Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-07-27
Prizes on Patenrs.
How to Set Twenty nVe Hundred
Dollars for Nothing.
The Winner has Clear Git OF Small
Fortune, and the Losers havs
Patents that may Bring
Them IN Still
More.


Would you like to make twenty-five
hundred dollarsP II you would, read
carefully what follows and you may ser
way to do It.
The Press Claims Company deyotes
much attentioi to patents. II has ham
died thousands OF applications for in
veptlons, but it would like to handle
thousands mure. There is plenty OF in
ventive talent at large in this country,
needing nothing but encouragement to
produce practical results. That en-
couragement the Press Claims Company
proposes to give.
NOT so HARD AS 1T SEEMS.
patent strikes most people as an
appalIingly formidable thing. The idea
is that an inventor must be natural
genius, like Edison or Bell, that he
must devote years to dslving In COM
pllcated mechanical problems and that
he must spend q fortune on delicate
experiment. before he can get new
device to paten.able degree OF per-
lection. This delusion the company
desires to dlspel. 1t desires to get into
the head of the public clear compre-
hension of the fact that 1t IS not the
great. complex, and expensive lnven.
lions tina. bring the best returns to their
suthors, but the little, simple, and
cneap ones-the things that seem 50
absurdly trivial that the average citizen
wouiC feel somewhat ashamed of bring
ing them .o.the attention OF the Patent
Office.
Edison says that the profits he re-
ceived from the patents on ali his mar
velous Inventions have not been suffici-
ent 10 pay the cost of his experiments,
But the man who conceived the idea of
fastening q bit of rubber cord to y
child's ball, SO that it would come back
10 the hand when thrown, made q for
tune out Of his scheme The modern
sewing machine Is miracle Of ingenus
ity-the pr0duct of the toll Of hun
dreds of busy brains through hun
dred and fifty years, bnt 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.
thamspives ~ ;nvantors k,,t .l,s..st
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crlatsd - radnca so,na - ~ ,;,,,e ss;1
sion ~ life Ir.rsIiu snch ;dass =.
dismissed without further thought,
''Why don't The railroad company
make its car windows so that they can
be slid up and down without breaking
traveller. "If were running the road
! would make them in such . way. "
~ nas was me man ina made this
cook. ..He never hsd q z worp rsp'sS over ~ :
stove, or he would have known how i
ought to have been fixed. "
nang sucn csliAr nutton'' growls
nu wara s,'in - ,ha NJ h,ss;ass. = ~; - -,
that wouldn't slip .ut. or break IN. or
gouee out The back OF nv neck. v
Aud then the yarioos sufferers torpet
their grievances and be0,n - think n
somethinc atse Ifthev wnnld Il. a6wn
It The newt conveniert onnortnn;sv- m,
their ideas about car windovs. ssn,.e.
pans and collar buttons into prscticnl
shape. and then apply for patents. thew
might find themselves as slndepepdentlv
wealthy as the man who Invented he
iron umbrella ring. or the one Who nat
en,sd tn, fifteen nuzzle.
TrxpTISa orrRR
To induce neon = II kean tract ~
their bright ideas and see what theye =
IN them. the Press Claims Comnsnv has
r.4soIva.i n offar . mia