that wo sought only to chose instruments which would always reflect credit to our house, We would say far ther in regard to these : The Piano we offer free as First Prize is a beautiful Upright Piano fresh from the factories of that time-honored house, iMarshall & Wen dell. This piano is valued at $150,00 and is of the highes: grade. Among our prizes is found an organ of that world-renowned make the Kimball. Since your childhood you have known and respected the Organs made by this famous house. Value of this Prize, $150.00. We offer also as prizes the equivalent of gold dollars. Those w ho ever intend to p'aee a Piano in their homes should investigate thorough ly this offer we make. The beautiful Talking Machine we also offer as a prize in the Contest is ot the World's Greatest Make. Are not these gifts worthy of your effort in the contest? The very work you perform is highly beneficial to you. Write today for any information you may desire in the matter. REMEMBER, THE CONTEST CLOSES IN TEN DAYS, APRIL 15th. As we have already explained we are after publicity and we know of no more thorough and economical way we could obtain the same. Certainly our prizes are wotrhy ones. The effort we ask you to make is a pleasant one. Read of our plan in the following: o A N A PIANO FREE A dealer might oouie to your door and offer to pat luto your home s beautiful piauo without cost 10 yon and immediately afterward give 70a a clear bill of possestion for it. Aud won Id not inch au offer surprise yon? But nevertheless that ia exactly the offer the new piauo iitore Id Medford aud Grauta Past propone! to make to you. Of course we expect something ia return but Dot uiouey. All we are after Is publicity (that moat valn able state for any business bonne) aud in order to obtain publicity, we have decided to hold a free ooutcst by en tering which anyone may absolutely without rout to themselves become the possessor of a beautiful new upright piano of a well known and reliable make, or else you may win a maguiti rent parlor orgau of standard make. We alsu propose to give away free a Kennine Victor Talking Machine. In addition to thee (lifts, we offer an further prizes more than (10,000 Tins last is to tw distributed as piano value aiuoiiK those who are ready to grasp the greatest opportunity ever offered to the people of Southern Oregon t" place iu their home a high grade piano. It is our desire to blend the two word. Uir.MoHK aud PIANO into ore. When you or your friends are reudy to purchase a piano, we want those same two words to come into your mind simultaneously. Can you not see what this wonld mean to us? At leant you would call aud give us a cbauoe to prove to you that these same two words are syuonyuis of QUALITY and RELIABILITY. With this end 10 viow, therefore, we offer to you these glf's, governed by the following conditions: Take the two words, GILMORE PIANO, and by using the letters to be foUDd in each, make a lit of words. To the person who complies, the greatest number of cor net words according to the rules found below, we will give ABSOLU TELY i'RKE a beautiful npright piano of a well-known reliable make. To the person submitting the next largest correct list will be given a standard parlor orsa'i of world re nowned make ABSOLUTELY FREE. To the one handing in to us the next largest correct list, will be given free of auy charge a geuoina Victor Talking Machine with records. To the next 10 largest correct lists, wa receive, we will give each a certiti. cate of a face value of 100, which iiiav he applied at any time on any piano for sale by CilLMORE A Co., under the conditioni named on the certificates. The next 10 largest correct list will receive certificates of the same kind, but with a face value ot 198.80. The next 10 will re ceive certificates atuonutiug to f99.80. The next 10 will receive certificates to the value of $99.70. And so on in groups of 10, e.ich group lessening in value at the rate of deducting 10 cents for each Bncceediug group. Each list of words mutt observe the following r 11 lei 1st. No letter may be used In any one word oftener than It appear in the two words. GILMORE MANO. 2d. All words mast be found in the lastest edition of Webster's In ternational Dictionary. 8d. Each list must contain no names of persons or places. 4th. All contestants must be resi dents of either Jack'ou or Joe-phi aa Counties, Ore. 5th. All lists must be mailed to GILMORE & Co., Medford or Grants Pass before midnight of April 1.".. In case of ties, the list bearing the earliest postmark will be declared the winning list. For farther infotmation, write or call ou us. Come in and see the beautiful prizes we off. r. 1 A O S PIANOS: Chickering, Weber, Haze.ton, Kimball, Hobart M Marshal; & Wendell, Crown, Steck, Bailey, etc. ORGANS: Kimball, Crown, Pacific Queen etc TALKINC MACHINES: Victor, Monarch, Columbia, etc. Cable, MEDFORD HXTO DEALERS GRANTS PASS