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 Some interesting facts about 
 Aladdin Service for 1922 
 
 HE ALADDIN COMPANY 
 
 BAY CITY, MICHIGAN 
 Branches: WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA, HATTIESBURG, MISS., PORTLAND, ORE. 
 
 The delightful colonial bungalow illustrated here is the Norfolk, a new 
 Aladdin home shown in the 1922 catalog 
 
From 
 
 New York, Nov. 12, 1921 
 A little while ago I bought a 
 “Pasadena” model house. It was 
 exactly as represented in every 
 particular. The material was all 
 adequate, and was cut to fit prop- 
 erly. I figure that I saved at 
 least 15% over any figure that I 
 could get a local contractor to 
 
 make. 
 Very truly yours, 
 Hugh BH, Agnew 
 
 Massachusetts, Nov. 11, 1921 
 I would say Iam an owner of an 
 Aladdin house, ‘The Virginia,” 
 I bought the house last spring and 
 am well pleased with it and would 
 say all pieces went together as 
 marked and fitted finely. I believe 
 I saved from $800.00 to $1,000.00 
 in building that way. I had plenty 
 material and of some things left. 
 The Aladdin people have used me 
 fine in every way and I highly 
 recommend them to anyone who 
 
 is thinking of building a house. 
 
 Yours sincerely 
 Edward B, Doane 
 
 Pennsylvania, Nov. 9, 1921 
 
 Regarding my Aladdin Readi- 
 cut house of which I am a very 
 proud owner, the lumber is all first 
 class. The inside finish, weather’ 
 boarding and flooring including 
 the porch flooring is absolutely 
 clear of knots there is not one 
 knot even as big as a nail head. 
 As to the saving on my house I 
 saved $340.00 on the material it- 
 self and $130.00 on the carpenters’ 
 labor owing to the way the house 
 went together. Every piece just 
 fit to a “gnat’s heel,’ as the say- 
 ing is. If I was building one or 
 one hundred houses they would all 
 be Aladdin Readi-cut’s. 
 
 Yours sincerely, 
 Mrs. Ernest Shanoberger 
 
 North Carolina, Nov. 11, 1921 
 I have an Aladdin Readi-cut 
 house, the “Charleston,” and am 
 entirely satisfied. The material 
 was first class and every piece fit 
 perfectly. I feel confident that I 
 saved about 50% in cash by order- 
 ing a readi-cut house, to say noth- 
 ing of the trouble and delay I 
 should have had in estimating for 
 and purchasing my material here. 
 Every piece was so plainly marked 
 and with the numerous blue-prints 
 furnished and the manual I was 
 able to do the work myself with 
 the help of another man, neither 
 of us having had experience at 
 ecarpentering. I cannot recommend 
 the Aladdin Company too highly. 
 Everything is just as represented 
 in the catalogue and correspon- 
 dence. 
 Yours very eee, 
 R. Gibbon 
 
 Massachusetts, Nov. 9, 1921 
 
 T am entirely satisfied with my 
 dealings and results from the 
 Aladdin Co. My rough material 
 such as studding, rafters, boards, 
 ete., were about the usual run in 
 quality and strength, but all fin- 
 ishing lumber both inside and out- 
 is excellent. All parts fitted to- 
 gether as is represented and the 
 work was done by carpenters not 
 
 acquainted with the Aladdin 
 method. 
 Respectfully yours, 
 
 Edward Snell 
 
 New York, Nov. 10, 1921 
 I am pleased:to say that I am 
 more than satisfied with the bar- 
 gain I got from that company. 
 The material wis far better than 
 any that could be purchased from 
 ordinary dealers. Everything was 
 as advertised and there was not 
 the least bit of troubie iitting the 
 pieces in place. 1 did inost of the 
 work myself and 7 am not a car- 
 penter. I saved about a thousand 
 dollars. I fully recommend these 
 houses to any one desiring to 
 
 build. 
 Respectfully, 
 Jesse Verity 
 
 Vermont, Nov. 9, 1921 
 We are well satisfied with the 
 bargain we got from the Aladdin 
 Company, The material was first 
 class and plenty of it for all pur- 
 poses and went together well. Am 
 satisfied that I saved a good, sub- 
 stantial sum. The company has 
 treated me first class in every re- 
 
 spect, 
 Yours respectfully, 
 c. C. Olmstead 
 
 Ohio, Nov. 9, 1921 
 
 We are the owners of the ‘Po- 
 mona,’ one story plan, and are 
 entirely satisfied with it. My fa- 
 ther, who is a carpenter, says that 
 if he should build another house 
 for himself, he would build a 
 Readi-cut. He was very well sat- 
 isfied with our home. Everyone 
 who comes into the house is sur- 
 prised at the nice interior, the 
 layout of the room, ete. We saved 
 considerable by building an Alad- 
 din. There is no waste of ma- 
 terial at all, and we had no trouble 
 whatever putting the house to- 
 gether. The blue-prints are sim- 
 ple to follow and each piece of 
 lumber is marked to correspond 
 with the prints. 
 
 Yours sincerely, 
 Mrs. H. W. Sarles 
 
 Pennsylvania 
 
 We are’ very well pleased with 
 material and the way it fitted. 
 My carpenter told me he did not 
 realize that houses on the Readi- 
 cut order would fit like mine did. 
 In his time he has built more than 
 150 houses as contractor. Sev- 
 eral contractors told me _ person- 
 ally after looking at lumber that 
 they wished they could get lumber 
 like mine from their local dealers. 
 I saved not less than $400.00 on 
 our “Dresden” and I also had to 
 pay exceptionally high wages 
 when we built our ‘Dresden.” 
 Everybody is wild about it and 
 there will be quite a few built 
 here next year. 
 
 Yours respectfully, 
 Thos. Reichelderfer 
 
 Ohio, November 8, 1921 
 
 I purchased the “Carolina” and 
 am very much pleased with it. 
 The material was all good and 
 gave me no-trouble at all to put 
 it together. One -certainly can 
 save money in building this way 
 both in the price of the house and 
 also in the work of putting it up. 
 
 There are four other Aladdin 
 houses close by here. “The ’Her- 
 ford,” “Stanhope,” “Detroit” and 
 
 the ‘‘Dresden.” 
 Yours truly, 
 Corydon L, Williams 
 
 Home 
 
 Wisconsin, Nov. 9, 1921 
 I am very well pleased with my 
 Aladdin home. Everything is just 
 as represented and after studying 
 your plans you cannot make a 
 mistake in erecting your houses, 
 as everything is cut to fit. The 
 lumber is of a good grade. The 
 doors that we got, after being 
 stained and varnished, have the 
 most beautiful grain I have ever 
 seen. There is also a great sav- 
 ing in labor. I figure that through- 
 out the construction of my house 
 I saved the labor of one carpenter 
 because the lumber was cut to fit. 
 
 Yours very truly, 
 Arthur A. Albrecht 
 
 Vermont, Nov. 11, 1921 
 I am the owner of one of the 
 Aladdin houses and can truly say 
 that Iam more than satisfied with 
 it and also the courtesy I received 
 from you. The material was fine 
 in all ways and went together 
 without a_ hitch. My carpenter 
 said he never put up a house with 
 so little trouble. I figure I saved 
 about $600.00. You are the finest 
 people to deal with that I ever 
 dealt with. 
 Yours truly, 
 ’ A. L. Beach 
 
 New Jersey, Nov. 8, 1921 
 I am well pleased with the 
 “Standard” house. I found every- 
 thing just as it was represented, 
 and the service was very satis- 
 factory. The material was all 
 good and sound, and the pieces 
 fitted just as you stated they 
 would. The framing material 
 fitted fine. The flooring came in 
 lengths that worked up nicely, 
 and the finish of the same was 
 also especially fine. All the paint 
 and varnish sent, as well as the 
 hardware was as good as I ever 
 used, and gave good satisfaction. 
 
 Yours very truly, 
 David W. Hook 
 
 Pennsylvania, Nov. 16, 1921 
 In regard to the Aladdin readi- 
 cut houses, I have the “Virginia,” 
 and I am well satisfied, because 
 everything is just as you recom- 
 mend it. All the lumber was well 
 seasoned, my floors are just as 
 tight today as they were when 
 the carpenters put them down, 
 also every piece of lumber fitted 
 in its place. I have saved quite a 
 sum of money by building this 
 way as it doesn’t take near the 
 labor to erect a house that it does 
 if carpenters have to cut every 
 piece of lumber.’ I am _ well 
 
 pleased with my Aladdin home. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 
 Chas. F. Fritzinger 
 
 New York Nov. 7, 1921 
 Material received for my “Alad- 
 din” house, I can assure you was 
 very satisfactory indeed, and in 
 many of the items a good surplus. 
 At the present rate of wages, I 
 should reckon the saving on the 
 above to be about $300 to $400. 
 Promptness and courtesy has been 
 an outstanding feature in the 
 Company’s transactions with me. 
 Should I build another house I 
 would have no hesitation in plac- 
 ing my order in the hands of the 
 
 Aladdin Company. 
 Very sincerely yours, 
 John Keith 
 
 Nov. 
 Concerning the Aladdin build- 
 
 New Jersey, 9, 1921 
 
 ing which I have erected, I wish 
 to state that the material fur- 
 nished was found to be entirely 
 as represented, the studding be- 
 ing particularly good and straight 
 and running accurate to _ size. 
 While I put this house up my- 
 self with day’s labor, notwith- 
 standing the fact that I had had 
 no previous experience in build- 
 ing, we had no difficulty in fitting 
 the various frame members, and 
 I have been complimented by 
 
 builders upon the general results. 
 
 I also wish to state that I have 
 found the Aladdin Company abso- 
 lutely fair and honorable in their 
 dealings, and do not hesitate to 
 recommend your product as being 
 all that it is represented to be. 
 Concerning the subject of saving, 
 you of course, will appreciate that 
 this depends largely upon the cost 
 of labor in the vicinity, the plumb- 
 ing, lighting and heating equip- 
 ment, together with the nature of 
 the soil to be excavated. As far 
 as the Aladdin material is con- 
 cerned, there is no question but 
 that money can be saved, and the 
 elimination of contracts, if one did 
 as I have done, would, of course, 
 effect a saving in the cost of labor. 
 Very truly yours, 
 
 W. H? Foster 
 
 Pennsylvania, Nov. 7, 1921 
 
 We are now living in our house 
 and are more than pleased with 
 it. We are satisfied we saved con- 
 siderable. Every board was as rep- 
 resented. I did principally all of 
 the work myself and I am not a 
 carpenter. There wasn’t a knot in 
 the weather-boarding or finish 
 lumber. The Aladdin Co. certainly 
 is a reliable company to deal with. 
 We are pleased more and more 
 every day with our house and 
 every one who has seen it thinks 
 it is just fine for the money. We 
 intended building another house in 
 the near future and we are well 
 enough satisfied with this one to 
 buy our next house from the 
 Aladdin Co. 
 
 Respectfully, 
 Jas. C. Reimer 
 
 Rhode Island, Nov. 8, 1921 
 I am perfectly satisfied with my 
 Aladdin house. ‘The lumber and 
 all the other material were first 
 class and enough of it. I recom- 
 mend the Aladdin cut-to-fit houses 
 and they do fit. Every piece comes 
 marked and any mechanic can put 
 
 it together. 
 Very resp es 
 Chas. W. Gruge 
 
 New York, Nov 10, 1921 
 IT am_ very pleased with the 
 “Hudson” house. The material is 
 very good. I have not found a 
 single knot in all the lumber. The 
 pieces fit very well. I saved in 
 the cutting, but the biggest raat 
 is in the good material. 
 Yours truly, 
 Umbert Darold 
 
 New York, Oct 10, 1921 
 I wish to say that I am more 
 than pleased with my house in 
 every respect and it has proved 
 to be as guaranteed. 
 Yours sincerely, 
 
 Mr. Edw. Dietz ¥* 
 
 If more money could be saved in homebuilding the 
 
 COL BIA LINIVERSITY 
 
 iladdin system would save at for you. © we 
 
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Two new Aladdin Homes, The Marshfield on the left and the Attleboro on the right 
 Floor plans and prices are shown in the new Aladdin Catalog, which is now ready 
 
 Great Home Building Plans for 1922 
 
 HE crisis of reconstruction took place in 1921. As this 
 old year died, a new year, a new decade and a new 
 building epoch began. 
 This optimism is solidly grounded. We find unmistakable 
 signs of healthy industrial development on every side. 
 The furnaces of the great steel mills again glow, thousands 
 of men in those vast organizations are industriously laboring 
 to turn forth orders for tons and tons of their product. 
 The railroads are among the largest purchasers of material 
 in the country, for several years their buying has been nil. 
 But this condition has changed as their recent orders placed 
 for $50,000,000 worth of new construction material indicates. 
 The General Motors Company, one of our greatest in- 
 dustrial concerns, had about half completed the largest office 
 building in the world when the period of depression arrived. 
 This great project calling for the expenditure of millions of 
 dollars, was suspended. Today this huge piece of work is 
 going forward to completion. 
 
 The reports made by the United States Department of 
 - Labor from studies made in sixty-five industrial centers, 
 giving employment to the greatest number of workers in the 
 country, shows that the firms in these centers have on their 
 payroll 7219 more men at the end of November 1921 than 
 they employed 30 days previously or on October 31st of the 
 same year. 
 
 A review of conditions in the lumber, iron, steel, paper, 
 printing, textile, and automobile manufactures, shows that 
 these lines have added to their forces during this period. 
 
 The report made to Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Com- 
 merce, callsforan expenditure 
 of $15,000,000,000 to elim- 
 nate the housing shortage 
 menace in the United States. 
 
 The building records made 
 in New York, Los Angeles, 
 Boston, Portland, Baltimore, 
 San Francisco, Philadelphia 
 and Chicago last year, shows 
 aggressive energy in solving 
 this problem. Bt 
 
 A great newspaper, The 
 Chicago Tribune, immortal- 
 ized 1921 in a slogan that 
 guarantees that it will ‘‘Re- 
 ward Fighters.” Confidence, 
 with the great, big capitol 
 
 <sifits 
 
 The Dresden—Home of C.H. Merritt, Pelham, N.Y. 
 
 C, perseverance and determination have produced this 
 return to rugged industrial health. “1921 Rewarded 
 Fighters,’ and 1922 is going to be the most robust year we 
 have ever had in the home building field. 
 
 What a large statement? Yes! 
 
 But consider what supports it—this country is short 
 1,500,000 homes, a sufficient waiting market to keep the 
 mills of this country humming night and day for years to 
 come! 
 
 Depend upon it these millions of people are just as eager 
 for the comfort and security of a home as you are. 
 
 Big business has started to,move. Orders are being 
 placed. More men are being employed. The thrill of ac- 
 tivity is going to reach into the home building field quicker 
 and more deeply than in any other line. Because people 
 must have homes! 
 
 The Aladdin Company anticipating one of the largest 
 home building periods known in 1922, bought millions of 
 feet of lumber. Train loads of building hardware, nails 
 by the tons and paint and varnish by the thousands of 
 gallons! 
 
 Kvery one of these building commodities were bought for 
 less money than they can be secured for on the market 
 today. The inevitable raise in price is following the enor- 
 mous demand for these materials, in every instance. 
 
 The prices on Aladdin Homes are based .on these low 
 prices. We urge you to take advantage of them. Get your 
 home up, and have it occupied before the maddening 
 scramble comes to build those necessary 1,500,000 homes. 
 
 We have added manufac- 
 turing facilities to prepare us 
 for every emergency. We 
 have improved the designs 
 shown in our previous cat- 
 alog wherever improvement 
 was possible. 
 
 The preparations made by 
 The Aladdin Company are 
 complete. We are equipped - 
 to serve our customers more 
 economically, more satisfac- 
 torily, and with greater dis- 
 patch than ever before, re- 
 gardless of the volume of 
 business we are sure 1922 
 will produce. 
 
 $20,000 spent for new designs in the new 1922 catalog 
 
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 The Aladdin system 1s in ats 17th successful year 
 
 THE HAMPSHIRE 
 
 Colonial Bungalow 
 
 tains a number of the most 
 
 strickingly beautiful Colonial 
 Bungalows ever designed. They 
 are something new and distinctive 
 in home building. 
 
 Purely American lines have been 
 followed in this architecture. By 
 skillfully blending the best charac- 
 teristics of both the Colonial and 
 Bungalow types, our architects 
 have created a new type of home 
 design. 
 
 There is a pronounced touch of 
 Colonial treatment in every house, 
 yet the bungalow effect is preserved. 
 Only the most attractive features 
 of these two individual styles of 
 architecture have been used in 
 designing these houses. There is 
 beauty in each individual home and 
 the floor plan and room arrange- 
 ment provide the most practical 
 and comfortable living accommo- 
 
 Os: 1922 Aiaddin catalog con- 
 
 THE EMERSON 
 
 THE VISTA 
 
 A New Type of Home Found 
 in the 1922 Aladdin Book 
 
 dations possible. Special attention 
 is given to proper ventilation and 
 the doors and windows are properly 
 situated, in addition to performing 
 their ordinary functions of supply- 
 ing light and air. We know that 
 each one is a practical home, sound 
 in construction and made only of 
 the very highest grade of building 
 materials. All the skill and pride 
 of the Aladdin organization has 
 gone into these houses and we know 
 that every purchaser of a Colonial 
 Bungalow will be pleased with the 
 results we have achieved in this 
 type of house. 
 
 The prices are absolutely the 
 lowest that can be made on the 
 beautiful and sturdy material that - 
 is in them. If you favor a Colonial 
 type of bungalow for a home, write 
 for our new catalog. We are sure 
 that it contains designs that will fit 
 every test for this kind of house. 
 
 Aladdinette Plan Saves Builders Money 
 
 HAT is an Aladdinette? It is an 
 
 apartment that separated itself 
 
 from other apartments and became 
 
 a house by itself. For practical 
 efficiency, convenience and utility, you 
 cannot improve upon the modern accom- 
 modations-in a big apartment building, 
 but the undesirable features such as 
 crowding many families in one building; 
 the lack of yard space, etc., have proven 
 detrimental to the big apartment building 
 type of home. The desirable features of 
 both the apartment and the detached 
 home are combined in the Aladdinette. 
 The convenience of properly arranged, 
 expertly proportioned rooms which are 
 typical of the apartment, together with 
 the privacy of the detached home and 
 freedom of yard and lawns, constitute the 
 features that make for the popularity of 
 the Aladdinette with the American family. 
 Each Aladdinette design offers the con- 
 venience and utility of a house or home 
 nearly twice its size. This is attained thru 
 adaptation of accessories which haveproven 
 satisfactory beyond doubt to thousands of 
 homes and luxurious apartments in the 
 larger cities of the country. 
 
 The quickest and most successful 
 method to find the great advantage of an 
 Aladdinette Home is to compare one to an 
 old style home. Take for example the 
 
 Abbott Aladdinette Home. 
 
 \ It possesses 
 six rooms, 
 
 However, it has nine room 
 
 value and utility. The size of the Abbott 
 is 24x38 ft. An extra 432 square feet of 
 space would be necessary in building the 
 old type of home to secure the advantages 
 and utility of the Abbott Aladdinette. In 
 
 other words an addition similar in size to 
 that indicated by the shaded area in the 
 diagram would be necessary, in any other 
 type of home, to equal this floor plan. 
 
 That means—A saving on cost for 
 
 excavating for foundation, 
 
 A saving on cost for 
 foundation, 
 
 A saving on cost for 
 material for the house, 
 
 A saving on cost for 
 labor, 
 
 A saving on cost for 
 painting, plastering, ete. 
 
 Yes, the extra costs would amount to 
 practically one-third more, or, on a three 
 thousand dollar Aladdinette an average 
 of $1000 would be saved in cost without 
 losing one single advantage. 
 
 This is an average comparison and 
 demonstrates in a general way the big 
 
 reason for the popularity of the Alad- 
 dinette plan. , 
 
 CUTS COST OF HOMEBUILDING 
 AND HOME OWNING 
 
 The Aladdinette Home is a modernized 
 
 conception of efficiency, convenience and 
 
 utility. It converts wasted space of house 
 
 plans into utilized space, thus reducing the 
 
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Aladdin’s greatest service to you is to save your money 
 
 Kitchen Cabinet Furnished With Every Aladdin 
 
 HERE is no modern device promoting efficiency 
 
 and convenience in the home of greater impor- 
 tance than the kitchen cabinet. There is no piece 
 of kitchen furniture more highly prized by the 
 housewife. It affords a convenient and proper 
 place for things constantly used in the kitchen. It 
 saves untold steps, it promotes neatness and order 
 in that part of the house where it is most desired. 
 
 The housewife today looks upon the kitchen cab- 
 inet as a real necessity in the home. Because of 
 this the Aladdin Company furnish with their homes 
 a kitchen cabinet of superior convenience and 
 beauty. The purpose of the kitchen cabinet is 
 completely fulfilled in the well-made, practical de- 
 signs shipped with Aladdin homes. 
 
 For the smaller kitchen the cabinet is 5’ wide 
 and 7’ high. The bottom section is 18’’ deep and 
 the top section is 12’ in depth. For the homes 
 with larger sized kitchens the size of the cabinet is 
 increased to dimensions of 6’ 6’’ wide and 7’ high. 
 The broom closet in both the large and small cab- 
 inets is 18’ wide and 12” deep. 
 
 The top section has three shelves which are en- 
 closed by two panels. The lower section has one 
 drawer and two roomy compartments enclosed 
 with panel doors. 
 
 These kitchen cabinets are constructed of a very 
 high-grade lumber, with a beautiful natural grain. 
 Hither an oil or stain finish can be applied. 
 
 Aladdinetie Plan 
 Saves Builders Money 
 
 (Continued from page 4) 
 
 footage to that whichis usable. Each de- 
 sign offers the convenience and utility of 
 house or home twice its size. The secret 
 of this accomplishment is in the planning 
 combined with the adaptation of access- 
 ories now used in expensive apartments, 
 private railroad cars and the like. The ac- 
 cessories are fully explained in the Aladdin 
 Book of Homes. 
 
 LARGER THAN EXPECTED 
 
 An experienced builder paid his first 
 visit to an Aladdinette Home after night- 
 fall and was impressed by its large living 
 room and other genuine accommodations. 
 Upon seeing the house in daylight and 
 roughly measuring the exterior, he ex- 
 claimed, “I thought it was twice as large.” 
 That is the mystery of the Aladdinette— 
 the detached apartment, it is the extracted 
 essence of home, serviceable, complete,— 
 at half the cost. 
 
 5-Room Colonial Bungalow with Garage 
 
 Price includes all 
 material for both 
 house and garage 
 
 $894 
 
 ERE is a valuable offer of service to 
 H the small family who have a car. 
 Think of being able to buy this 
 strikingly good looking Colonial bungalow, 
 and a garage too, both for $894.00. 
 
 This home has five of the brightest, 
 most cheerful, well proportioned rooms 
 you ever set a foot in. A fine good sized 
 living room and a cosy dining alcove, yes,. 
 the built in fixtures are included with the 
 house. Two splendid bedrooms, a kitchen, 
 and bathroom. It is the most complete 
 and comfortable house imaginable. 
 
 Shelter for the car is provided too. It is 
 just a step from the kitchen door to the 
 garage. In addition to being the greatest 
 kind of a convenience, the garage is a well 
 proportioned, good looking building. 
 
 This remarkable value for the home- 
 builder is just another example of the 
 extraordinary service Aladdin is prepared 
 to render to homebuilders in 1922. The 
 catalog will interest you. Send the post. 
 card today. 
 
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~The Magic House «: 
 
 NCE, when I was a little girl, “long 
 back in Michigan, we lived in a log 
 
 house. It was on a farm my father 
 bought and until the new house was built 
 we lived in the old one. Built log upon log 
 it was, with mortar between. Dug-out 
 cellar underneath. 
 
 There was the front room, the spare 
 room, and the lean-to kitchen where we 
 ate as well when there wasn’t company. 
 When there was company we ate in the 
 front room. 
 
 A ladder led up to the loft where calico 
 strung on wires partitioned sleeping rooms. 
 The ceilings and walls showed the logs 
 hewed to a square, and whitewashed. 
 
 There was a fireplace in the front room 
 and a wood stove in the kitchen. It was 
 a pretty uncomfortable place I fancy, 
 although childhood saw but little of the 
 inconveniences and busied itself with the 
 adventure of living. 
 
 They began building the new house 
 some time late in the summer. Father 
 hauled the lumber from a town about 
 seven miles away. He hired a contractor 
 to build the house. For weeks they cut 
 and sawed and planed and hammered. 
 Great fun for children it was. There were 
 shavings—long, curly, yellow shavings. 
 We used to pin them in our hair for curls. 
 And chips—loads of chips. We picked 
 them up in our aprons and carried them 
 in to the wood stove for a hot fire to bake 
 biscuits with for supper. Blocks too—and 
 long nice pieces of lumber, planed and 
 sawed off in measurements. ‘Dreadful 
 waste"’ my father would say, shaking his 
 head when we brought them in to burn. 
 
 All the fall they made beautiful shavings 
 and sawed beautiful blocks. It took a long 
 time—seemed like a terrible long time— 
 to get the new house done. The weather 
 got bad. They hurried to get the roof on. 
 Then it began to freeze. They couldn't 
 plaster. If it only hadn’t taken so long to 
 get the frame up, the house enclosed, they 
 
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 cold weather came on. We had to stay in 
 the log house all winter. Mother wore a 
 shawl around her shoulders all the time, 
 and got chilblains on her feet from frost. 
 Everybody was discouraged. There stood 
 a handsome new house half done and we 
 freezing in the old one. 
 
 It was late spring when we finally moved 
 in. Eight months gone to the finishing of 
 
 Well Known Magazine 
 Purchased An Aladdin 
 Home 
 
 ODAY’S Housewife Magazine, 
 [very favorable known by over 
 half a million housewives in the 
 United States, has purchased an 
 Aladdin Home, The Brentwood, for 
 use as a testing home, and also as a 
 home for the editors of the magazine. 
 The home has been attractively 
 furnished throughout, and a large 
 addition to the house has been 
 added for use as a laboratory. 
 
 Here all of the newest and 
 more modern devices for relieving 
 the housewife’s burden are tested 
 and approved or rejected. 
 
 Each day many visitors are wel- 
 comed into the home to inspect it 
 and also to watch the methods em- 
 ployed by this magazine in learning 
 the value of the different utilities 
 for household use. 
 
 This home is located in Coopers- 
 town, New York and the publishers 
 of the magazine have advised us that 
 they would be glad to have Aladdin 
 Home owners while in this vicinity 
 to call on them. It will surely be a 
 most interesting visit, and undoubt- 
 edly a profitable one too. 
 
 a house when two would suffice under 
 modern methods. 
 
 Quite a good many pounds of sand have 
 run through the glass between the building 
 of that house where yellow shavings and 
 beautiful blocks brought pleasure to a 
 childish heart, and the building of a home 
 we have recently supervised. While this 
 
 later home was going up a little boy of the 
 neighborhood often played about watch- 
 ing the workmen. ‘‘Well, John,”’ I said one 
 day, “Show do you like this house?” 
 
 “Don't like it,’ said he, “‘Ain’t no 
 blocks nor shavings, nor nothing.”’ 
 
 And that was a fact. This last new 
 house-that I have moved into, the Testing 
 Home ‘for Today’s Housewife went to- 
 gether with no loss of time for measuring, 
 cutting, fitting, no loss of lumber. It 
 went together like—no, not like a jig-saw 
 puzzle. It went together like a pattern— 
 which is what it is. A pattern with each 
 part numbered and named so no time is 
 lost in assembling. 
 
 This house, the Testing Home for To- 
 day’s Housewife is the one named Brent- 
 wood in the Aladdin catalog. It is at- 
 tractive in appearance, and both charming 
 and practicalin plan. We have lived in it 
 seven months and we find it convenient in 
 its lay-out and satisfactory in every way. 
 Since we moved into the Brentwood on 
 April 1st, 1921, we have shown consider- 
 ably more than one thousand persons 
 through the house. We always explain the 
 purpose of our house, and all of its fur- 
 nishings and equipment. One of the first 
 things we tell visitors as they are shown 
 through the living room to the sun-parlor 
 where an attendant meets them, is that 
 this is an Aladdin House. Instantly they 
 are intrigued by the name. ‘“‘Aladdin.”’ 
 Wishes come true. Magic. They want to 
 hear about it. We tell them it is a ready- 
 cut house made by the Aladdin Company 
 of Bay City, Michigan. Almost always 
 questions are ready for us by the time we 
 are through with this much explanation. 
 
 “Ts it what they call a ‘portable’ house?’’ 
 
 “No, it is not a portable house. It 
 stands on just as firm a stone foundation 
 as any house in town.” 
 
 “Ts it a warm house?’’ 
 
 “There is no reason why it should not 
 be just as warm as any other house. It is 
 built exactly the same as any other house, 
 
 By Della Thompson Lutes 
 
 tor of Today’s Housewife Magazine 
 
 with clap-boards, building paper, siding. 
 Indeed, it should be warmer than most 
 other houses, because of the excellent 
 lumber put into it.’”” 
 
 “How about the floors? 
 wood in the floors?”’ 
 
 “The best that can be had.”” 
 
 “Does the furnace come with it?” 
 
 “No, neither furnace nor plumbing, any 
 more than with a house for which you buy 
 the lumber and contract building. You 
 simply buy the lwmber for your ‘house all 
 cut and fitted to a pattern. They do, how- 
 ever, send all hardware, lath, paints, oils 
 and varnishes. r 
 
 “Where does ore save money on this 
 kind of house?” ; 
 
 “On waste of lumber and in cost of 
 labor.”’ 
 
 “‘And you think the lumber is just as 
 good as what you would buy at a mill?” 
 
 “Tt is better. Tremendous quantities of 
 lumber are prepared at these mills. Only 
 the very best is chosen for the houses. 
 Picked lumber and seasoned.” 
 
 Iscit a good 
 
 “Then you're satisfied with this house?’” 
 “Absolutely. We are not only satisfied 
 but delighted with it.” 
 
 Questions and answers like this have 
 followed our first explanations as a regular 
 procedure. As the visitor goes through the 
 house he studies the plan, admires the 
 floors, the finish of the doors, the con- 
 venient arrangements. When he came in 
 he had heard in a vague way about “that 
 ready-to-put together houses.” But he 
 was a little skeptical. He thought maybe 
 they weren’t solid. Maybe they weren’t 
 warm. But here he has been through one: 
 that is an un-‘portable’ as the hill behind 
 it. One that is just as well built, just as: 
 warm, just as “‘real’’ as any of its neigh- 
 bors’. It may be a ‘“‘magic’’ house but it 
 is not going to fade away by any magical 
 touch, and he is convinced as to the 
 practicality, durability and desirability of 
 an Aladdin house. 
 
 There is an Aladdin near you—ask for the address 
 
A few of the new Aladdin designs 
 
 There are many surprises in store for you in the new Aladdin book of homes. Here are 
 but four of the new designs. The catalog shows many more. Send for your free copy. 
 
 THE GLOUCESTER 
 
 Moa of design certainly distinguishes the Gloucester. 
 It incorporates several extremely popular features found in the 
 very latest type of colonial bungalow. While at first glance it would 
 appear to be a one story home, the designers have worked out three 
 splendid bed rooms, sewing room and bath on the second floor. 
 
 The floor plan shows an excellent ar- 
 rangement of rooms. BED ROOM 
 
 I7'9°x10.4" 
 
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 1soxio4”, KITCHEN | 
 
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 LIVING ROOM |; ROOM.” PORCH 
 200X180" 2oxIB'0 \ I20°xIT'6 
 BED ROOM 
 143°x140" 
 
 THE WOODWARD 
 
 HE automobile has effected the architecture of the 
 American Home by removing the front porch from 
 many of the latest designs. Thisis particularly noticeable 
 in the Southern California bungalow built during the past 
 
 three years. 
 The Woodward is true to the 
 type. Its Colonial siding, case- 
 ment windows and shutters pre- 
 
 THE WELLINGTON 
 
 ULTURE and character 
 
 are expressed it the Well- 
 ington home, which is a very 
 fine specimen of English Co- | 
 lonial Architecture. The 
 
 graceful lines of the trim 
 gables, grouped windows balanced 
 with shutters, louvered gable vent- 
 ilators, hospitable but severe front 
 entrance, are creditable properties 
 of Colonial architecture. 
 
 The delightful exteriorisan assur- 
 ance of an ideal interior—one of 
 comfort and convenience. 
 
 The details are more properly 
 explained in the catalog. Send for 
 your copy today. 
 
 BED ROOM 
 OR 
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 LIVING ROOM f- 
 160X240" 
 
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 BED ROOM IZOX 120 
 
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 THE ROCKHILL 
 
 HE Rockhill is somewhat different from the conven- 
 
 tional designed bungalow. 
 
 The front entrance has 
 
 French doors with wide side lights affording an unusual 
 
 amount of light in the living 
 room. 
 
 A comparison of the price of 
 this home will reveal unusual 
 values for the accommodations 
 
 ska] BED ROOM 
 
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 |Wwexiog | <p" OxI20- 
 
 LIVING ROOM 
 240°X 140" 
 
 sent a decidedly attractive ex- 
 terior. 
 
 The interior is interesting too. 
 The catalog explains a number 
 of other things of interest to 
 
 those interested in this home. 
 
 afforded. 
 
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 Send for catalog and prices. c ROOM 
 
 140° 120° \ 
 
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 The New Offices for The Aladdin Company, at Bay City, Michigan, Nearing Completion 
 
 in our business service consists in 
 giving superior building material, 
 modern architecture and money-saving 
 prices to our customers. The expansion 
 and the development of The Aladdin Com- 
 pany rests on this foundation. These are 
 the reasons that made it necessary for us 
 to erect the spacious new office building, 
 which we moved into on December 15th. 
 This fine, modern structure is the most 
 complete administration building of it’s 
 kind in Michigan. It is a modified Colo- 
 nial design of architecture which is unique 
 as an office structure, yet it harmonizes 
 perfectly with our line of business. 
 
 (Gin our is dependent on service and 
 
 It is one of the largest and most costly 
 readi-cut structure ever erected. We 
 know that’ due to the conservation of 
 building material and low labor costs we 
 have made a 55% saving on this building. 
 The structure has three floors and base- 
 ment. The building is 92’ wide and 154’ in 
 length. It contains over 30,000 square 
 feet of office space. 
 
 As we mention this great area, it will be 
 interesting and enlightening as to the 
 tremendous growth of The Aladdin Com- 
 pany’s business to mention that nearly 
 twenty years ago the first office of this 
 company was a 16x12 living room in the 
 home of the founder of this company and 
 
 What You Get When 
 
 Aladdin customer to furnish sufficient 
 
 material for the completion of each 
 house in accordance with the specifications 
 that follow. 
 
 The Aladdin company pledges itself to 
 deliver your house to you without damage 
 in shipment, or in transit. Anything 
 damaged on arrival will be instantly made 
 good at our expense. Allsizes of all timbers 
 and lumber will be in accordance with 
 well established engineering and archi- 
 tectural standards of safety and strength. 
 
 All lumber is guaranteed to be of the 
 highest grades ever marketed anywhere in 
 the world. Every Aladdin house, regard- 
 less of size or price, comes under this 
 binding guaranty. (Exception: Sheathing 
 lumber is a fine No. 2 quality, and far 
 better than the accepted standard for 
 sheathing lumber.) 
 
 Sills—Center sill, or sills, are always 
 furnished to set into your foundation of 
 concrete, stone or brick. All sills are of a 
 size to amply hold all strains and loads in 
 accordance with engineering standards 
 and good practice. 
 
 Joists.—All framed, dressed and cut to 
 fit. All joists are of a size to amply hold 
 all strains and loads in accordance with 
 engineering standards and good practice 
 
 Bridgings.—Wood bridging mitred and 
 eut to length furnished for joists of first 
 and-second stories of Aladdin dwelling 
 houses. 
 
 Sub-Floors (for both first and second 
 stories in Aladdin dwellings).—Inch lum- 
 ber, dressed, all cut to fit. 
 
 Flooring.—The flooring used in Aladdin 
 Houses is clear and knotless, tongued and 
 
 A BINDING guaranteeis given to each 
 
 grooved, accurately matched. It has a 
 beautifully figured grain. The face is ma- 
 chined to give the very best appearance. 
 
 Studding.—Size, 2x4 inches, all framed, 
 dressed, and cut to fit and placed on 16- 
 inch centers. 
 
 Wall Shkeathing.—Inch 
 dressed and cut to fit. 
 
 Rafters.—Size, 2x4 and 2x6 inches, all 
 framed, mitred and beveled, dressed and, 
 of course, guaranteed to be perfectly cut 
 to fit. 
 
 Roof Sheathing.—Inch lumber, all fram- 
 ed, mitred, beveled, dressed and guaran- 
 teed to be cut to fit perfectly. 
 
 Shingles (Roof).—Clear ‘‘5 to 2” Cedar. 
 
 Building Paper,—Pure White Fibre, 
 tough ‘and dense, for side walls and be- 
 tween sub-floors and finished floors of all 
 Aladdin dwellings. 
 
 Side Walis.—Clear, bevel Siding, per- 
 fectly machined surface and without sap, 
 stain or any defects. Holds paint perfect- 
 ly. Shingles for side walls instead of siding 
 will be furnished for any Aladdin dwelling 
 without extra charge. 
 
 Porch Columns.—All Colonial columns 
 and square columns are of clear material. 
 
 Outside Finish.—All outside finish is of 
 high grade Yellow Pine or Fir. 
 
 lumber, all 
 
 Moldings.—The following moldings are 
 
 furnished: Crown mold, base mold, base 
 shoe, cove molding, 44 round mold, water 
 table cap. 
 
 Window and Door Frames.—Complete, 
 including jams, casings, stops and sills. 
 Built of finest stock, beautifully machined 
 
 the originator of the ready-cut type of 
 construction, who used one of the old- 
 fashioned square pianos as a desk and a 
 very common-place bread board as a draw- 
 ing table. ‘These very crude office ap- 
 pliances were the forerunner of the great 
 structure we have just completed. 
 
 You can depend upon it in all these 
 years that if it had not been proven to the 
 building public that the Aladdin readi-cut 
 system was not a practical and economical 
 thing that there would be no such prog- 
 ress made by this company as is unmis- 
 takably visible between the modest crude 
 quarters of twenty years ago and the 
 great elaborate building we occupy now. 
 
 Wy y 
 
 XX 
 
 Aladdin’s 
 New 
 
 Office 
 Building 
 
 The Aladdin 
 Company erects 
 magnificent 
 new general — 
 
 Office Building 
 at Bay City, 
 Michigan. 
 
 In connection with the erection of this 
 office building, we might call your atten- 
 tion to a problem which is_ probably 
 puzzling you. You may wonder if the 
 cost of building material and laboris going 
 to be reduced further. It was our judg- 
 ment that there would be no further drop, 
 but on the contrary that a stiffening in 
 prices would prevail, and we took advan- 
 tage of the present low prices to erect 
 our building at the lowest possible cost. 
 
 As many of our customers come to Bay | 
 
 City to inspect material and look over 
 houses before they buy, we hope we will 
 have the pleasure of entertaining you in 
 our new home office. 
 
 You Buy an Aladdin 
 
 and finished. Window frames planed, 
 grooved and bored for pulleys. 
 
 Window Sash.—Of finest clear fir, O. G. 
 molded, all edges and surfaces sanded and 
 finished with great care. 5 
 
 Doors.—Inside doors, size 2 feet 8 inches 
 by 6 feet 8 inches, carefully built of clear 
 stock, all panels selected for attractive, 
 velvety grain and beautifully finished. All 
 doors mortised to receive lock sets. All 
 front doors of special design to harmonize 
 with architecture of the house. Double 
 action door between kitchen and dining 
 room. 
 
 Stairs.—Built from selected clear stock 
 with especial attention to selection of 
 grain. Newel post, molded cap and base, 
 steps, risers, railing, and balusters care- 
 fully finished. All parts of stairs are fram- 
 ed, housed and machined to fit and the 
 whole is carefully boxed by itself to insure 
 arrival in perfect condition. 
 
 Interior Woodwork.—Baseboard, base 
 shoe door and window casing all selected 
 clear, beautifully machined and ready to 
 receive the oils, stains and varnishes. 
 
 Lock Sets.—Frosted brass. Front door 
 sets have night latch and two-way knobs. 
 
 Hardware.—Window weights, sash cord, 
 sash pulleys, hinges, nails of all proper 
 sizes, glass, putty, tin flashing and gal- 
 vanized ridge roll. 
 
 Paints.—The highest priced paint on 
 the market is furnished for all Aladdin 
 houses. It is manufactured of pure white 
 lead. Eighteen colors to choose from. 
 Your selections may follow your own 
 tastes for body, trim, porch floor, sash, 
 steps, ete. Send for color card. 
 
 Stains.—The best manufactured, are 
 supplied for inside work. You may secure 
 any effects you desire for interior decora- 
 tion. Stain and varnish, or oil and varnish 
 if you wish to finish in the natural wood, 
 which ever you prefer. 
 
 Lath.—Lath furnished for lining inside 
 walls and ceilings. Plaster grounds fur- 
 nished which are to be place around all 
 window and door openings and to back up 
 the base molding. 
 
 Outside Steps.—Steps of correct height 
 and width for design of house. All cut to 
 fit. Cellar stairs always included where 
 shown on floor plan. All dimensions on 
 floor plans are given outside to center for 
 customer’s convenience. Send for founda- 
 tion plan before starting your foundation. 
 
 Lattice work under porch floors and 
 shingle stain for roofs not included in 
 prices. 
 
 All of which is covered by our all in- 
 clusive guaranty. . 
 
 A Post Card ts en- 
 closed for your con-— 
 
 venience in sending 
 for the new Aladdin 
 book 
 
 Aladdin success is builiwpon saving our customers money 
 
 4 
 
(WATER r PAN = 
 
 Heating, Lighting and 
 Plumbing Fixtures at Cost 
 
 There are assuredly no features within the home of more 
 im'portance than the heating, lighting and plumbing fixtures. 
 Recognizing this, the Aladdin Company has made arrange- 
 ments with large manufacturers turning out quality products 
 in these lines, to make it possible for the builder of Aladdin 
 homes to secure heating, lighting and plumbing fixtures at 
 absolute factory cost. 
 
 To get the bigness and significance of this saving, we di- 
 rect attention to the fact that the jobbers and retailers profits 
 are eliminated. There are different types of fixtures, plumb- 
 ing and furnaces appropriate and practical for the different 
 
 styles and sizes of homes we make. 
 Complete details covering this service are fully set forth 
 in a well-illustrated booklet which we will be glad to send you 
 
 on request. 
 
 Aladdin Manual of Construction Assures Good Job 
 
 OW much do you know about build- 
 
 —j ing a house? This is meant as a 
 direct, respectful question. Let us 
 assume that there are many phases of 
 construction upon which you are not in- 
 formed, but as you are going to build you 
 would like to know a lot about building 
 and at the same time get your information 
 from an authorative, practical source. 
 It is important that you have this in- 
 formation as you are going to pay the 
 bills, or perhaps you would like to doa 
 portion of the work yourself if you knew 
 
 ow. ° 
 
 _ The Aladdin organization has learned 
 in many years of experience the most 
 practical and economical way to perform 
 every bit of work connected with the 
 erection of a home from the digging of the 
 foundation to putting shingles on the roof. 
 The result of these proven and practical 
 
 building methods has been put in book 
 form under the title of the ‘Aladdin 
 Manual of Construction.’’: This volume 
 contains one hundred pages treating in 
 simple, understandable terms everything 
 regarding home building from the largest 
 to the most minute detail. In addition to 
 the comprehensive text, you will find ac- 
 companying diagrams and photographic 
 sketches showing exactly how each piece 
 of work is performed. 
 
 A copy of this valuable book is sent to 
 every purchaser of an Aladdin home. In 
 addition to this, the blueprints give com- 
 plete detail as to how all work is executed. 
 The use of the Aladdin Manual of Con- 
 struction in connection with the plans 
 furnished, makes all phases of building 
 your home simple and easy to understand. 
 Occasionally we receive a telegram or a 
 letter from a builder who has had but little 
 
 experience in erecting a home, as to how 
 to proceed with the stairs for example. 
 Knowing as we do the house that he has 
 ordered, we are able to refer him to pages 
 68 and 69 of the Aladdin Manual of Con- 
 struction for complete detailed informa- 
 tion as to how to go ahead and complete 
 the work properly. If thereis any question 
 about sheathing the outside walls, page 
 twenty-five of this book contains com- 
 plete information even to the point of 
 showing how closely the nails should be 
 driven to make this part of the building 
 durable and strong. If there is a question 
 about placing the sills, this too is an- 
 swered on page sixteen which diagrams 
 and explains how foundation walls are to 
 be notched out, so as to receive the ends 
 of the sills, hold them firm and level. 
 
 If you expect to build the house your- 
 self, which you can do, because Aladdin 
 
 homes have been erected repeatedly by 
 men who have had absolutely no con- 
 struction experience, or if you intend 
 helping with the work, you cannot 
 possibly estimate the great help and 
 value of the Aladdin Manual of Con- 
 struction. 
 
 We have compiled every item in this 
 book with the greatest possible care as we 
 are just as anxious as the builder is him- 
 self, to have every Aladdin home properly 
 built. We know, regardless of the superi- 
 ority of our building materials, that unless 
 the owner gets a building job which is 
 proper and correct, he will of course be 
 dissatisfied. To absolutely safeguard a- 
 gainst this possibility, we have issued this 
 Manual which is authority on all con- 
 struction matters. Further than that.it is 
 absolute assurance that you can get a 
 satisfactory building job. 
 
 ALADDIN HOUSES SOLD DIRECT—YOU SAVE THE DEALER’S PROFIT 
 
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A Carpenter's Plaint Uncovers An Idea 
 
 Logger Determines to Improve House Building and Founds Great Or- 
 ganization---A Story Written and Printed by the Portland Oregonian 
 
 AVERY LIBRARY By De WITT HARRY—(Copyright 1921) 
 
 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 
 
 MICHIGAN lumberjack, fresh from 
 the woods, was driving along a sub- 
 urban road in Bay City when he met 
 a carpenter in difficulties. The me- 
 chanic was an old man and with every 
 drag of his saw he wheezed and panted and 
 made painfully slow progress, at least in 
 the eyes of the lumberjack. The woods- 
 man stopped and watched. He was used 
 to working at top speed, to accomplishing 
 and it puzzled him, this slow work. He 
 spoke to the carpenter who was cutting 
 along an angled line in a joist and making 
 hardly discernible way. 
 ““Why don’t you get your boards cut in 
 a mill?” 
 The ancient mechanic paused, raised a 
 palsied hand to his hot brow and con- 
 sidered. 
 
 Impatience Breeds Idea 
 
 “Tt would be a great idea, I can drive 
 nails all right, but it is the marking out the 
 lumber and the sawing that takes the time 
 I can’t saw fast, but it would not be pos- 
 sible to get the boards cut so they would 
 fit. It just can’t be done,” and he resign- 
 edly went along with his slow job. 
 
 The lumberjack was W. J. Sovereign: 
 the weak carpenter, a man named Dennis, 
 and this chance encounter marked the 
 birth of an idec that bids fair to revolu- 
 tionize American construction methods. 
 
 “Why not do all this saw work in the 
 mill?’’ reflected Sovereign, and he set to 
 work to develop his plan. He got an old 
 bread board and on this did his sketching, 
 for he was not a draughtsman. He hada 
 visualization of his scheme, did Sovereign, 
 and, though handicapped as he was, not 
 familiar with construction problems, not a 
 mechanic or a draughtsman, he set to 
 work and solved his problem. The result 
 is that four great factories in different 
 sections of the country are today turning 
 out ready-cut houses at top speed, and 
 W. J. Sovereign is one of the outstanding 
 constructive figures in the nation. 
 
 Precedent Fails to Bind 
 
 Familiarity breeds contempt and Den- 
 nis had likely long ago given up any idea 
 he might have that he could improve on 
 his trade. Hadn't carpenters gone on in 
 the same way since the birth of history? 
 Then why try to change things that were 
 good enough? 
 
 Now Sovereign refused to be stopped 
 by such little difficulties as came from al- 
 most total ignorance of the problems he 
 had to meet and he drove right through. 
 He got a picture of a house and then went 
 out and studied how they built it. He 
 watched every piece of lumber that went 
 into the structure, saw it cut in the mill 
 and then saw the carpenters cut it to fit 
 into the house. He watched them all and 
 developed his idea further, and the further 
 he went the more he became convinced 
 that he could solve the difficulty and lay 
 down on a vacant lot a batch of lumber 
 that, put together, would produce a com- 
 plete house in every detail. 
 
 He pulled houses to pieces with his pen- 
 cil and saw what held them together. He 
 analyzed costs of work and materials and 
 then started on his first attempt to pro- 
 duce his house, went out and got an order 
 on a trial basis, gauranteeing the pur- 
 chaser that the job would prove satisfac- 
 tory, and then went home and drew up the 
 full detailed plans of the house. The job 
 went to a mill, the materials were cut, the 
 house delivered in piecemeal form, and 
 the skeptical purchaser went to work to 
 assemble the loose pieces of lumber. To 
 his amazement it fitted; he did not know 
 the tricks of the carpenters trade, but 
 ananaged to drive the nails where the 
 drawings showed they were to be placed 
 and in a few weeks, lo and behold, he had 
 a complete home, and Sovereign says that 
 the first purchaser admitted, just as most 
 of the others have since, that it was as 
 nearly a perfect job as any contractor 
 could have done. 
 
 Great Factory Located Here 
 
 Less than two years ago the Aladdin 
 company, the firm of which W. J. Sover- 
 eign is president, in casting about for a 
 
 suitable location to handle their immense 
 Pacific coast domestic and export trade, 
 came to Portland and purchased a site for 
 their factory. This is their fourth and 
 bids fair to be their Jargest branch. Al- 
 ready the Portland factory is shipping to 
 a number of foreign ports and many in- 
 quiries are being received through brokers 
 and exporting firms. 
 
 Since the start of the Aladdin factory in 
 Portland this city has absorbed a number 
 of the houses, they now being found in 
 almost every section. Few persons inter- 
 ested in owning a home failed to investi- 
 gate the Aladdin plan, but there is yet a 
 great deal of confusion connected with it. 
 Aladdin houses are not sectional homes, 
 they are not shipped knockdown. The 
 scheme of manufacture is simple. A plan 
 for a house is perfected and then the ar- 
 chitects of the firm take it to pieces and 
 analyze every operation. They take each 
 wall and section of the house and make 
 fully detailed sketches and figure out the 
 lumber. Then the mill is given the order 
 and cuts the lumber for the entire place. 
 
 that are suitable. In the north a warmer 
 house is desired. In the south a lighter 
 mode of construction will suffice and give 
 added comfort. Recently they have had 
 requests from tne orient and tropical 
 countries for a simple style of house with 
 single walls to ‘it certain conditions. An- 
 other thing that they have to consider is 
 the varying architectural tastes. On the 
 Pacific coast certain types of bungalows 
 have proven popular with the result that 
 the Portland factory specializes in turning 
 these out. In addition to this they have 
 to keep up with the progress in designing. 
 
 Trend of Ideas Analyzed 
 
 In order that they may keep abreast of 
 the times and progress, the Portland office 
 has a complete architectural staff on duty 
 studying the trend of ideas so that they 
 can supply the demand. As soon as some 
 certain type of house achieves popularity 
 they work on a sketch and plan one. Be- 
 fore these plans are finally offered to the 
 public they are checked and rechecked. In 
 their experience they have erected many 
 
 W. J. SOVEREIGN, Inventor of the Readi-Cut System and President of the Aladdin Co. 
 
 Aladdins are Fords of Homeland 
 
 In the words of A. A. Patterson, the 
 manager of the Portland branch, ‘“‘Aladdin 
 is the Ford of the home owner.’”’ All that 
 is necessary is for the purchaser to inspect 
 the collection of drawings and photographs 
 submitted and make a choice. Then the 
 order is placed and the materials that go 
 to the construction of the house are de- 
 livered complete down to the paint for the 
 basement stairs and up to the stain of the 
 roof. The only thing the owner has to do 
 is to prepare the site, see the foundations 
 are in and that the masonry is completed. 
 The lumber, hardware, paints and all 
 building materials then come from the 
 Aladdin factory and the process of as- 
 sembling, as perfected with their elaborate 
 system of blueprints showing where every 
 every nail! is to go, is a mere matter of de- 
 tail. They assert that the persons who 
 have little familiarity with carpentering 
 have been successful at building their 
 home by this scheme. . 
 
 Conditions as they are in different sec- 
 tions of the country have to be met by the 
 Aladdin company and for this purpose 
 they have a number of homes designed 
 
 thousands of American homes and are now 
 selling them at the rate of hundreds week- 
 ly. It has been in the experience of the 
 Aladdin company to participate in the 
 great war emergency at maximum effi- 
 ciency through their ability to deliver 
 practically unlimited supplies of houses 
 and cantonments to the United States and 
 foreign governments. The firm has con- 
 structed complete towns for manufactur- 
 ing enterprises so that workers may have 
 suitable homes. The Aladdin company 
 shipped and erected many carloads of 
 eantonments at American Lake, Wash., 
 and were given the complete contract for 
 the erection of the officers’ training camp 
 at Fort Snelling, Minnesota. Here this 
 organization completed quarters for 8000 
 men in 26 days. 
 
 This paves the way for opening the 
 Aladdin argument for their system, the 
 saving of material and labor and conse- 
 quently costs in building. Their stock is 
 standardized as much as possible, the 
 designers working out their plans so that 
 material will be interchangeable. The 
 lumber is all cut to fit the house, the sash 
 and doors ready with their first coat of 
 
 filler and the glass fitted, the doors even 
 mortised and fitted for the locks and hing- 
 es. The plants are equipped with the 
 latest in modern machinery so as to turn 
 out maximum output in as little time as 
 possible. Quantity is their aim and to that 
 end they are developing their markets as 
 rapidly as possible. 
 
 How a firm can take a pile of rough 
 lumber and transform it into completed 
 material for a home is doubtless puzzling 
 to many. The Aladdin plan is simple and 
 thorough. Standardizing is their main 
 secret. Members that go into the complete 
 frame houses are cut to size in numbers 
 and by machinery. When orders are re- 
 ceived, the materials are assembled and 
 shipped, the guarantee accompanying the 
 house reading that it will be complete and 
 satisfactory, according to plan. To make 
 certain that this is the case, the lumber 
 bill is always overestimated and enough 
 surplus material shipped to overcome any 
 shortages or damaged portions. 
 
 Persons who have witnessed the con- 
 struction of an Aladdin house admit that 
 it is marvelous, the celerity with which it 
 is completed. 
 
 One of the unique phases of the Aladdin 
 activities is their willingness to tackle any 
 proposition, no matter how elaborate. 
 They are just as ready to figure on a small 
 apartment type bungalow with folding 
 beds as on a great commercial city. In 
 their book of designs are plans for many 
 varied homes of from two to ten rooms, 
 for garages, churches, stores, office build- 
 ings and all manner of other structures. 
 They will build a city to order, and in 
 several cases have done just this. They 
 have ground plans prepared showing ideal 
 arrangements for a village of a few hun- 
 dred, for a town of a few thousand and for 
 a small city of 10,000 population or more. 
 And they are prepared to bid, accept con- 
 tracts and undertake the immediate con- 
 struction of almost any of these units, 
 guaranteeing to have them ready for their 
 residents on a certain time. 
 
 Waste Elimination is Aim 
 
 One of the noticeable features of the big 
 Aladdin plants is the absence of waste, 
 there being no odds and ends of lumber 
 going out the rear door to the refuse pile. 
 Every foot of board is cut into sizable 
 materials and sold. They are after every 
 possible inch and figure to get the best out 
 of what materials they have. Those who 
 have watched a house in construction re- 
 member the odd-shaped bits of lumber 
 that lay on the ground, cut off and wasted 
 by the carpenters. It is just this material 
 that the Aladdin interests figure on saving. 
 Their detailed plans are so laid out that 
 each section of the house dovetails into the 
 other, so that every bit of lumber is 
 utilized. The only loss is in the sawdust 
 and it is rumored that W. J. Sovereign is 
 now working out some plan to make use of 
 that, though some of it even now is placed 
 as filler and non-conducting material. 
 
 Advocates of the Aladdin plan point to 
 its guarantee and the limited costs. The 
 houses are sold for so much and guaran- 
 teed complete, there being no bill for 
 extras to face the owner. Materials for the 
 new home, arriving at their destination, 
 no matter how far from the factory, merely 
 have to be sorted and piled in rotation to 
 save the carpenters a great deal of time. 
 The man in California who gets his Alad- 
 din catalog, chooses his house, orders it 
 and then awaits delivery, usually in record 
 time. On receipt he generally has his 
 foundation set and is ready to go ahead 
 with the erection. As soon as his order is 
 received the factory ships him details of 
 the house with all his excavation and 
 foundation information and he has the 
 ground prepared. With the arrival of the 
 materials the carpenters step in and begin 
 the erection. They generally make fast 
 time, three weeks instead of that many 
 months being sufficient. The result is a 
 house delivered at the cost of the lumber 
 in the forest plus the freight, usually much 
 cheaper than if the prospective owner was 
 to figure on ordinary building systems and 
 utilize rough lumber. 
 
 If more money could be saved in homebuilding the 
 Aladdin system would save it for you 
 
ew designs from Aladdin’s 1922 book 
 
 The Aladdin Book of Homes for 1922 is now ready for mailing. It is the most valuable book 
 Aladdin ever published. The new models are very interesting. It will be sent free upon request. 
 
 THE AMSTERDAM 
 ee is a quaint appeal in the type of home represented by what 
 is called ‘‘The Dutch Colonial.’’ It isa most interesting adaptation 
 of Dutch detail to the American Colonial type. It is one of the most 
 popular homes, particularly in the East at the present time. 
 The Amsterdam is one of the most attractive type of homes pos- 
 sible to imagine and cannot fail to 
 enhance any residential locality. 
 
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 TABLE || O 
 
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 THE PARKWAY 
 
 LL of the best features of bungalow architecture are 
 
 harmoniously included in this fine, new design. The 
 
 spacious porch 42 feet in length 
 
 has unlimited possibilities for 
 
 ’ fine floral and vine decorative 
 
 peo effects. The upper sash French 
 
 ‘i windows, and door, behind this 
 
 attractive setting give an ap- 
 
 pearance of distinction and beau- 
 ty to the Parkway. 
 
 - The Parkway has those fine 
 
 azo 180 home qualities which will appeal 
 to countless builders. 
 
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 HE Shelburne is the home of Aladdin’s chief designer. It incorporates the best ideas 
 andexperiences gathered froma great many years. Itisan Americanized English type 
 
 with stucco walls, heavy timbered eaves and porch work and attractive grouped win- 
 dows. For its size it has a remarkable amount of room and an astonishing number 
 of conveniences. Every desirable feature of a thoroughly modern home is incor- 
 
 ef porated. The rooms are all large and airy 
 and conveniently arranged and most care- 
 fully thought out. 
 
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 200X130 
 
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 20°0°X10'0" 
 
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 23'0°X 150" i —- BED ROOM 
 6 '6'X15'0" 
 
 THE WOODBERRY - 
 
 IMPLICITY of design is the keynote of the Woodberry, 
 yet it is made attractive by an unusual type hooded 
 entrance with large French door and grouped windows in 
 the living room and dining room. | 
 Plain pilaster corner boards match 
 the pilasters on each side of the 
 front entrance. A splendid living 
 room, joined to dining room with 
 French doors, fronts the house. 
 
 The Woodberry cannot fail to 
 
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 please in every way and will grace ney See a 
 the best residential section in ; aed 
 
 TERRACE 
 
 any city. 40X70 
 
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THE ROCKINGHAM 
 
 EMINISCENT of old England, the plan and appearance of the 
 Rockingham presents one of the best efforts of Aladdin designers. 
 Simplicity is the chief keynote and yet the outlines of this substantial 
 home are in no way monotonous. 
 A most interesting treatment of roof lines is manifested in the 
 photograph shown above. A large porch breaks over from the front 
 
 elevation in a most unusual and yet highly desirable fashion. 
 
 The 
 
 exterior is planned for plain weathered stucco and timbers may be 
 eee or painted according to the taste of the owner. 
 
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 PORCH ROOF 
 
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 OR general utility and low 
 
 cost, the square type home 
 cannot besurpassed. Itenables 
 the builder to use free hand in 
 the placing of rooms for the 
 most convenient use, and as 
 usually noted, a greater degree 
 of success is attained in a com- 
 fortable home on the square 
 type plan than is_ possible 
 otherwise. 
 
 The Ardmore has this advantage 
 besides its attractiveness. This home 
 has pleased a number of our custom- 
 ers to the extent that we are confi- 
 
 dent that every buyer will be highly 
 pleased with it for their home. 
 
 Aladdins Erected in Beautiful Suburbs 
 
 There is a constantly increasing number 
 of the more expensive types of Aladdin 
 Homes like the Brentwood, the Villa, the 
 Colonial and the Lamberton being erected 
 in many of the most exclusive suburbs of 
 the country, at points like White Plains, 
 Larchmont, Terrytown, and Hartsdale, 
 beautiful suburban sections outside of 
 New York City, and on Long Island in 
 Beachhurst, Bay Side and Douglaston, 
 you will find inpressive Aladdin homes. 
 Within commuting distance from Phila- 
 delphia in such pretty little towns as 
 Aldan, Bordentown and -Ambler. And 
 farther west Aladdin homes will be found 
 in exclusive residence suburbs along the 
 north lakeshore outside of Chicago, at 
 Wilmette, Glencoe, and Elmhurst. 
 
 The homes erected in these and many 
 othersplendid littlesuburbs are occupied by 
 presidents and general managers of large 
 industrial concerns, owners of prosperous 
 business houses and leaders in professional 
 life. ‘There are in most of these suburban 
 towns very rigid restrictions as to the type 
 and beauty of the homes erected, with the 
 result that these Aladdin houses are set 
 among many very costly types of resi- 
 dences, and in modesty we can say that 
 none surpass them in fine, artistic lines and 
 good home utility. 
 
 . 
 
 We have a number of new designs 
 among the larger houses which represent 
 panel what many builders want who 
 intend building a pretentious residence in 
 eed exclusive suburb or home section. 
 
 his type of home is invariably built by 
 men of extensive business experience. 
 Business training enables them to readily 
 grasp the economy and efficiency of Alad- 
 din construction. Building materials are 
 cut, matched and measured by machinery 
 much more rapidly and much more eco- 
 nomically than is possible when this pains- 
 taking work is slowly and expensively 
 done by carpenters on the building site. 
 Through these operations the Aladdin 
 
 ‘Company eliminates waste, thereby sav- 
 
 ing 18% of the good usable building ma- 
 terials that you find in rubbish piles around 
 most new buildings. But there is another, 
 and still more important saving accruing 
 to the builder, this material being readi- 
 cut is erected in 30% to 40% less time, 
 which means a proportionate saving in 
 your labor costs. 
 
 We have an especially trained staff 
 handling these larger homes and par- 
 ticular care and attention is given them 
 by that organization. We urge therefore 
 that you investigate our unexcelled facili- 
 ties to supply homes of the larger and 
 more expensive type. 
 
 Reasons for Not Giving Complete Addresses 
 
 In the numerous letters printed in this 
 booklet enthusiastically praising Aladdin 
 homes by those who have built them, we 
 feel that we should explain why complete 
 address has not been given. First we want 
 to assure you that each of the communica- 
 tions from Aladdin owners printed herein 
 are bona-fide expressions of satisfaction 
 written by the different Aladdin builders 
 whose names are signed to the letters 
 quoted. 
 
 We have found from experience where 
 the complete address has been given that 
 there are times particularly in cities and 
 thickly populated centers, that a number 
 of people would call sometimes on the 
 same day requesting the privilege of ex- 
 amining the interior of their homes. 
 Owners at times found that it was incon- 
 venient to allow this, interfering with 
 programs that they had arranged or per- 
 haps brought visitors to their home at a 
 time when they could not be disturbed. 
 
 As it is a courtesy to you and particu- 
 larly to The Aladdin Company to have 
 one of these owners allow an inspection of 
 their premises, we have found it a better 
 policy to take the owners convenience into 
 
 consideration before subjecting them to a 
 number of calls which we would of course 
 have no right to do. 
 
 Nevertheless, we assure you that every- 
 one of these Aladdin house owners are 
 perfectly willing and anxious to extend the 
 courtesy of inspecting their home and at 
 the same time tell you frankly of their ex- 
 perience and their impression regarding 
 the building of our type of house. 
 
 Therefore if there is any letter or letters 
 among those we have quoted that is of 
 interest to you and you would like to 
 examine their home or discuss it with 
 them, we will very promptly and cheer- 
 fully arrange it so that you can get in 
 touch with these people. 
 
 Another consideration which restrains 
 us in quoting complete addresses is that 
 these people being home owners represent 
 a very desirable list for circularizing 
 features, and personal solicitations which 
 we have found that people frequently 
 object to, and we therefore cannot be 
 contributing factors in subjecting our 
 customers to anything that might develop 
 into an annoyance. 
 
 Outside Branch Offices 
 
 The housing shortage and the tremen- 
 dous increase in home building has led us 
 to establish branch sales offices in different 
 sections of the country, each of these 
 offices in charge of:a manager who is an 
 expert in home building and construction. 
 We have found frequently that prospec- 
 tive builders can relate their housing pro- 
 blem verbally with a great deal more 
 satisfaction to them and ourselves, than 
 they possibly can through the medium of 
 correspondence. 
 
 In the branch sales offices, we have 
 established in addition to our four mills, 
 it is possible for anyone, regardless of 
 where they live, to visit some one of these 
 points and secure the fullest and most 
 complete information regarding their 
 building problems. 
 
 The Aladdin Company tenders you a 
 cordial invitation to visit any one of these 
 offices or our mills, and we know that these 
 facilities will be of great assistance to you 
 in selecting and building a home. We as- 
 sure you that that help will be given you 
 cheerfully and thoroughly. 
 
 For your information we are tabulating 
 a list of the addresses of the different 
 Aladdin Mills and Branch Offices—+ 
 
 The Aladdin Co., Bay City, Michigan. 
 
 The Aladdin Co., Wilmington, N. C. 
 
 The Aladdin Co., Hattiesburg Miss., 
 
 The Aladdin Co., Portland, Ore. 
 
 The Aladdin Co., Consolidated Realty 
 Bldg., Cor. 6th & Hill Sts., Los Angeles, 
 
 alif. 
 
 The Aladdin Co., 502 Bulletin Bldg., 
 Philadelphia, Pa. 
 
 The Aladdin Co., 11th floor Marbridge 
 Bldg., 47 W. 34th St. Cor. Broadway, 
 New York, N. Y. 
 
 The Aladdin Co., 412 Stovall Bldg., 
 Tampa, Fle. 
 
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 The New Catalog 
 
 Aladdin’s new catalog consists of one 
 hundred twenty-eight pages of the most 
 interesting information for the home- 
 builder. It is fresh from the press at the 
 present time, and a number of people who 
 have seen it say it is the best book on 
 building information they have seen. Re- 
 quests will be taken care of promptly up- 
 on receipt. Send your request to-day. 
 
 At the usual price of $500.00 for a set 
 of plans and work drawings for an Aladdin 
 Home, Aladdin has spent more than $20,- 
 000.00 for new designs for the 1922 cata- 
 log. The assortment of the many designs 
 range from the small bungalow to the 
 large Colonial home, Dutch Colonial 
 types, California Bungalows, Colonial 
 Bungalow designs and pure dwelling house 
 types of modern design will be found in 
 the newer creations. 
 
 The catalog pictures each home, also 
 the floor plan with the price for all ma- 
 
 terial. There is no charge for copy of this 
 book. It will be sent you upon your re- 
 quest. Use the posteard enclosed. 
 
 Photos of Aladdin Homes 
 
 The Advertising Department have pho- 
 tographs of Aladdin Homes they will loan 
 to prospective customers for their in- 
 spection. 
 
 If you are interested in a home in The 
 Aladdin Catalog, and desire photographs 
 for inspection, they will be glad to send 
 them to you. 
 
 In some cases, more than one view of 
 the house is on hand, and in these cases all 
 the views we have are loaned to the cus- 
 tomer. If you are interested, send your 
 request and the photos will be sent to you 
 promptly. 
 
 Aladdins come direct from forest—no middleman profit 
 
Your home is in Aladdin’s 1922 book 
 
 Send for a copy of the new Aladdin Catalog, which will be sent to you free. Many beautiful, 
 practical home designs fresh from the designer’s work table. Send the post card enclosed. 
 
 ‘ 
 
 , THE STANFORD 
 ‘THE WESTLAKE ERE is shown a modified California bungalow with 
 
 Tes Dutch- “Colonial type of architecture has made a strong appeal to American 
 
 Home Builders. This is especially true in certain localities widely situated from Colonial features. 
 each other. There are sectionsin the suburbs of New York City where this type A t Aig: F 
 predominates and the same will be found in Seattle. The exterior is made interesting by a pergola type port 
 The formation of the roof reduces the apparent height, while not sacrificing interi- - 
 or space. This cocher which extends from the 
 has a tendency 5 
 to hold the porch over the driveway. Large 
 house close to | 
 7? the ground in 
 appearance. 
 The cd bone es 
 _ ance and plan ae ‘ 
 of the Westlake | soxise \_ ‘0 and air. There are three Aa ) ae tals 
 make it a fine, A 
 
 © comfortable bed rooms with ample closets for [eam 
 . and certainly a 4 axe * 
 ™ most desirable linen and cloaks. c 
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 Le aes 2 This bungalow will be found to [oxen | ome 
 be a splendid value in everything 
 
 that goes to make a real Home. 
 
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 THE WESTWOOD 
 ? HE Langdon is a square type home, the virtues of 
 HE Westwood is a beau- which are well known by builders generally. The gen- 
 
 oe eee Vist? thy. of 2 eral features of this design are the spacious porch and un- 
 most attractive building site. asiially largesliving 
 
 om ene exterior design and room stretching across 
 the interior plan leave noth- ihebentiroktronteottihe 
 ing undone for the attrac- Aarnoor 
 
 tiveness and utmost conven- orig aedesiguetor 
 
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National Homebuilding Service 
 
 unmatched facilities to ship 
 
 homes directly and at the 
 lowest possible freight rates. In 
 addition these facilities mean that 
 it is possible for us to get your 
 home on your building site with 
 the greatest possible dispatch. 
 
 The Aladdin 
 
 [Nees Aladdin Company have 
 
 Company’s four 
 
 large mills are located in the center 
 of the greatest timber-producing 
 areas of the United States, being 
 centrally located in every instance 
 to the source of supply of raw ma- 
 
 terials. We have but minimum 
 charges to pay on those materials 
 coming to our mills where machin- 
 ery quickly and economically con- 
 verts them into shape for building 
 use. 
 
 Each mill is a complete unit 
 which is prepared to render all of 
 the helpful features connected with 
 our service. Weare printing here- 
 with the territory and states em- 
 braced in each of these divisions. 
 To handle all details connected 
 with the selection of your home, 
 
 we suggest that you read over the 
 area covered by these divisions, 
 which will enable you according to 
 your location to communicate with 
 the Aladdin mill and office who 
 will handle your transaction with 
 the greatest satisfaction to you. 
 
 NORTHERN DIVISION—The home 
 offices and mills of THE ALADDIN 
 COMPANY are at Bay City, Michigan. 
 Established a number of years ago, the 
 mills of the Northern Division have a ca- 
 pacity that willserve this territory prompt- 
 ly and efficiently. 
 
 Located on the Great Lakes, the mills 
 at Bay City are provided with excellent 
 
 ™’ 
 
 shipping facilities by water and also by 
 land. Five railroads have tracks leading 
 to THE ALADDIN COMPANY’S load- 
 ing platforms at these mills, thus making 
 shipping conditions ideal. 
 
 The Northern Division is comprised of 
 the following states: Maine, New Hamp- 
 shire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode 
 Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, New 
 York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Indiana, 
 Ohio, Illinois, Minnesota, lowa, Wiscon- 
 sin, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Ken- 
 tuky, and West Virginia. \ 
 
 SOUTHEASTERN DIVISION — At 
 Wilmington, North Carolina, on the coast 
 of the Atlantic Ocean, are located the gen- 
 eral offices and mills of the Southeastern 
 Division, comprising the states of North 
 Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Flor- 
 ida, Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware. 
 
 A thriving sea coast city of thirty-five 
 thousand people, Wilmington is practically 
 from a geographical standpoint the center 
 or hub of the southeastern division. From 
 Wilmington prompt and efficient service 
 will be given to all ALADDIN customers 
 of the southeastern division with nearly 
 all shipping points of the division less than 
 eighteen hours distance from the offices 
 and mill. é 
 
 SOUTH CENTRAL DIVISION—The 
 general offices and mills of the South 
 Central Division of The Aladdin Co. are 
 at Hattiesburg, Mississippi. 
 
 From these mills every pointin the south 
 central division comprising the states of 
 Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkan- 
 sas, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Texas and New 
 Mexico lies in a straight line making ship- 
 ping facilities unexcelled. 
 
 With an abundant supply of standing 
 timber in easy access and with shipping 
 facilities par excellence, the home builders 
 of the south central division are securing 
 the best possible service. 
 
 \ 
 
 WESTERN DIVISION — The offices 
 and mills of The Aladdin Co., Western 
 Division, are located in Portland, Oregon. 
 
 These offices and mills save western 
 builders of Aladdin homes considerable in 
 the way of freight alone. They eliminate 
 days of time, thousands of miles of hauling 
 and consequently a great dea] in freight 
 charges. Fully 80 percent of the correspon- 
 dence from our customers of the west will 
 reach. us within twenty-four hours after 
 it issent on its way. 
 
 The Western Division includes the fol- 
 lowing states: Washington, Oregon, Cali- 
 fornia, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, 
 Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, South 
 Dakota and Colorado. Residents of these 
 states should send inquiries or other cor- 
 respondence directly to THE ALADDIN 
 COMPANY, Portland, Oregon. 
 
 . New Summer Cottage De- 
 signs Shown in the 1922 
 Aladdin Book 
 
 Ss" vag 
 
 The Alad- 
 din Catalog 
 containsa 
 number of 
 attractive 
 summer cot- 
 tage designs. 
 Acopy ofthis 
 book will be 
 sent to you 
 free. Send 
 the post card 
 enclosed. 
 
Oofe Vou Budld Cet thie Book 
 
 Aladdin’s 
 New Book 
 
 of Homes 
 for 1922 
 
 Send for your copy now 
 Sent free upon request 
 
 You owe it to your family and your- 
 self to secure the most desirable home 
 at the lowest price possible — this 
 book will point the way. 
 
 CE ey 
 
 ILL you help onl 
 us make your home 
 in 1922 a reality? 
 
 Can you spare us enough time to 
 do for you that which was done for 50,000 
 other Aladdin Customers — helping them to own their 
 homes at a saving in cost? 
 
 The greatest homebuilding organization in the world 
 
 An example of Aladdin Service is noted in Mr. A. L. Head’s letter. 
 He Says:— 
 
 Dear Sir:— 
 Iam pleased to state that we are more than satisfied with our Readi-cut 
 home from the Aladdin Company. I had the carpenter figure up the cost 
 
 will help you— 
 
 The experienced crews of the four biggest readi-cut house mills can 
 help you— 
 
 The experience of over 50,000 Aladdin customers living in Aladdin 
 _ Homes can help you— 
 
 But— 
 
 You must give them the opportunity! 
 
 The first and big message to the home builder from this organiza- 
 tion of building experts is found in the 1922 Edition of the book 
 “Aladdin Homes.” 
 
 It points the way to a more satisfactory, quicker method of build- 
 ing—at a saving to the builder. 
 
 It shows how this great organization’s service has spread over the 
 country due to the money-saving advantages of the Aladdin System. 
 
 And it also shows the latest work of Aladdin’s designers in new 
 home plans for 1922. 
 
 of the material if I bought here in town, and I am just Three Hundred and 
 Twenty Five Dollars ($325.00), ahead of the game by building the Aladdin 
 way. 
 
 The material is perfect in every way, and was pleased with the wonderful 
 selection of lumber I received. The carpenters were also surprised at the 
 material. My home was put up in December, and in three weeks it was 
 practically finished. Everything went together in perfect shape. The doors 
 and interior finish are excellent in every way. 
 
 I expect to put up another home in the near future and it is going to be an 
 Aladdin. If anyone could only see my home for themselves, they would be 
 convinced without a doubt that the Aladdin way of construction is the last 
 word in homebuilding. 
 
 Yours very truly, 
 A. L. HEAD. 
 
 The enclosed Post Card will possibly mean a saving of $325.00 or 
 
 more to you, too. 
 
 Send it to us quickly. 
 We will start work on your problem immediately. 
 
 The Aladdin Company 
 
 South Central Division 
 Offices and Mills 
 
 Hattiesburg, Mississippi 
 
 Northern Division 
 Offices and Mills 
 
 Bay City, Michigan 
 
 Wilmington, N.Carolina 
 
 Western Division 
 Offices and Mills 
 
 Portland, Oregon 
 
 South Eastern Division 
 Offices and Mills 
 
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 meres 
 
 From Aladdin 
 
 Pennsylvania, Nov. 7, 1921 
 
 I wish to say that material for 
 our Aladdin readi-cut house ar- 
 rived in first class condition and 
 we are perfectly satisfied with it. 
 You sent us the very best mate- 
 rial and we had no trouble what- 
 ever in putting it together as the 
 pieces were cut to fit. My husband 
 and I did some of the work dur- 
 ing his vacation and neither one 
 of us had ever had any experi- 
 ence in carpenter work before. 
 Dozens of people went through our 
 house and every ‘one liked it. 
 Quite a few of our friends say 
 
 they are going to build one like 
 it this coming | spring. Ours is 
 the “Plymouth.” If we had built 
 
 it the regular way it would have 
 cost us double. We had two young 
 men to assist us with the carpen- 
 ter work, the second week. They 
 also did the painting, and said 
 they never saw finer lumber. ‘The 
 windows and doors are lovely and 
 T aSsure you when we build again 
 it will be an Aladdin. 
 Yours sincerely, 
 Mrs. Walter Hovey 
 
 Ohio, Nov. 8, 1921 
 
 I bought and built the Aladdin 
 “Florence House” in,1918 when 
 prices were soaring. ‘I have one 
 of the finest homes in our country. 
 IT am more than satisfied with the 
 bargain and saved from six to 
 eight hundred dollars on the deal. 
 I bought a few sacks of rock lime 
 and had the walls sand finished 
 and then had them painted and 
 decorated by an _ expert. Each 
 room is finished differently and it 
 makes a beautiful job. My mate- 
 rial was really better than any I 
 see contractors using. It took my 
 man only six hours to sort it and 
 I had every piece right where he 
 eould put his hands on it and it 
 fit perfectly. Any one can work at 
 putting it up as every move is 
 right before you. I worked every 
 forenoon -with my man and my 
 boys helped lay the sub-floor 
 sheeting, shingles and lath. Had 
 a surplus of all kinds of lumber. 
 
 Very respectfully yours, 
 
 W. Sarr 
 
 Pennsylvania, Nov. 8, 1921 
 
 I am more than satisfied with 
 my new Aladdin home. The ma- 
 terial was A No. 1. The carpen- 
 ters have had no trouble in fitting 
 the pieces. Our home is the 
 *Pomeroy.” Three carpenters put 
 up two houses, one double and one 
 single garage, and had them com- 
 pleted and ready to move in, in 
 fty working days. We investi- 
 gated the building problem before 
 we bought our Readi-cut House 
 and found that we could buy the 
 lumber for the whole house Readi- 
 cut for what the frame would cost 
 not Readi-cut from the lumber 
 dealer. If we were building an- 
 other house it would be an Alad- 
 din. 
 
 Sincerely yours, 
 Reed M. Long 
 
 Pennsylvania, Nov. 11, 1921 
 I am satisfied with the Aladdin 
 Company’s s Readi-cut system. The 
 lumber is of the best quality and 
 the pieces fit nicely in place. I 
 think I saved a good deal by using 
 the Aladdin method. We were 
 about three weeks building, and 
 it took about twenty hours to 
 
 plaster. 
 x otre: respectfully 
 Wm. Chamberlain 
 
 Michigan, Nov. 6, 1921 
 
 We built and own an Aladdin 
 Readi-cut house and are _ well 
 pleased with the bargain. There 
 was no waiting for material and 
 all material was better than we 
 could have purchased here—if we 
 could have secured it at all. We 
 had plenty of advice not to buy a 
 readi-cut house, but we found it 
 
 very satisfactory. We surely 
 saved time and much expense for 
 labor building by this method. 
 
 We placed our order on the 21st of 
 May, the car was shipped the 25th 
 and reached here the 28th. My 
 husband with the help of just 
 common labor and sometimes my- 
 self put up the framework. We 
 employed two carpenters just two 
 weeks and the house was ready 
 to be occupied July 1st. We would 
 not think of building-any other 
 way, and could build again much 
 easier than this time, for the ex- 
 perience taught us a great deal 
 about building. 
 
 Sincerely yours, 
 
 Mrs. Glenn G. Henry 
 
 Ohio, Nov. 7, 1921 
 In regard to our Aladdin house 
 will say we are well satisfied. The 
 material was as represented and 
 fit well. We feel that it was 
 cheaper than we could have gotten 
 it here. We also ordered a garage 
 with the house, and our neighbor 
 got his of our local dealer and 
 they are side by side which gives 
 a good chance to compare them 
 and I feel safe in saying I saved 
 $100.00 on that alone. We. have 
 also installed one of the Aladdin 
 furnaces which is all that could 
 
 be desired at a saving of $75.09. 
 
 Yours truly, 
 H. L. Rasor 
 
 Pennsylvania, Nov. 7, 1921 
 Two years ago I built an Alad- 
 din Readi-cut house, a ‘‘Pomona” 
 No. 2, and I am very well satis- 
 fied with it. The material was of 
 No. 1 quality and fit in place 
 splendidly. I am satisfied that I 
 saved money in carpenter work 
 and the saving of wastage in ma- 
 terial as I bought only what was 
 absolutely needed. I can heartily 
 recommend this method of build- 
 ing and the Aladdin people for 
 honesty and fair and square deal- 
 
 ing. 
 Yours truly, 
 W. Weber 
 
 Michigan, Nov. 7, 1921 
 IT am satisfied with my bargain 
 with your company. The lumber 
 is fine and everything was just as 
 represented. It went together like 
 clock work. I.saved several hun- 
 dred dollars in carpenter work 
 alone. The doors and windows, 
 there are none better, The hard- 
 ware is fine. The treatment the 
 company gave me no one could 
 ask better. One can make no 
 mistake in buying one of the Alad- 
 din houses. 
 Very truly yours, 
 Capt. Harrison Miller 
 
 Michigan, Nov. 7, 1921 
 With reference to the Aladdin 
 Readi-cut house I put up this sea- 
 son, the material was better than 
 I could purchase here. Lumber 
 left and found you very fair in 
 your dealings. Any good carpen- 
 ter can put these houses together. 
 All the material was of the best. 
 
 Yours very truly, 
 F. M. Crowe 
 
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 iBiA URVERSTY: : 
 
 Home Owners 
 
 Pennsylvania, Nov. 8, 1921 
 I am the owner of the ‘“Po- 
 mona” and dare say I am more 
 than satisfied with the material 
 and the treatment the Aladdin Co. 
 gave me. Not one piece which 
 was cut to fit needed any altera- 
 tions and all of it was A No. 
 goods. In reference to saving 
 money in building the Aladdin 
 way let me make the same state- 
 ment. a man gave me who is well 
 versed in lumber and mill work. 
 He said I saved from $1,500.00 to 
 $2,000.00 on my house. Of course 
 I always think the local lumber 
 dealer in this place is rather high 
 with his prices. As to the ap- 
 pearance of the house, I live in 
 the suburbs of a town of about 
 5,000 inhabitants and the ‘“Po- 
 mona” is pronounced the prettiest 
 bungalow in the vicinity. 
 Yours sincerely, 
 Sam’l C, Sheaver 
 P. S.. There was plenty of lum- 
 ber and material for everything 
 and some left. over. 
 
 Ohio, ‘Nov. 16, 1921 
 
 We are much pleased with our 
 new home and can gladly recom- 
 mend Aladdin houses. The lum- 
 ber furnished was good and there 
 was sufficient of it. The pieces 
 fit nicely, you may know as the 
 work on our home was done by 
 amateurs and not regular carpen- 
 ters. The men of the family did 
 all the work, except plastering, 
 and. our reason for choosing a 
 Readi-cut house was to save car- 
 penter expense, and feel that 
 $200.00 ' would not cover’ the 
 amount saved’ on labor, beside a 
 considerable amount saved on 
 lumber. 
 
 -s Yours truly, 
 
 a Mrs. S. J. Rigdon 
 
 Ohio, Nov. 10, 1921 
 I am. very well pleased with 
 the house I purchased. The mate- 
 rial is very good and is much 
 better than can be obtained in 
 this town. The pieces all fit in 
 their place. I saved several hun- 
 dred dollars by sending for the 
 Readi-cut house. ‘The inside finish 
 lumber is exceptionally beautiful. 
 Everything came as described in 
 the catalog. If I were building 
 again I would send for an Alad- 
 
 din house. 
 Sincerely yours, 
 Wm. Mansfield 
 
 Ohio, Nov. 8, 1921 
 Will say we are well pleased 
 
 with our Aladdin Readi-cut home. 
 We found our material of the very 
 best. My husband and I did a 
 good share of the building. Will 
 say I do not believe one could do 
 better than to purchase an Alad- 
 din Readi-cut home. If we ever 
 build again will certainly build 
 another Aladdin Readi-cut home. 
 There are several of these homes 
 here and have never found any one 
 but what liked them. 
 
 Respectfully, 
 
 Leonora Armstrong 
 
 Iowa, Nov.. 7, 1921 
 I am very well pleased with my 
 purchase from the Aladdin Com- 
 pany, and saved at least Five Hun- 
 dred Dollars ($500.00). The mate- 
 rial goes together very nicely, and 
 I take great pleasure in recom- 
 mending the Aladdin Company as 
 a money-saver. 
 Yours truly, 
 A. J. Larson 
 
 . The model I built was 
 - No. LA, 
 
 Pennsylvania, Now 28, 1921 
 In regards to the Aladdin Readi- 
 eut house, I purchased from you 
 would say I am more than pleased 
 with it. The material was all 
 No. 1, and could not have been 
 any better, everything fit per- 
 fectly. A young man and I built 
 the house and neither is an ex- 
 perienced carpenter. We had no 
 trouble whatever. I saved from 
 two to three hundred dollars at 
 least. We had plenty material of 
 all kinds including paint, shingles 
 
 and everything. 
 Yours respecte? 
 - Donelson 
 
 Connecticut, Nov. 28, 1921: 
 
 I hope you will ‘excuse me for 
 not writing sooner. I just got 
 married November 9th, and moved 
 into my new bugalow (‘‘Pom- 
 eroy”’) and I wish to say that it 
 is a handsome home and admired 
 by. everybody. There are two 
 more going to be built near me 
 next spring as they have engaged 
 the carpenters that built mine. 
 Everything I received was in good 
 condition and fitted perfectly. The 
 finishing lumber in your houses 
 can’t be beat. The doors in my 
 house are something great, ad- 
 mired by everyone who has been 
 here. The carpenters that built 
 it said that everything was per- 
 fect and that I saved by building 
 by that method. 
 
 Yours sincerely 
 Hugh Fitzpatrick: 
 
 New York, Nov. 7, 1921 © 
 I bought the “Dresden” house 
 and it was. satisfactory. The 
 lumber was very good quality and 
 there was plenty of material for 
 everything. The pieces fit in place 
 perfect. On the whole I think I 
 saved about $200.00. I was per- 
 fectly satisfied with everything. 
 Yours truly, 
 LOSER Jee li I 
 
 Ohio;* Nov. 7, 1921 
 
 We purchased the “Warren” on 
 September 6, 1921, and it arrived 
 in first class order September 19, 
 1921. ‘The material is all first 
 class and the pieces all fit to a T. 
 We saved at least $500.00 on this 
 building. We had a young man 
 put the house up for us that has 
 done a lot of carpenter work and 
 he said it is all excellent lumber 
 and all cut just right. We are 
 so pleased with the doors, and find 
 the hardware very good and also 
 the paint. We had several bun- 
 dies of lath and shingles over and 
 some 2x4 and 2x6 and some sheet- 
 ing. One cannot help being pleased 
 with Aladdin houses. 
 
 Mrs. Julia Armstrong 
 
 Pensylvania, Nov. 10, 1921 
 The lumber house is the best 
 I have ever seen—free of all knots. 
 I had no trouble in getting it to- 
 gether and I saved about $750.00. 
 “Venus 
 
 Very truly yours, 
 Frank O, Cooper 
 
 Iowa, Nov. 8, 1921 
 We have one of the Aladdin 
 houses and are well pleased with 
 it. Think I saved about $200.00 
 and know that we got a better 
 class of lumber and the hardware 
 could not be beaten. 
 fit to its place perfectly. 
 Yours truly, x 
 W. S. Pumphrey_ 
 
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