Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1893-11-23
PRIZES ON PATIENTS.
How to Get twenty-five Hun
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The winner has 20 Clear Gilt efN
Small ,aDd the losers
Have Patents that may
Bring them In still
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Would YOU like to make twenty-five hun
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what follows and You may zee way 70 q" ~.
The Press Claims Company dryotes much
attention to- patents. 1t has handled thons,
ands of applications for inventions, DMt IL
would like TO handle thousands more. There
is plenty of inventive talent i'll this country,
needing nothing hut cncour rage IN Gu
to produce practical results. That enconr-
aecmcnt the Press Claims Company pro-
poses to give.
NOT so HARD A. III SEEMS'',
A patent strikes most people as an ap pail
inely formidable thing. The ldea IS 'il"1 WI
! inventor must be natural genius, like Edl-
son or Bell that he must put years 10 oeiV'hy
in complicated mechanical problems ana
that he must spend n fortune on dclicate ex'
pcrimrn,s before he can get new unV!ce !"
patrn,ablc degree OF perfection ms ac'
lus,on the company desires to oispe!. ~ "e
sircs to- get into the head OF the p"o'lc" c'tar
comprehension of the tact that II Is no. 'Ie
great. complex, and expensive inventions
that hrinc The hest returns to their authors
but the little simple, and cheap ones-the
things that seem 80 absurd|y trivial that the
citizen would feel somewhat ashamed OF
bringing them to the attention OF the fatehI
Office
Edison says that the profits he has received
from the patents on all his marvellous lnvcn-
lions have not been sufficient topay the cost
of his experiments. But the man VINO con
cciyed The idea of tasteninga bit OF runner
cord to a chid's ball, so that it would come
lmck to his hanu when thrown made lor'
tune out of his scheme. The modern Sow
ING machine is miracle ot ingcnut'y-the
product of the toll of hundreds OF busy brains
through hundred and fifty years, Tut the
whole brilliant result rests upon the s'nplc
device of putting the eye Of the needle AZ inc
point instead Of the other end
THE LITTLE THINGS THE
MOST VALUABLE.
Compara,ively few people regard them
selves AZ inventors, but almost everybody
hus been struck, Il, one time or another
with ideas ,rat seemed calculated to REFUGE
some of the little frc,ionS of life. Usually
such ideas are dismissed without 1nrth'r
thought.
"Whv don't the railroad company make
its car windows so that they could bc Slid n.y.
and down without breaking the passengers
hacksy" cxclaims the traveller. III l were
'',,';n, ,In r,nIJ wou,d make them IN such
n wav.7
"Whn, was the man that made inns SAUCE ai1
pan llnk'ns "l ,'r"r .ove or he would
hever INV " "v !, "nrht,o have been fixed"
"I{any such collar button r gro"ls the
man who is late for breakfast. III were n
the business I'd make buttons that wouldn
slip ont or bleak Oft, or gougc out the BACK
Of my neck"
And then the various sufferers 'orSet "'""'
their grievances and hrgln 10 thloN o' so'i'
thing else. II they would s't GOWN ~ NV
next convenient opportunity, pun lheir '"r"'
about car windows, sauCeIans, ana co''.'
buttons into practical shape, ana 'heL 'ii'N
for patents, they niGht hnh '!'''AS'I'e' ~
independently wealthy rs tn" man VINO III
vented the iron umbrella l'nS, or 'he one
who patented the fifteen pUIh.r'
A Tf.MA'fsAE SEr Eas'
To induce pcop,c To keep track Of then
lrirh, IDEAS and see what there is in them,
,lr Pres, Claims Crnlpmr has resolved 10
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