The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-10-05
Prizes ON Patents.
How to Get Twenty-Five Hundred
Dollars for Nothing.
The Winner has a Clear Gift of a
Small Fortune, and the Losers
Have Patents that may
Bring them in SLilI
More.

would y"W like to mahe twcnty.l five
hundred d~ultarNI II You would, read
carefully what follows and you may see
II way tn do IL.
The picss Claims Company devotes
mnclr attention to patents. 1t has han
died thousands of applications for in
vcntions, but 1t Would like to handle
thousands more. There Is plenty ul
inventive talent al large in this cuuatry,
! needing nothing bat encouragement to
produce rracti al results. That en-.
couiageinc 1t the Press Claims Company
proposes TO give.
NOT so HARD As IT SEEMS.
A patent strikes most people rs nm ap-
paillnSly iurlnidabie thing. The idea Is
that the inventor must be Il natural
genius, like Edison or Bell; that he
must devote years to delviug ia complI-
Gated mechanical problems and thai he
must spend Il fortune on delicate expert
lucnts before he can get II new device to
a %pateutable degree ol perfection. This
delu>'un the company desires u dispel.
II desires 10 get ii,tg LAG head Of Tue
pubIlc a clear comprehension OF the fact
that it Is not the great, complex, and
expensive Inventions that bring Lhs bear
returns to their authors, but the hide,
simple aud cheap oncs-the tLln.s
that saen. 20 ahsurliy TRIVIAL dat
The average citizen wouid feel ~soalewiiat
"s''"'ned Of bringing them u The alle.l-
ton 0l the Patent Office.
Edison says that the profits he has re-
ppiYrd ir0W he patents On all his mar
yeloHs iRyenlions LaYc not AcaH sum
oient u pay the cosL Of experiments.
But the uiut who conceived ile idc. OF
fastening Il bit OF rubber cord 10 u rhild's
Uall, so that IL would some back to he
hand WHEN thrown, made Il fortune
ogt 1i hiS scheme. The modern sewing
machine Is Il miracle Of Ingenuity. tile
iprOduct Of the toll Of hundreds oil busy
brains through a hundred and may
year., uHi ltg %iiGle brilliant result res.s
upon Inc s'mplc lryIcc u putting thp
rJ OF the needle At Tie poiut ius,sAd at
~ he other end,
THE LITTLE THINGS THE MOST vALu-
ABLE.
comparatively few people regard
themselves as inventors, nut almost
every body has been struck, al one time
or another, with ideas that seemed Cal
Culatcd to reduce some OI the little Iric-
nuns Va iilc' Usually hucu iutlS are
dismissed WlthOut 1urtner thought.
"Why don't tile railroad company make its
ear wihduws 50 tnat tney can be sud up and
down witiIOut Dreaklus the passengers bLcksY
eAciaI'ns lho ttINrler. III 4 were runnIng
the road l wo"ld MAKE tlen sucl II way"
w nat was lhv man tiIdI made TINS sauce pHu.
lhlnkihs Ol RruniDlcs tIe COOK "iic neyer
had 10 work over u stove, OF he would nave
SHOWN how n Ought 10 haze puen lSud."
"iiang such a collar Dullon," grvwls the
man Wiis Is iatc ior breakfast, IN / were IN
Inc business ! would MAKE buttons that would
not sup out, or break on, or gOugu out tne Ddck
oi m meek"
Aud then the various sufferers forget about
llelf grievances aud beglu 10 luink about
something 1ise IL tiey MUulu sl down al INC
next Convenient opportunity, pat tlcIr Ideas
apoui gar NlhdOWh, saucepans, auu collar but
tons INTO PRACTICAL shape, ami tncn appIy Tor
idtehls, tieJ ihIsnt nnu themselves Us indr.
pthdGntiy araltliy Us the man VINO invented
INC IRON umbrella aug, ur the one wnv patented
III. niteon puzzle,
A TEMPTING OFFER
To induce people to Keep track OF their bright
ideas and see Mnat there is Ia tnulu, the I'r.ns
claims Company mas resolved 10 oder a urize
10 the person VINO submits 20 u the slniuirst
anu most promising invention, from a couIuet.
Gal point oI view. the COMPANY Viii plyn
twenty-five hundred dollars IA unsu. m udd,.
uOn 10 reiunulnK Inc lees for securing IN,
patent. 1t will alsu nd yertIse me inyvntion
Iree OF chlgG ~
ms orief stli ict To the following cona;
lions; ky, y 90 n stilor must obtain n netrn,
ior HIS NOV ifye .Vh through inv co,nuau,