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Would you like to make twenty-five hundred 
dollars? If you would, read carefully what fol 
lows and you may see a way to do it. . 
The Press Claims Company devotes mich at- 
tention to patents. It has handled thousands of 
applications for inventions, but it: would like to}. 
handle thousands more, There is plenty of in- 
ventive talent at large in this country, needing 
nothing but encouragement to produce practical 
That encouragement. the Press Ci ‘aims 
Company proposes to give. 
NOT SO HARD AS IT SEEMS. 
A patent strikes most people as an appallingly 
‘The idea is that an inventor. 
formidable thing, 
-)exclaims the traveler. 
HOW 10 GED TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED| 
must be a natural genius, like Edison or Bell; 
that he must devote years to delving in compli-: 
cated mechanical problems and that he must | 
spend a fortune on delicate experiments before 
he can get a new device to a patentable degree 
of perfection. This delusion the company de- 
sires to dispel. It desires to get into the head of 
the public a clear comprehension cf the fact 
that it is not the great, complex, and expensive | — 
inventions that bring the best returns to their 
authors, but the little, simple, and cheap ones— 
the things that seem so absurdly trivial that the 
average citizen would feel somewhat ashamed 
of bringing them to the attention of the’ Patent: 
Ofice. 
oe the patents on all his Soabebinns in ae 
have not. been sufficient to pay the cost of his | 
But the man who conceived the: 
experiments. 
ides of fastening a bit of rubber cord toa childs 
ball, so that it would come beck to the hand 
when thrown, made a fortune out of his scheme, 
The modern sewing-machine is a miracle of in- | 
genuity—the product of the toil of hundreds of, 
busy brains through a hundred and fifty years,” 
at the point instead of at the other end. 
_ but the whole brilliant result rests upon the} 
simple device of putting the eye of the needle}: 
THE LITTLE THINGS THE MOST. 
VALUABLE. 
Comparatively few people regard themselves. 
as inventors, but almost everybody has been 
struck, at one time or another, with ideas that. 
seemed calculated to reduce some of the little 
frictions of: life. 
missed without further thought. 
Usually such ideas are dis-. 
invention through the company. ; 
apply for a preliminary search, the cost of ~ 
| which will be five dollars 
| show his invention to be unpatentable, he can ~ 
‘Prize offered by the Press Claims Company. 

| “Why don't the railroad company make its — 
| car windows so that they can be slid up and 
down without breaking the passengers’ backs?” 
“If I were running the ut 
road I would make them in sucha way.” 
“What was the man that made this saucepan iN) 
. {thinking of?” grumbles the cook. . . 
‘}had to work over a stove, or he would have i 
1 apie how it ought to have been fixed.” 
‘“‘Hang such 8 collar button!’ growls the man 
Mita is late for breakfast. “If I were in the 
business I’d make buttons that would’nt slip — 
|out, or break off, or gouge out the back of my 
| neck,” 
. And then the various sufferers forget about 
.. | their grievances and begin to think of some- 
[thing else. If they would sit down at the next 
|eonvenient opportunity, put their ideas about 
car windows, saucepans, and collar buttons into | 
practical shape, and then apply for patents, they 
| might find themselves As independently wealthy 
as the man who invented the iron umbrella — 
ring, or the one who patented the fifteen puzzle, 
A TEMPTING OFFER. 
To induce people to keep track of their bright 
ideas and see what there is in them, the Press — 
Claims Company has resolved to offer a prize. 
- To the person who submits to it the © 
ay Seininlect and most promising inven-— 
tion, from a commercial point of 
view, the company will give twenty- 
| five hundred dollars in cash, in addi- 
tion to refunding the fees for secur- 
ing the patent. 
It will also advertise the invensn , 
free of charge. 
This offer is subject to the fol’ owing condi-. 
tions: 
Every competitor must obtain a patent for his 
He must first 
withdraw without further expense. Otherwise 
| he will be expected to complete his application _ 
total expense, including Government and Bu- 
rean fees, will be seventy dollars. 
whether he secures the prize or not, the inventor 
will have a patent that ought to be a valuable — 
‘property to him. The prize will be.awsrded by 
a jury consisting of three reputable patent at- 
torneys of Washington. ef 
should fill out the following blank, and forward 
Intending competitors 
it Oe their application: 


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NO BLANKS IN THIS COMPETITION. _ 
‘This is a competition of rather an unusual a 
nature. It iseommon to offer prizes for the best. 
story, or picture, or architectural plan, all the a 
competitors risking the loss of their labor and ~ 
‘the successful one merely selling his for the « 
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