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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 15, 1909 
WRITE NOW FOR GRAND FREE MILLWORK, ROOFINGJIND LllMBER CATALOGS 
Porch 
Bracket 
7c 
We will supply you with High-Grade Guaranteed Building Material—the 
best made in America—at an actual Cash Saving of HALF what your Retail 
Dealer demands—including Freight. 
Our Grand Free Catalog offers over 5,000 Bargains In Sash, Doors, Windows, 
Mouldings, Roofing and All Classes of Lumber. Every item we sell is Guaranteed 
up to the Official Grades Adopted by the Sash & Door Manufacturers’ Associations. 
In addition to guaranteeing the Quality of our goods, we also Guarantee Safe De¬ 
livery and Complete Satisfaction or Money Refunded Without Delay or Objections. 
We operate the Largest Millwork and Lumber 
Plant in America, selling its Entire Product Direct to 
Farmers, Home Owners, Carpenters, Contractors 
and Builders. We are located in the Center of the 
Millwork Industry and in the very Heart of the Ship¬ 
ping Belt that affords the Lowest Freight Rates 
Everywhere. 
We Carry Immense Stocks 
—Quick Shipment Anywhere 
Here in our great Warehouse we carry the Largest 
Reserve Supply of High-Grade Guaranteed Millwork 
in the World. We load direct from Warehouse Platforms to cars on our own Private 
Switch Tracks, and ship everything by Fast Freight. This insures Prompt Delivery 
to any railroad station in the country. We pack our goods carefully. 
Our Catalog of 5,000 Building Material Bargains is crowded full of a Splendid 
Assortment of the Latest Designs of Millwork, Approved by Architects of the 
Highest Reputation. Every item is illustrated and described, down to the smallest 
detail. Everything is made so clear and plain that anyone can order correctly. And 
we guarantee to send you exactly what you order. Our order-fillers are Experts and 
pick out each article just as carefully as you would if you were here to make the 
selection yourself. 
We have been established here since 1865 and have built up this Enormous Busi¬ 
ness, with Customers in practically every Township in the United States, by giving 
such Big Values. Prompt Service and Satisfaction that all who send Trial Orders 
become Regular Customers. 
We Undersell Everybody 
on MILLWORK, LUMBER and 
DAACIIIfi See Prices in Free Catalogs. 
UvUlinU Satisfaction or Money Back. 
By selling Direct to the Actual User of Lumber, Millwork and Building Material, 
we save you the Immense Profits of Middlemen. Our Catalog also saves paying 
the Salaries and Expenses of Traveling Salesmen. These Combined Savings 
amount to at least 50 per cent of Local Dealers’ Prices, and every penny goes to 
our Customers. That’s why we can and do undersell everybody in our line. 
The sample Bargains listed on this page are taken at random from our Grand 
Free Millwork, Roofing and Lumber Catalogs. They represent only a few of our 
Great Departments of Building Material. We can supply you with Everything 
that goes into a Building above the Foundation. 
Whether you order 85 worth or 510,000 worth, we 
will save you at least HALF. We make the same 
prices to everybody. The Dealer himself cannot 
buy Millwork for less money here or elsewhere 
than our prices Direct to You. This is a strong 
statement, but absolutely true. Our prices are 
Ground-Floor, Rock-Bottom, and our Goods are 
the Best Made. r 
Why Gordon-Van 
Quality is the Highest 
We control our own Product fn every Process of Manufacture, from Tree to Saw¬ 
mill, and straight through the Model Millwork Plant of America to the Warehouse. 
Our Lumber is first Air-dried and then put through a Scientific Drying Procese. 
Joints are made with Heavy Hardwood Dowel Pins, glued with Imported Glue and 
pressed together by heavy Steam Power Press. Gordon-Van Tine Door9 are 
Extra Strong. The Panels have a heavy raise on both sides and are sandpapered 
on a Special Machine of our own Invention before the Door is put together. 
The entire Door is then smoothed with fine-grained sandpaper. 
All our Millwork is made in the most Painstaking and Workmanlike manner. 
We spare no Expense to make every article we sell a Standing Advertisement 
for our Millwork. Don’t spend a cent on Material for Building or Repairing until 
you see our Catalog. Drop us a postal today and get our Great Free Money- 
Saving Millwork Catalog of 5,000 Bargains. Ask for the Free Lumber Catalog. 
Also the Free Roofing Catalog. 
50 Per pent CASH SAVING ON 5,000 ITEMS! 
We Saved Our Customers Upward of $1,000,000 in 1908 
From Our Bankers 
Porch 
Column 
67o Bam Sash, Alight, 
38c 
Porch 
Spindles, ea. ljfo 
Scott County Savings Bank 
Capital 9250,000.00 Surplus 9 1 60,000.00 
DAVENPORT, IOWA. 
To Whom it May Concern: 
It gives us great pleasure to testify to the 
reliability, business integrity and honesty of 
Gordon-Van Tine Co. Their financial respon- 
eibility js well over three hundred thousand 
dollars ($300,000.00), and they enjoy the high¬ 
est credit with western Financial Institutions. 
We assure prospective customers that they 
are perfectly secure in sending the money 
with their orders, as we understand that if 
goods are not entirely satisfactory, they may 
bo returned at shippers’ expense, and the 
money will be promptly refunded. 
The officers of this company are well and 
favorably known to us, and may be relied 
upon to do exactly as they agree. 
Yours very trulv, 
J. H. HASS, Cashier. 
Good Strong Door 
Price 77o 
Any Banker in America will tell you we are 
absolutely responsible. We refer you to the 
Editor of this paper. 
Doors 77c 
Windows 73c 
Transoms 33c 
CoEumns 57c 
Corner Blocks 2c 
Head Blocks 4c 
Hot-Bed 
Sash $1.69 
Colonial Porch 
Column, 
$1.85 
Fancy Front Door 
Price 94.80 
Four-Light Check Rail 
well madeWindows,60o 
Porch Millwork at Half Price 
We save you 60 per cent on Columns, Newel 
Posts, Spindles, Rail, Brackets, and everything 
necessary to build any size or style of Porch. 
See Porch designs and prices in catalog. 
100 lineal feet 
Casing, 91.76 
Build, Remodel or Repair Houses, Barns, Stores, Churches at 
HALF USUAL COST Buy whatever you need to build or repair a building of| 
iiMki uvurifa vvwi any jji nc j, from a corn crib to the finest home, at our 
cut prices. A new Art Front Door or Window, a Gable Ornament, Beamed Ceil-I 
ings. Hardwood Floors, a Plate Rail for the Dining Room, an Artistic Mantel ori 
a new Porch will make the old house like new at Small Cost. The Free Catalog 
abounds in Suggestions for making Homes more Attractive. 
Corner 
Blocks 
Each 2 « 
A 
Flight 
of Stairs 
Completo 
$ 24.73 
We offer yon 
a splendid variety 
of Stair Material in 
Oak and Yellow Pino. 
Our Designs admit of 
many Variations. Our 
prices savo you from S60 to 
5126 on a complete flig 
stairs. See Catalog for 1 
Stair Designs. 
ht of 
atest 
100 lineal 
ft. Quar¬ 
ter Round 
2So 
LUMBER £5 
Save $100 to $300 
on a Carload! 
Write for FREE Lumber List 
Get Gordon-Van Tine’s figures on all the 
Lumber you need. We undersell everybody 
on Lumber of every description. We carry 
the biggest stock and ship direct from the 
Mill to you at actual Saw-Mill Prices. Mil¬ 
lions of feet of best Yellow Pine and White 
Pine Lumber offered at prices that stagger 
competition. Now is the time to build. 
Sign and Mail for the FREE BOOKS 
Hot-Bed Sash 
3x6 ft.. 196-in. Cl £0 
6-in Glass V 1 *®* 
Made of Red Cy¬ 
press. Blind Mor¬ 
tised Joints. We sell 
Hot Bed Sash at 
half regular prices. 
Book on “Secrets of 
Success with Hot- 
Beds,” FREE. 
Gordon-Van Tine 
GUARANTEED 
ROOFING 
Flint-Coated and 
Fire-Resisting! 
Price per Roll, (IOC 
108 sq.ft. *|- 
With Architect’s Plans, Blue Prints and Complete Specifications 
Including all Doors, Windows, Exterior and Interior Finish of Guaran¬ 
teed Quality. The above offer is an example of the tremendous saving 
on material for any size and style of house, if you buy direct from us. 
Book of Plans for Houses and Barns FREE pfete u p!a 4 n8 0 for 
Houses, Cottages, Bungalows, Barns of all kinds. Latest Architectural 
Ideas. Best Plan Book in print. Enclose 10 cents for postage and mailing. 
Our Roofing is Water¬ 
proofed with Genuine As- 
i ihalt and surfaced with 
flint and Mica. Water¬ 
proof and Weather-proof. 
We sell millions of feet of 
it, at half retail prices. 
Quality and Safe Delivery 
Guaranteed Anywhere. 
Cheapest and best Protec¬ 
tion for Houses, Barns, 
Sheds, Poultry Houses, 
Grannrios, Store Buildings 
and Factories. Greatthing 
for Sheep Barns on West¬ 
ern Ranches. Every roll 
. , _ Guaranteed 6, 8or 10years, 
fcs* QSsfsfei according to weight. Easy 
to lay. 108 square feet in 
every roll. 
Gordon-Van Tine 1-Ply Roofing, roll, 91.25 
Gordon-Van Tine 2-PJy Roofing, roll, 1.50 
Gordon-Vun Tine 3-Ply Roofing, roll, 1.80 
Nails, Cement and In- PnpF 
structlons In Every Roll r lICL 
GORDON-VAN TINE CO., 
1750 Case Street, Davenport, Iowa. 
Gentlemen:— Please send the FREE BOOKS checked be¬ 
low to 
Name. 
Address _ 
Any of the following books free. Check the ones you wish. 
MILLWORK □ ROOFING □ LUMBER □ 
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Catalogs That Save Hal, You, Money ^ £»* 
Building Paper 37c 
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The prices will astonish you. 6,000 bona fide Bargains in an almost end¬ 
less variety of Millwork Styles. Every article Guaranteed for Quality. 
Safe delivery and Satisfaction by the Biggest Building Material Plant in 
America, with a paid-up Capital of $2j>0,000.00. No matter who you are or 
where you live or what you plan to do in the way of building or repairing, _ _ , 
we positively agree to snve 60 per cent of your money. Isn't an offer like Stf3W D03fQ 
this worth investigating? In writing to our Bank Reference or to the 
Editor of this paper, enclose 2-cent stamp for reply. We want you to have Tawafl Call About 
.. " dog. Write us for it today. Address* UifCu icll roll—i 
feet, 
roll . . 
About 60 pounds to a 
roll—per pound 
62 lbs. to a Of Aft 
price per roll V < • W 
Stair Newel 
Price $2.83 
Gordon-Van Tine Co. Davenport, la. 
