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ADVENTURE I ‘49° NOW Standard $100 Model a! =e 2 yee. If You Buy Direct From the Factory Or—Would You Prefer to Pay $100? Aw me Latest Model Oliver 9 aE Ne Op Se eee - 3 See e epee & We want you to be your own salesman and save the $50.50 that it would cost us to sell you an Oliver. We'll just ship the Oliver from the Factory direct to your office or home. Keep it for five days. Use it as if it were your own. See if you agree that it is the finest typewriter obtainable, regardless of price, Easy Terms Then if you want to buy it, send us 49.50 cash, or if you wish to pay in in- $tallments, send us $3 after trial, then $4 per month until $55 is paid. (It costs us $5.50 to carry vour account for fourteen months.) If you decide against it, ship it back at our expense. We even refund the out- going transportation charges. You do not risk a penny during the trial. | If you decide against it, then you'll have to pay $50.50 extra for having a salesman come and coax you. Save Half! We’d be compelled to price the Oliver at $100, as we did for over 20 years, if we still maintained an army of traveling salesmen and agents. And if we operated costly branches in over 50 cities. But now we sell the identical $100 Oli- ver for half, solely because we deal direct FREE TRIAL— Send No Money with the buyer and there are no middle- men. . You get for $49.50 what you'd other- wise pay $100 for. Remember, we offer a brand new machine, fresh from the fac- tory, our latest and finest model, the fa- mous No. 9. Over 900,000 Olivers have been sold. Ask Yourself “Which for me? $100 or $49.50? Dol care to pay double? Wouldn’t I rather be my own salesman and save the $50.50? Then I'll mail the coupon now.” It brings EITHER a Free Trial Oliver or Further Information. Check which. Canadian Price $79 The OLI VER Typewriter Gmpany 731 Oliver Typewriter Bldg., Chicago, Ill. — a THE OLIVER TYPEWRITER COMPANY, | a 731 Oliver Typewriter Bldg., Chicago, Ill. § a J Ship me a new Oliver No. 9 Typewriter for five 8 | days’ free inspection. If I keep it I will pay & g@ $55 as follows: $3 at the end of trial period and g nm then at the rate of $4 per month. The title to re- g g main in you until fully paid for. If I make cash g ® settlement at end of trial period I am to deduct B ten per cent and remit to you $49.50. Pr Hit I decide not to keep it, I will ship it back at » your expense at the end of five days. 5 @ My shipping point is .0......ccsec cee ssceeecesssscteeeessnececccees Do not send a machine until I order it. Mail ® | me your book—“The High Cost of Typewriters & @ —The Reason and the Remedy,” your de luxe cata- 8 g log and further information. a Bg Name. ..........sercsseeeseccncecnccseeccoeensncsersesscenoeeccncscensesccecenecoessoneeen : BGGORE ACROSS scccrccececcceeccssreemsssemenssseeeeeereeemeemeecneass a ee State... .ccccccsscceescacee . HE Occupation or Business ....................:cssssccessecsessecessean —— § —TTrrritetetitttttt iia) Published three times a month by The Ridgway Company at Spring and Macdouga] Sts,, New York ADVENTURE City. Yearly subscription $6.00 in advance; single copy 25c. Entered as second-class yon 32 Jan. 30th, 1922 matter Oct. 1, 1910, at the post-office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. umber 6 cCoOmiclbooks C©