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Show THE REO CARS me mm Reo cars have wonderful durability 4 and long life, which Is shown by Port- 7 land man. For few. if any Portland motorers have a record of more hours 4 at the automobile wheel than H. J. 4 Bleasing of the Bleasing-Granlt company com-pany exclusive monument manufactur- es who purchased his first car a one- 4 cylinder Reo. on the first day of Bi p 7 tember, 1906, within about two weeks w after the late E. Henry Wemm'. Ore- 4 gon's original motorist brought the lit tle car to Oregon. At that time there was about fifty automobiles runing the roads In Oregon, as compared with some 34,000 cars today. Incidentally the first car Mr. Bleas-inq Bleas-inq owned is still running in Portland and just last year made trips to Seattle, Se-attle, and to Mt. Hood and return. Since selling the one-cylinder vehicle ' Mr. Blaesing has used two Roes of the two-cylinder variety, two four-cylind r cars of the same make. And Mr. Bleaslng is a man that believes in hav- j Ing the best, so he now drives a new 1917 Reo Six. While Mrs. Bleasing has a four-cylinder Coupe, making seven Reos in all that graced the Bleasing garage since the year of the Lewis and Clark Exposition. |