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Harper's Round Table, March 31, 1896

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The War Department proposes to test the bicycle thoroughly for army use, and recently advertised for proposals for furnishing five bicycles for the purpose. Result: Bids from $50 to $85 each for other machines; our bid of $100 each for Columbias, their invariable price. And the Government selected

Columbia
Columbia

Bicycles

STANDARD OF THE WORLD

The experts who made the choice decided that Columbias were worth every dollar of the $100 asked for them.

If you are willing to pay $100 for a bicycle, why be content with anything but a Columbia?

POPE MANUFACTURING CO., Hartford, Conn.

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