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THE RURAL NEW-YORKEN 
January 15, 1910. 
Home Builders' 
Bargains 
Sash, Doors, Mouldings, Millwork and Lumber of Guaranteed Grade Offered 
by GORDON-VAN TINE CO. at Tremendous Reductions from Regular Prices! 
Bargain Offers in Building Material-Catalogs rprr 
Jl WV Don’t Build, Remodel or Repair Without Our Catalogs & Plan Books ■ ItCiCi 
i Building Material-Catalogs 
Repair Without Our Catalogs & Plan Books 
WRITE FOR GRAND FREE MILLWORK, ROOFING, LUMBER AND PLAN BOOKS! 
Porch 
Bracket 
7c 
We will supply you with Hlgrh-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 Delivery 
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 Shipping Belt that affords 
the Lowest Freight Rates Everywhere. 
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 Custom¬ 
ers 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 810,000 worth, we will save 
you at least HALF. We make the same prices to 
everybody. The Dealer himself cannot buy Mill- 
work for less money here or elsewhere than our 
prices Direct to you. 
Immense Stock! Quick Shipment! 
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 coun¬ 
try. 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. 
We Undersell Everybody 
on MILLWORK, LUMBER and 
DAACIND See Prices In Free Catalogs. 
IlWriNU Satisfaction or Money Back. 
Quality the Highest! 
JA A Buys Millwork and 
0X9 Lumber for this 
7-ROOM HOUSE 
With Architect’s Plans, Blue Prints and Complete Specifications. 
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Including all Doors, Windows, Exterior and Interior 
Finish of Guaranteed Quality. The above offer is an ex¬ 
ample of the tremendous saving on material for any size 
and style of house, if you buy direct from us. 
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Buys Material .for 
this Barn 
Including Lumber, Barn Sash and Other Necessary Material 
Size of Barn, 32 feet 6 inches by 44 feet. Contnins stalls 
for 6 horses, 10 cows, box stall and lurge hay mow. 
We control our own Product in every Process of 
Manufacture, from Tree to Sawmill, 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 Process. Joints are made with Heavy Hardwood Dowel Pins, 
glued with Imported Glue and pressed together by a Heavy Steam Power Press. Gordon-Van 
Tine Doors are Extra Strong. The Panels have a heavy raise on both sides and are sand-< 
papered 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. 
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. 
Hot-Bed Sash 
Size 3x6 ft. Cf CO 
1% thick. 
Glazed with ■" 
6-inch glass ■ 
50 PerCent Cash Saving 
on 5,000 Items—Sure! 
. 77c 
Doors . 
Windows, 73c 
Transoms, 33c 
Columns. 57c 
CornerBlocks2c 
Hot-Bed Sash 
$1.69 
If-in. 
Good Strong Door 
Price 77c 
Porch 
Millwork 
at HALF 
PRICE! 
We 6ave you 60 
per cent on Ool- 
umns. Newel 
Posts, Spindles, 
Rail, Brackets 
and everything 
necessary to 
build any size or 
etyle of Porch. 
See Porch de- 
a signs and prices 
in catalog. 
in Carloads at 
WHOLESALE! 
Save $100 to $300 on a Carload! 
We carry millions of feet of best selected Yellow Pino and 
White Pine Lumber, and Ship Direct from our yards to you at 
■Wholesale Prices. Grades Guaranteed! Quick Delivery! 
Write for FREE NET PRICE LIST! (20) 
LUMBER 
Porch 
Column 
67c 
3x6 ft., 
6-inch Glass 
Made of Red Cypress. 
Blind Mortised 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, $125 
108 square ft. V |— 
Our Roofing is Water¬ 
proofed with Genuine As¬ 
phalt 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 Protection for Houses, 
Barns, Sheds, Granaries, 
Poultry Houses,Store Build¬ 
ings and Factories. Great 
thing for Sheep Barns on 
Western Ranches. Every 
roll Guaranteed 5, 8 or 10 
years, according to weight. 
Easy to lay. 108 square feet 
• ~.. in every roll. 
Gordon-Van Tine 1-Ply Roofing, roll . $1.28 
Gordon-Van Tine 2-Ply Roofing, roll . 1.50 
Gordon-Vnn Tine 3-Ply Roofing, roll 1.80 
Nails, Cement and Instructions in Every Roll, Free. 
Roofing Catalog and Samples FREE! 
Building Paper te«ro f fi et : 37c 
Straw Board roll—per pound . . . I 2 C 
Tarred Felt $1.00 
Book of Plans for Houses and Barns 
Cpppi Contains 44 Complete Plans for Houses, 
■ ntt. Cottages, Bungalows and Burns of all 
kinds. Latest Architectural Ideas. Best Plan 
Book in print. Send 10c for postuge and mailing. 
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Wo offer you a snlon- 
Iid variety of Stair 
Material in Oak and 
Yellow Pino. Onr designs 
admit of many variations. 
Onr prices save you from $60 
to $125 on a complete flight of 
st ai rs. See Catalog for latest 
Stair Designs. 
“SueaL, 
Colonial 
Porch Column 
$1.85 
From Our Bankers 
4-Light Check Rail 
Window, 73o 
Scott County Savings Bank 
Capital $250,000.00 Surplus 8150,000.00 
DA.VBNPOKT, ZOW A 
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¬ 
sibility is well over three hundred thousand 
dollars ($300,000.00), and they enjoy the highest 
credit with western Financial Institutions. 
We assure prospective customers that they 
are perfectly secure in sending the money 
with their orders, as wo understand that if 
goods are not entirely satisfactory they may 
be returned at shippers’ expense und the 
money will be promptly refunded. 
The officers of this compnny are well and 
favorably known to us, and may be relied upon 
to do exactly as they agree. 
Yours very truly, 
J. II. HASS, Cashier. 
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Any Banker in America will tell you we are 
absolutely responsible. We refer you to the 
Editor of this paper. 
Fancy Front Door 
Price $4.80 
Write for Free Millwork, Lumber and Roof¬ 
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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 $250,000.00. No matter who you are or 
where you live or what you jilun to do in the way of building or repairing, 
wo positively agree to save 60 per cent of your money. Isn’t an offer like 
this worth investigating? In writing to our Bank Reference or to the 
Editor of this paper, enclose 2-eent stamp for reply We want you to have 
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Stair Newel 
Price $2.83 
GORDON-VAN TINE CO., iS85 Case St., Davenport, Iowa■! 
Gordon-Van Tine Co., 1885 Case SI., Davenport, la. 
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