Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-06-20

Would you like to make twenty-five
hur dred dollars? If you would, read
carefully what follows and you may see
a way to do it.
The Press Claims Company devotee
much attention to patents. 1t has hand
led thousands Of applications for patents
but 1t would like to handle thousands
more. There is plenty of inventive tai
ent ut large in this country, needing
nothing but encouragement to produce
practical results. That encouragement
the Press Claims Company proposes to
give.
NOT SO HARD AS IT SEEMS.
A patent strikes most people as an ap-
pallingly formidable thing. The idea is
that an inventor must be natural gen.
ius, like Edison or Bell; that he must
devote years to delving in complicated
mechanical problems and that he must
spend fortune on delicate experiments
before he can get new device to pat,
entable degree Of perfection. This delu-
sion the company desires to dispel. 1t
desires to get into the head of the public
a clear comprehension of the fact that it
is not the crest, complex and expensive
inventions that bring the best returns to
their authors, but the little, simple and
cheap ones-the things that seem so alb
surdly 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
velous inventions have not been suffi-
cicnt to pay the cost Of his experiments.
But the man who conceived the idea of
fastening bit Of rubber cord to a child
ball, so that it would return back to the
hand when thrown, made fortune out
Of his scheme. The modern sewing ma
chine is n miracle of ingenuity--the pro-
duct of the toll of hundreds Of busy
brains through hundred and fifty years
but the whole brilliant result rests upon
the simple device of putting the eye OF
the needle at the point instead of ut the
other end.
| THE LITTLE THINGS THE MOST VALUABLE.
Comparatively few people regard them
selves AS inventors, but almost every.
body has been struck, at one time OF
another, with ideas that seemed calcu.
lated to reduce some OF the little fric-
tons Of life. Usually such ideas are
dismissed without further thought.
"Why don't the railroad company
make it's car windows go that they can
be slid up and down without breaking
lt1,. ,l..s, Al.
traveller. elf were running the road
would make them in such way"
"What was the man that made this
saucepan thinking off" grumbles the
cook. "He never had to work over :
stove, or he would have known how il
ought to have been fixed"
''IIang tuch n collar button!' - growls
the man who is late for breakfast. "l1
were in the business I'd make buttons
that wouldn't slip out, or break off, OF
gouge out the back of my neck''
And then the various sufferers forget
about their grievances and begin to think
of something else. If they would sill
down ut the next convenient opportunity
put their ideas about car windows sauce.
pans, and collar buttons into practical
shape, and then apply for patents, they
might find themselves as independently
wealthy rs the man who invented the
iron umbrella ring, or the one who
patented the fifteen puzzle.
TEMPTING OFFER.
To induce people to keep track of theil
bright ideas and see what there is il
resolved to offer prize.
To the person asho submits to Il
the simplest and most promising IN
ce,etion from commercial point o.
oie,c. the company aciI giue t,centy'
tee hundred dollars in cash, an ad
dition to retmnding the fees for secur
ing the patent.
1t aoiU also adoertise the inuen
ton free Of charge.
This offer is subject to the following
conditions:
Every competitor must obtain paten
for his invention through the com any
tie must first apply for preliminar,
search, the cost OF which will be five dol
lars. Should this search show his inven
ton to be unpatentaale. he can Withdraw
without further expense. Otherwise III
will be expected to complete his applica
,ion and take out patent in the regular
way. The total expense, including gov
eminent and bureau fees. will be sevenr,
dollars. For this, whether he secure
the prize or not, the inventor will hav
patent that ought 10 be. valuahl
property to him. The prize will b
awarded by jury consisting of tire
reputable patent attorneys of ASKING
ton. Intending competitors should iii
out the following blank and forward
with their application:
''--, -, 1893.
81 submit the within described inven