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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
September 12, .1014. 
TO “RURAL NEW YORKER” READERS: 
MATERIAL BUYERS Never Had a Better Chance Than GORDON-VAN TINE OFFER RIGHT NOW—Write 
All Lumber. Mill work. Hard¬ 
ware, Hoofing and Painting 
Materials with complote Work¬ 
ing Plans and Specifications 
I just returned from a ten 
days trip to the East. I find 
that the lumber and Millwork 
sold by Wholesalers and Lum¬ 
ber Yards downinthat territory 
is pretty poor material com¬ 
pared to the Graded Up High¬ 
est Qualities we are shipping. 
Our eastern customers certain¬ 
ly ought to be pleased with the 
quality of lumber and Millwork 
they get from us. 
All this leads me to believe 
that as we advertise more 
strongly in the east, partic¬ 
ularly in New York state and 
Pennsylvania and bring home 
to the customer still more 
strongly, the fact that our 
lumber is surfaced and not 
rough, that it is even in width, 
and not uneven, that it is high 
grade, instead of knotty and 
crooked, that our plans are 
complete and easily followed, 
and that they are up-to-date 
and not ancient, we should 
greatly increase our eastern 
business. 
I find that in sections of the 
East that I was in, the old 
costly methods of buying and 
building and selling’ lumber 
and all building materials is 
still in vogue with the lumber 
dealers. 
I have come to this con¬ 
clusion after talking to men in 
all lines of business from the 
saw mill, right through the 
planning mill, the local dealers, 
the farmer, and the carpenter. 
Our lumber is all well sur¬ 
faced, h ue io size , bright, new 
stock, uniformly better than 
that sold in the eastern slates. 
Instead of using various 
kinds of wood and mixed 
grades, we standardize our 
grades and use the very best 
soft short leaf yellow pine for 
t all framing lumber, boards, 
etc. with high grade cypress 
and cedar products, where ex¬ 
posed to the weather. 
Our shipping facilities are 
such that we can ship into 
all eastern states to great 
advantage and actually show 
a nice saving to eastern cus¬ 
tomers. 
Our plan service is unex¬ 
celled and the average farmer 
in the East, if he realized it, 
would be only too glad to take 
advantage of the service which 
our architectural department 
offers both on stock house plans 
and on special plans for houses 
and outbuildings. 
Yours truly, 
Sales Manager. 
GORDON-VAN TINE CO. 
jC'ASTERN HOME BUILDERS, and Lumber, Millwork and Building Hardware 
Buyers should carefully investigate the satisfaction and savings offered right now by 
Gordon-Van Tine Company. 
Save $200 to $500 or More 
in your home or any building. Save $200 to $400 per car on lumber. Surfaced 
Lumber — not rough. Even widths — not uneven. Graded-up — not down. Highest 
Quality—not crooked or knotty. No “number 2” boards shipped as “number 1” grade. 
No carelessness. But most rigid expert inspection of every piece shipped from 
our mills direct to you. 
Our plans are complete, correctly made. Latest exclusive designs shown in $10,000 
Plan Book of “Quality” Homes. Easily followed specifications. 
“Guaranteed Right” cost estimates furnished FREE. Prices Low and Quality 
always the Highest in the market. Delivered to you promptly under the hardest com¬ 
petition right where you live and sold to you under legal-binding guarantee. You are 
the final sole judge of quality and satisfaction always when you deal with Gordon-Van 
Tine Company. Write today. 
PROOF" Specaal FaOQ Bargains Delivered 
1 llvvr ■ at Once 5n Eastern Territory 
Jap-a-Top 
Roofing 
Beautiful—Dura¬ 
ble. Surfaced with 
genuine Slate. 2 
colors—Red and 
Grayish Green. 
$2.25 Per Roll 
of 108 
Square Feet 
Price per sq. of 
lap - a-Top 
Shingles 
424Shingles$4.75 
Also Other 
Quality Roofing; 
as low per roll of 
108 sq. feet, 90c. 
Wallboard Bargains 
Wallboard is The Great Mod¬ 
ern Substitute for Lath and Piaster. 
Also tine for partitions to finish off 
rooms, attics, etc. Comes in sheets 
ready for use. Goes on dry. Cold- 
proor, vermin-proof, handsome, dur¬ 
al) I o. Beats Plaster. Costs Less. 
Wallboard costs60 perhont lesstolay. 
Lasts as lone as the building. 
Quality Wallboard 
lOOO Cquare Feet, $22 
See Special Wallboard offers in 
Grand FREE CATALOG. 
Doors as Low as 77c 
All Styles and 
Sizes — Quality 
Guaranteed 
Hundreds of 
special de- 
signs.glazed 
and unglaz- 
e d. O a k. 
White and 
YellowPine, 
Cypress, 
Fir, Oak 
Veneer, 
Solid Yel¬ 
low Pine 
and Front 
Doors. 
Shingles 
Storm Sash and Doors 
Make snug for winter 
NOW. All sizes, All styles. 
Also builder’s hardware, 
hinges, knobs, locks, catch¬ 
es, buttons, etc. “A” Qual¬ 
ity and Painted. 
All White Pine STORM 
RASH as low as 72c. 
STORM DOORS as low 
as $1.43. 
LUMBER I. car Lots 
Save $100 to $300 ! Our special Latest 
Lumber List and FKEE Book above offer choice 
to you of millions of feet of clear, dry, clean, sea¬ 
soned lumber at Wholesale Prices. Dimension, 
heavy joists and Timber, Drop Siding. Beveled 
Hiding, Ceiling, Partition,Wainscoting. Finishing 
Lumber, Laths, Shingles, Boards. Posts, Poles. 
Battens, etc. All lumber graded in accordance 
with rules of the Lumbermen’s Association. All 
Millwork of High Quality Standards, established 
by the Northwestern Sash, Door and Blind Mfrs. 
Assn. Every stick guaranteed up to standard 
quality. Estimates furnished FHEE on guaran¬ 
teed costs to you. BAUGAINS in Moulding and 
Finish. Many special designs. All latest new 
stock. Roe Big lieduotinns in 1914-1915 Grand 
Free Millwork Catalog, just out. 
We ship promptly to anywhere you live by Fast 
Freight—Safe Delivery, Quality and Satisfaction 
Guaranteed or Money Back. 
Us Ship You a $350 Home Complete for $452—a $900 Home 
-—a $1,200 Home for $908—a $1,600 Home for $1178 
When You Write 
We Send You 
ADVANCE 
PROOFOF 
YOUR 
SAVINGS 
All 
("Quality" Home Plan CO 
No. 147. See Plan Book) y****** 
All Lumber, Millwork, Hard¬ 
ware, Hoofing and Painting 
Materials with complete Work¬ 
ing Plans and SpecificnCons 
(‘'Quality” Homo 
Plan No. 140). 
$683 
All Lumber, Millwork, Hard¬ 
ware, Hoofing and Painting 
Materials with complete Work¬ 
ing Plans and Specifications 
(“Quality” Homo 
Plan No. 165). 
$908 
— Shipped to 
You Subject to 
Your Approval 
and Inspection 
Write Today 
for Grand FREE 
Millwork Catalog of 
5000 Building Mate¬ 
rial bargains and 
$10,000 Helpful Plan 
Book Showing 100 
“Quality” Homes 
Shipped Anywhere 
—Complete. 
Extra “Star A Star” 6 to 2 inches, 
Washington Red Cedar Shingles, 
price per thousand $3.10. Special 
prices on Bevel Siding or Clap 
Boards, Red Cedar Siding,White 
Pine Siding, etc. 
Windows and Glass 
Check Rail 
windows, 74o up. 
Plain rail, glaz¬ 
ed, 66 cup. Tran¬ 
soms. 4Uo oaoh. 
8 x 10 window 
glass, 8 )£o per 
light. Any size 
at equally low 
prices. Safe De¬ 
livery Guaran¬ 
teed. Dealers 
charge 6 to 10 
times our prices. 
“Quality" Paint 
An ideal Special Gordon- 
Van Tine mixed paint for 
houses. Full measure ami full 
satisfaction guaranteed or new 
paint free. All colors shown in 
free catalog. Quarts 35c, Half 
Gallon 65c, Gallon Cana $1.22, 
Five-gallon Kits, per gallon 
$1.17. 
Also Quality Barn Paints at 
evon lower prices; 75o per gal¬ 
lon and up. 
All Lumber, Millwork, Hard¬ 
ware, Hoofing and Painting 
Materials with complote Work¬ 
ing Plans and Specifications 
(“Quality” Home( 
Plan No. 106). 
$1178 
P On 100 Homes like these, and at all prices and 
■ It r of all most artistic new v irieties in handsome 
■ architectural effects we have owner’s letters 
telling us they saved a9 high as $200 to $800 or more. Head this: 
E. J. Sutton of Mass, wrote us Nov. 8, 1912, “I would like to say 
the lumber and Millwork you sent for Houso Plan No. 140 (see 
abovo, $683 shown on page 44 of our Plan Book) was No. 1 in qual¬ 
ity and quantity it ml worked out just as stated by you. We saved 
$160 to $2U0 by buying from you. A number of contractors have 
looked the house over and said it could not have been hotter 
lumber” We have thousands of letters liko this. Mr. Sutton 
lives far away. Think what you can save. 
B UILD NOW at. lowest possible cost. Or remodel. Or 
repair quick before winter. SNUG UP EVERYWHERE. 
Don’t delay. Don’t hesitate. But don’t think of buying a dol¬ 
lars worth of material till you get our Grand Offers. See HOW 
we have saved 100,000 REGULAR CUSTOMERS everywhere in 
America millions of dollars. All shown in Photographs, colors 
and descriptions with onr wonderful low wholesale mill prices in 
our Grand Free Millwork Catalog and Helpful Plan Book. No 
“come-backs.” No extras. Generous leeway on all measure¬ 
ments and quantities. 
GORDON-VAN TINE COMPANY BUSlNtsa UH1G1NALLY ESTABLISHED 1863—^51 YEARS 
S ATISFACTION, quality, safe delivery, guaranteed or 
money back to you anywhere you live on anything you buy of 
Gordon-Van Tine Co.—Roofing, Storm Sash, Storm Windows, Lumber, 
Interior Finish. Wallboard, Flooring, Paint, Builder’s Hardware, Stair 
Work, Porch Work, Mouldings, etc., etc. Learn ns thousands have that 
freight costs only a few cents per item. Anti we save dollars in price 
for every nickel freight costs. _ Bargains shown here are duplicated in 
5.000 wonderful valuesoffered in Free Catalog. Goods here In this ad 
or in our Catalogs may be ordered direct under our Guarantee of Quality, 
Goods as Represented and Satisfaction or Money Back. Three Bin Banks 
and ihe Experience of 100.000. elishted Customers Behind this Guarantee. 
la. 
New 
Before 
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England and Atlantic Seaboard States Builders of Homes — Farmers. Town 
re Had the Chance to Buy Better Quality Lumber and All Building Mate 
action. Safe, prompt Delivery Guaranteed) At Low Prices I-Ike lliese! Cord' 
Townspeople and Contractors Never 
rials (on Approval — Subject to 
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is the lumber list that 
savesyou 
$200 to 
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a car of 
lumber 
shipped 
anywhere 
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FREE 
Over 100,000 regular 
customers always buy 
direct from Gordon-Van 
Tine this way. Write 
first —then decide. We 
have saved people mil¬ 
lions this way. We can 
surely save you hundreds 
of dollars. Write us J 
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G r.Dn 0 N-VAN TINE CO., 
5484 • a»e St., Davenport, Iowa 
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