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as Local Agent for New Printype Oliver Typewriter
-the Latest Wonder in Typewriterdom +

On top of all the innovations that have given The Oliver Typewriter
such amazing success and sales, we have placed the crowning improve-
ment - PRINTYPE! The Oliver Typewriter now typewrites print.
To the first acceptable man in each locality where we have
no local agent, we offer the exclusive agency for The Oliver
Typewriter, which carries with it absolute control of all sales of
Printype Oliver Typewriters in the territory assigned.

Think of the money-making possibilities of an agency which enables you to step into a man's office and say: "I represent the only typewriter in the world that successfully typewrites print."

Overwhelming Public Demand for Printype

Printype, the beautiful new type face, unobtrusively introduced to the public by The Oliver Typewriter Company a year ago, is today the reigning favorite in Typewriterdom.

The beauty the individuality-of Printype has turned the heads of some of the greatest business executives of the country.

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writer is the only writing machine in the world that successfully typewrites print.

This triumph in typewriter type, added to the numerous other exclusive features of The Oliver Typewriter, greatly increases the value of our Local Agency Franchise. It puts our great Sales Organization still farther in the lead.

It's Your Supreme Opportunity

We distribute Oliver Typewriters through a

Typewriter world-wide Agency System. Each Local Agent

The Standard Visible Writer

If you have not had the pleasure of an introduction to Printype ask for a copy of our pamphlet

"A Revolution in Typewriter Type"

Printype is an adaptation for the typewriter, of the regular book type universally used on printing presses.

An old friend in a captivating new dress-the last word in typewriter type-style. It is twice as artistic and easy to read as the old-style, sharp, thin outline letters and numerals used on all other typewriters.

Although The Printype Oliver Typewriter is worth a premium, we placed the complete machine on the market at the regular catalog price.

The effect was electrical. Inquiries came thick and fast. Demands for demonstrations kept our Local Agencies working at high tension. Sales jumped. Public appreciation of the innovation was so impressively shown in actual orders that today one-third of our total output of Oliver Typewriters are "Printypes."

Belongs Exclusively to the Oliver The Oliver Typewriter Company originated "Printype." We control it. The Oliver Type

is given exclusive control of all sales of new Oliver Typewriters in the territory assigned, during the entire life of the arrangement. The demand for demonstrations of The Printype Oliver Typewriter necessitates a heavy increase in our force of Local Agents.

Every city, every town, every village must be quickly assigned, so that the vast number of inquiries that are pouring into the General Offices may have prompt, personal attention. This is undoubtedly the greatest business opportunity of your life. Ask for the details of our Exclusive Agency Proposition. Get posted on the profitpossibilities. Remember that a Local Agency Contract is an exclusive Franchise that entitles you to all the profit on every sale made in the specified territory.

"17 Cents a Day" Booms Sales

As local agent for The Oliver Typewriter you can offer the liberal, attractive terms of "17 Cents a Day." You can accept any make of old machine your customer may own, to apply on the small first payment.

We do not surround our Local Agents with annoying rules and restrictions. In the territory assigned them, they are given full control. Loyal, efficient service wins generous recognition. Exceptional ability is rewarded by promotion to more important positions in the Oliver Organization.

Whether you can give your entire time to the work or only an hour or two a day. you cannot afford to miss this wonderful money-making opportunity.

Rush Agency Application Applications should be mailed promptly, as the territory is being assigned

very rapidly. Interesting literature, including the "Printype Book" and "The Opportunity Book," together with complete information regarding Local Agency Plan, will be sent by first mail.

Address Agency Department

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The Oliver Typewriter Company, 293 Oliver Typewriter Building, Chicago

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THE TECHNICAL WORLD MAGAZINE

VOL. X V

MAY, 1911

NO. 3

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DOG TALKS GERMAN

By

DR. ALFRED GRADENWITZ

AMBURG, the old sea-faring town of German merchants, has for some weeks been the temporary home of Don, the greatest celebrity in the animal kingdom, a prodigy partaking, it would seem, of the nature both of man and animals, the "speaking" dog that is puzzling alike the scientific world and the general public.

When a few months ago faint rumors about a dog endowed with the gift of speech, first reported by German papers, gradually spread to America, most people skeptically shook their heads, believing it an open mystification or an effect of self-delusion. When, however, the most distinguished men of science showed their interest in that wondrous dog by a thorough investigation of his capacities, doubt was no longer permissible and the veracity of the report had to be conceded. As so frequently happens in such cases, those who in the beginning had been the most perfect skeptics now went to the extremity of asserting that after all, there was nothing wonderful in the matter, cases of speaking dogs having been on record for nearly 2,000 years and that Pliny, the famous naturalist of Roman antiquity, and, in more recent times, the philosopher Leibniz Perty, a distinguished philologist, had all referred

to the ability of dogs to imitate their master's speech. Nay, even among the canine contemporaries of Don, there were not a few possessed of the same capacities, no less than twenty to thirty rival dogs being quoted, while one lady in a letter to the director of the Hamburg Zoological Gardens even attributed to her cat not only the ability to pronounce whole sentences, but even to sing the most popular songs. Again, according to others, seals, walruses and even stags would sometimes prove speakers of more or less talent.

These exaggerated statements doubtless were quite as wrong as the utter skepticism shown in the beginning. Don's case is both authentic and unique and whatever reports on other "speaking" dogs may be current should be put down to effects of imagination. There may be other dogs capable of imitating one or two words, very much in the fashion of parrots, as a purely mechanical repetition of sounds to which no meaning is attached. Don, however, does speak, and is the only animal so far proved to do so.

Speech to him is the expression of an inward impulse to communicate with his master and other persons, showing them his affection or requesting the fulfillment of some wish. When quite young, he

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