Argosy All-Story Weekly, October 25, 1924 — page 172: what you’re looking at

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Months FREE TRIAL CMe 4 Brings All Four Rugs on Don’t Scrub Your Life Away It’s bad enough to deliberately waste money. It’s a real sin to waste your strength and health. There’s no meaner or harder work than scrubbing floors. Congoleum ends this sort of drudgery. A damp mop keeps it clean and fresh looking. Guaranteed Wear The Gold Seal protects you against dissatisfaction and gives you an unconditional Money Back Guaran- tee. You will never be allowed to be dissatisfied. Waterproof Nothing in its material or manufacture that canrot. The surface is hard, smooth and wear-resisting. Does not stain. Not marred or hurt by spilling of hot liquids. Lies Flat from the very first moment, without fastening. Never curls up at edges or corners. No need to tack or fasten down. Dirt cannot accumulate underneath. NoSeams Made all in one piece. No fitting or piecing together. No bother or trouble of any kind. All four rugs come in one neat package, ready to put down in a jiffy. Less Work pirt, ashes, grit, dust or mud cannot grind into thesebeautifulrugs.Lovelycoloringseasilykept bright,clean, beautiful. No Expense No laborious beating, no sending to cleaners. Absolutely sanitary. The trail of muddy boots and tracked in dirt disappears like magic with the least possible effort. Jpiegel Mau, Sterne 1261 West 35th St., Chicago, Ill. t% leased. $17.95. Instead of one rug, get four rugs for less than the regular advertised cash price of one. Pay almost as you please. YF” One big rug—full 9 ft. x12ft size. Genuine Gold Seal Congoleum— mo seconds. The most popular pattern ever pro- duced in any kind of floor covering. Three small rugs to match, identical in every way. One dollar with the coupon brings all four rugs, immediately, to anyone, anywhere. a to pay, if —$18.00. Our priceis only $17 day’sfree trial. Money back, if desired. Year Regular price of big rug alone, ev here /Ours is the only house in America that can make you such an offer. Congoleum is known everywhere, and the price is the same everywhere. To get the three rugs free—four rugs for less than the price of one—you must use the cou- pon at once. This special offer does not appear even in our owncatalog. A dollar with the cou- pon is enough — then take a year to pay. Blue and Stone Gray— Famous Tile Pattern No. 408 A superb tile pattern that looks like mosaic. Lovely robin’s egg blue, with shadings of Dutch blue and a background of soft stone gray, give a matchless effect. Splendid for kitchen or dining room. No. G4C408—9 ft. x 12 ft. Congoleum Gold Seal Rug with 3 small rugs $ 1 795 to match, each 18x36in. Only — Pin aDollar to this Coupon Spiegel, May, Stern Co., 1261 35th St., Chicago I enclose $1 for the 4 Gold Seal Congoleum Art Rugs —exactly as described—pattern No. 408, on 80 ade} | sO transportation costs. Otherwise I will pay $1.50 monthly trial. If I return them, you are to refund my $1, until special price of $17.95 is paid. Street, R. F. D. OT BODO «<2 cob ap egn nerd suas the nnn wacdkdacnctes Past Off 00s... nti amnhbe paeeeiita EE IES LS WR Shipping Point.-....----------- eemerasnare ng You Wish a Free Copy of our atalog o Geivce. Bargains, Put’a Cross X) in this ‘Square ia ConmiclboOoks