Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1912-04-25
Millions of Dollars Made on Little
 Things.


 Every time you remove the tin cap from beer bottle you add fraction of a cent to the fortune of William H. Painter, of Baltimore. Before Painter patented this little invention, DeQuill- fedt and his associates had piled up $15,OOO,OOO obtained from the bottle stopper consisting of piece of rubber held in place by bent wire lever. Would you like the income of the man who patented the little piece of pasteboard fitted into the neck of milk bottle?
 How do you suppose DeLong invented "See-that- hump" on the hook that re- tains its position in the eye? Has he more inventive talent than you possess? A kind husband heard his wife complain of the loss of her hairpins which would not stay i'll place. On studying the sit uation, he invented the crinkly hairpin now so popular and money making. A one-armed soldier made $S0,OOO on his Return Ball, consisting of rubber string attached to small wooden ball. The girnlet-pointed screw brought its inventor $1O0,OOO.
 If you run an automobile, you have heard of the George B. Selden patent which yielded its inventor $2,000,00O be- fore it was declared invalid. Thaddeus Fairbanks was New England farmer with long whiskers and patient Yankee ingenuity. The Fairbanks scales, used the world over, are the result of his study and experiments. Hyman L. Lipp- man, although of Philadelphia, was wide awake enough to invent the universally used rubber eraser on the end of lead pencils
 Suppose you had thought of the trihe known as the copper toe-tips for boys shoes? The invention of tin can to hold food products necessitated a tin can opener Several openers were pat ented and much money was corralled by their makers. A can opener is not diff hcult to work, but the public will pay for easier methods of doing things. To save the use of can opener, an inventor has patented seam just below the cans top which breaks on a slight blow and the top is off. One Chicago packer has ordered 10,0OO,0OO of these improved cans as an experiment, and the business has scarcely begun.
 Charles Edward Mccarthy was blind man who lived in South Carolina. He dShlSSO q lllOlllOO O1 dlld(llliS lllllC pOW- CT to a cotton gin and enjoyed a life of ease while the mules did the work The puzzle Pigs-in-Clover gave its owner a considerable fortune In 1871 a six year-old Canadian boy was granted United States patent on successful noise-making toy.
 On Sunday morning in Troy, New York, Henry Burden disturbed church worship by loudly exclaiming, "Pve got it." He had thought out the machine made horseshoe. Among Burdens nu- merous inventions was the celebrated little machine for making rail spikes which was in litigation above forty years. To change the eve of a needle from the end to the point seems a trife Yet on this seeming trife the enormous sewing machine industry is based. Elias Howe has the credit for this little thing"
 A cast-iron tombstone is a patented article that covers the graves of many departed Americans and furnishes generous income for its inventor B. R. Catlin, of Washington, produced pat tern cat that needs only to be stuffed with hay and sewed up to add to the children's joy and Catlin's pocketbook. The young sculptress who formed the fearful figure called "Billiken" has gath cred many sheckels as the result of her fantastic imagination. Have you heard how many millions the Hartshorn cur tain roller produced?
 It IS remarkable that most improve ments have been made by farmers and mercantile people. The Berliner inven- tions i'll phonographs were made by a clerk in Washington, D. C., retail store. A Chicago taxidermist devised the so-called Cement Gun, which has much improved and cheapened cement work. Morse, of telegraph fame, was an artist. Arkwright was a barber Cart right, inventor of the power loom, was a clergyman.
 As illustrating the importance of early application for patent, Bell filed his tele- phone application in the U. S. Patent Office at 10 A. M, while another man filed his application for the same idea at 3 P. M of the same day, thus missing Bells $1OO,OOO,OOO by nose Do you catch on?
 Are you wasting or improving your spare moments? By study you can in vent something that will bless the world, enroll your name on the scroll of fame and give you fortune Try to do so at any rate. The greatest American inven- tor tells "How to Invent" in a booklet sent free by Henry N. Copp, Editor of Copp's Land Books, Registered Patent Attorney, 745 sth Street, Washington, D. C.