The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-08-31
on Patents.
How 10 Gel Twenty-Five Hundred
Dollars for Nothing.
The Winner has q Clear Gift of a
Small Fortune, and the Losers
Have Patents that may
Biing them IN Stlli
More,

hundred dolars? IL yuu wuuld, read
carefully what follows aad you ipay see
a way 10 do 1t.
ihe P,ess Claims Company devotes
mich attention 10 patents. IL has han
died thousands Of applications for In
ycniiuns, but 1t would like 10 handle
thousands more. fhere Is plenty Of
iuyenliye talent u large in lhls county,
need ,iig nothing bit acknowledgements TO
produce Eracti al results. mat Gu
couiageme t the P.oss Claims Company
proposes to give.
NOT SO HARD AS III SEEMS.
A patent strikes most people AS an APP
pailinsiy formidable thiHg. The idea Is
that The Inventor must be u natural
geuins, ike Edisun OF Bell; that mo
must devote years to deiviug In com ,piI-
stated mechanical problems and that he
must speud a fortune on delicate expert
meats before he can get II new device to
u paicntabie degree y, perfection. This
deIusiuu The COMPANY desires Ia dlspel.
II de-ires tu get Tito the head OF the
pubic Il clear coMpfehens sion oil tie Tact
ttfat IL is not the great, complex, AID
expensive Inventions thai bilng the best
returis 10 thcia authors, but The littir,
simple uIl cheap Oft s--thv things
tuat seem 50 aDsur,lly trivial that
the average citizen would feel s%plnewlal
ashamed VI bringing them u III; atte.-
tion OF the Patent Olloe.
Edlson says that Inc PRONE, he has lo-
eeiyed from The palents OIL all ms mar
Vicious inyeuliVns hay~ noL ltcn saAir
virHt to pay tuc cs,st Ok experimeiiis,
But the Ina VIM conceiycd Tue ilc ui
fastening Il bit OF rubber oru To u ,hiiifs
billl, so That II would come back 10 The
hand VII II thrown, made u f0ltule
vitl vi his suiicnne. The modern sewiuS
! machine Is a miracle VI ingenuity --ihu
/, u. ouuci oil tho loii oI land, eds vi bosy
brains through u hanIrrd auu liiy
years, but lliu Whole brfiIIunt result rcsls
spou the sample dsy.ce vi pa,ln.x ihe
Is . ufaiie needle Al The poIulinstad Vi
~ lbe other end
ITiiE LITTLE THINGS THE MVsr yALu-
ABLE.
Comp ,raliyciy few people regard
III tuhscIyua. as iu,entvrs, Dul AHA yst
everybody has bssl SIR ivs, ri vna line
or alother, with ilsAs tlult seunied GU,
culatca 10 ,risicc s1aIo oi tiir iilllc iruu-
sions oI lie. Usually susu iJras arr
dismissed without lnrsurr tholl5ar.
rwhy dont Tic "A. tuad company .niuke II.
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