The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-06-15
PRIZES ON PATENTS
THE WINNER HAS A CLEAR
GIFT OF 50, 500, AND THE
losers HAVE PATENTS
THAT MAY BRING THEM IN
STILL MORE.

STILL MORE.
Would you like to make twenty-five hun
dred dollars! If you would, read carefully
what lolloWs ana you may see u way 10
do 1t.
The Press Claims Company devotes
much attention TO patents 1t has handled
thousands OF applications for inventions,
but 1t would liketo handle thousands more.
There IS plenty of inventive talent at
large In this country, needing nothing
but announcement to produce practical
results. That encouragement the Press
Claims Company proposes TO give.
Nor SO HARD AS IT SEEMS.
A patent strikes most people as an APP
pallinrly formidable thing. The idea is
that An inventor must be a natural genius.
like Edison or Bell; that he must devote
years TO deiylng In complicated mechanical
problems and that he must spend a for
tune on delicate experiments before he can
get new device TO patentable degree OF
perfection. This delusion the company
desires to dispel. 1t desires TO get into
che public clear comprehension of the
TACT that it is not the great, complex, and
expensive inventions that bring the best
returns to their authors, but the little, sim
pie and cheap ones-the things that seem
50 absurdly trivial that the average citizen
would feel somewhat ashamed of bring
ing them to the attention of the Patent
Office.
Edison says that the profits he has re-
ceived from the patents on all his mar
vicious inventions have not been sufficient
TO pay the cost OF his experiments. But
the man who conceived the idea of fasten
ing bit of rubber cord TO childs ball
IN that III would hack tn the bn mr.
when thrown, made fortune out Of his
scheme. The modern sewing-machine is
mlracal OF lngenuity-the product oil
tne ton OF hundreds OF busy brains
through hundred ana nifty years, bu
the whole brilliant result rests upon the
simple device OF putting the eye OF The
needle at the point instead OF at the Other
end.
THE LITTLE THINGS The MosT VALu
ABLE.
Comparatively few people regard them
selves as inventors, but almost every bod,
has been struck, at one time or another
WIN IDEAS tnat seemed calculated TO re-
duce some OF the little irictlons OF life
Usually such ideas are dismissed without
iurIner tnough.'
ny uoh the railroad company make
us car windows SO That they can be Slid
seneers DUCKS eNcaims the traVeier'
II were running tne ROAD would make
them n such way
n"e was the man that mace tnis
saucepan thihkihS OF grumplcs the
COOK. ne never had 10 work over a
stove, OF ne wouiu nave known now IL
ougnt 10 nave oeen mxed,
nahs sucn collar outt0h! grows
me man VINO IS lnte Tor breakfast. III !
we're IN the business a make buttons
tnat wouinit SIP out break OIL or
gougc OUT 'he oacN OF my neck.
Ahu iheh the various sufferers forget
ABOUT thelr grievances ana oegin 10 thlhk
u something eise. II ihey wouIu sll
oown at tne next convenient opportunity
put tneir ideas ABOUT the car windows'
saucepahs' ana coilar pnttohs INTO pracu-
cai shape ana theh Apply Tor patents
they might ma themselves MS lndepehd.
ehtiy wealthy as tue man VINO invented
the IRON umorviia ring or the one VINO
patented the nlteeh puzzle
A TEMPTING OFFER.
To induce people TO keep track OF their
bright ideas and see what there is in them,