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and take out a patent in the regular way. The 
total expense, including Government and Bu- 
reau fees, will be seventy dollars. For this, 
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 awarded by 
a jury consisting of three reputable patent at- 
torneys of Washington. Intending competitors 
j should fill out the following blanx, and forward 
a it with their application:. 
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“‘T submit the within described invention in 
competition for the Twenty-five hnndred Dollar 
Prize offered by the Press Claims Company. 
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NO BLANKS IN THIS COMPETITION. 
Y. P. BROUNERY 
This is a competition of rather an unusual ' 
nature. It iscommon to offer prizes forthe best . NOTARY PUBLIC, j a 
story, or picture, or architectural plan, all the CONVEYANCER OF DEEDS: ETC. i 
competitors risking the loss of their Jabor and With WELLS, FARGO & CO,, 
the successful ohe merely selling his for the SIXTH and FEF STREETS 
amount of the prize. But the Press Claims 
San Diego, California. 
Company’s offer is something entirely different. 
Each person is asked merely to help himself, 
A. E, DODSON, | 
GENERAL INSURANCE AGENT, 
and the one who helps himself to the best ad- 
vantage is to be rewarded for doing it. The 
prize is only a stimulus to do something that 
wonld be well worth doing without it. The COMPANIES REPRESENTED. 
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architect whose competitive plan for a club 
and Accident. 
house on a certain corner is not accepted has 
NOTARY PUBLIC 
spent his labor on something of very little use 
Government Lands and Pension 
tohim. But the person who patents a simple 
and useful device in the Press Claims Com- 
Claims Promptly Attended to. 
915 Firrs St., Bet. D & E, 
pany’s competition, need not worry if he fail to 
SAN DIEGO, CA 
secure the prize. He has a substantial result to 
Theo, Fintzelberg, 
show for his work—one that will command its 
value in the market at any time. 
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The plain man who uses any article in his 
daily work ought to know better how to im- 
prove it than the mechanical expert who studies 
it only from the theoretical point of view. Get 
rid of the idea that an improvement can be too 
simple to be worth patenting. The simpler the 
better. .The person who best succeeds in com- 
bining simplicity and popularity, will get the . 
Press Claims Company’s twenty-five hundred 
dollars. 
The responsibility of this company may be 
judged from the fact that its stock is held by 
about three hundred of the leading newspapers 
of the United States. 
Address the Press Claims Company, John 
Wedderburn, managing attorney, 618 F street, 
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