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:
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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.
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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