amount of the prize. But the Press C 

 Company's offer is something entirely different- 

 Each person is asked merely to help himself, 

 and the one who helps himself to the heat ad- 

 vantage is to be rewarded for doing it. The 

 prize is only a stimulus to do something that 

 wonld be well worth doing wilhout it. The 

 architect whose competitive plan for a elm 

 bouse on a certain corner is not accepted has 

 spent his labor on something of very little use 

 to him. But the person who patents a simple 

 and useful device in the Press Claims Com- 

 pany's competition, need not worry if he fail to 

 secure the prize. He has a substantial result to 

 show for his work— one that will command its 

 value in the market at any time. 



The plain man who uses pny 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 

 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 it- is held by 



about three hundred of the leading newspapers 

 of the United States. 



Address the Press Claims Companv, John 

 Wedderbnrn, managing attorney, 618 P street, 

 N W., Washington, D. I 



IF YOU WANT INFORMATION ABOUT 



(J. i R. NOTICE. 



We take this opportunity of informing our 

 subscribers that the new Commissioner of Pen- 

 sions has been appointed. He is an old soldier, 

 and we believe that buldiers and their heirs will 

 receive justice at his hands. We do not antici- 

 i • i hat there will be any radical changes in 

 i ministration of pension affairs under the 

 new regime. 



We wonld advise, however, that U. S. soldiers, 

 sailors, and their heirs, take steps to make ap- 

 plication at once, if they have not already done 

 order to secure the benefit of the early fil- 

 ing of their claims in case there bhould be any 

 future pension legislation. Such legislation is 

 seldom retroactive. Therefore it at im- 



portance that applications be filed in the De- 

 partment at the earliest possible date. 



If U. 8. S - <>rs, or their Widows, 



Children, or Parent information in re- 



gard to pension »uld write to 



The Press Claims Company, at Washing 

 C, and they will prepare and send the necessary 

 application, if they find them entitled under 

 the unmeroUs laws enacted for their benefit. 



ADDIt' 



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JOHN WEDDERBURN, • _;_ .Managing Attorney, 



_ PENSIONS PROCURED FOR 



SOLDIERS, WIDOWS. 



CHILDREN, PARENTS. 



, Also, for Soldiers and Sailors disabled in the line of 

 duty in the regular Army or Kavyalnce the war. 



Survivors of the Indian wars of 1882 to 1843, and 

 their widows, now entitled. Old and rejected claims 

 a specialty. Thousands entitled to higher rates. 

 Bend for new laws. No charge for advice. No fee 



until successful. 



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 FOR GENERAL WRITING, 



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 For Information and free Handbook write to 



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 Oldest bureau for securing patents In America. 

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 the public by a notice given free of charge In the 



JF tkutiiit ^vmitm 



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