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"What a beautiful typewritten letter-as plain as print-as easy to
read as a primer! It must be the new Oliver PRINTYPE! I wish
all our correspondents used The Printype Oliver Typewriter!"
-A composite quotation from ten thousand business
and professional men on being introduced to Printype

A Long Step in Advance

The change from the old-style_thin outline letters known as Pica Type. universally used up to now on all standard typewriters. to the new, beautiful, readable Printype, is one of vast significance. It means relief from the harmful effect on eyesight of the "outline" typewriter type. For Printype is as easy to read as a child's primer.

It means less liability of mis-reading. due to blurring of outline letters, whose sameness frequently makes the words run together. Printype letters are shaded, just as Book Type is shaded.

It means less danger of costly errors. due to confusing the numerals. No possible chance of mistaking 3 for 8 or 5 for 3-each figure is distinct. It means a degree of typographic beauty never before known in typewriting.

And now, because of its newness. it has the enhanced charm of novelty.

Printype Now Famous

The reception of Printype by the business public has been most enthusiastic. We withheld any formal announcement until the machine had been on the market for one year. Personal demonstrations were its only advertising. The resulting sales were stupendous. Printype letters soon began to appear among commonplace old-style correspondence. Wherever received, these mysterious, distinctive, beautiful letters awakened immediate interest. Business men began asking each other. "What's that new kind of typewriter that writes like real print?" Thus the fame of Printype grows as its beauty and utility dawn on the business world.

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LL eyes are watching Printype. Its attraction is irresistible. Its beauty and grace, in a typewritten letter, are alluring, attention-compelling. Although absolutely new to typewriting, its counterpart-Book Type has been used on all the world's presses since the printing art had its inception. It is the Oliver ideal of perfect typog raphy applied to typewriter uses.

We had brought the machine to its maximum of efficiency. We had added, one by one, a score of great innovations. There remained but one point-that was the type itself.

Then came the inspiration which meant a revolution in typewriter type. We would design and produce a new typewriter type face, conforming to the type used in newspapers, magazines and books.

We did! It's here! It's PRINTYPE!

Printype is not an experiment. It is. in all essentials, the type that meets your eye when you read your morning paper, your magazine or your favorite novel. Now that Printype is an accomplished fact, the thought occurs to thousands. why didn't typewriter manufacturers think of it years ago? The same question was asked when, over ten years ago. we introduced visible writing.

Printype
OLIVER
Typewriter

The Standard Visible Writer

Printype Aids Eyes

The manifold merits of Printype are a constant source of surprise. Printype is restful to eyesight. It delivers its message in the most easily readable form.

The constant reading of thin outline letter typewriting plays havoc with the eyes. It sends thousands to oculists and opticians.

A comparative test of Printype and
ordinary typewriting will win you to the
type that reads like print.

We Have Not Raised
Our Price

We do not ask a premium for The
Printype Oliver Typewriter. We have
declared a big dividend in favor of type-
writer users by supplying this wonder-
ful type, when desired. on the new
model Oliver Typewriter.

Our price is $100, the same as our regular model with Pica Typewriter Type.

Ask for Book, Specimen Letter and Demonstration

We will gladly send you a Printype Book, together with a letter written on The Printype Oliver Typewriter. This letter will be a revelation.

Our great sales organization enables us to make an improvement of this character immediately and simultaneously available to the public. Press the button and see how quickly an Oliver Agent will appear with a "Printyper." ready to tell you all about it and write several Printype letters for you. Address Sales Department

"17-Cents-a-Day"

Offer

You can buy the new Printype Oliver Typewriter on the famous "17-Cents-aDay" Purchase Plan. A small first payment brings the machine. Then save 17 cents a day and pay monthly. You can turn in any make of typewriter on your first payment.

If the Penny Plan interests you, ask for details.

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THE OLIVER TYPEWRITER COMPANY, 758 Oliver Typewriter Building, CHICAGO

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"NO WONDER THE WEALTH OF THE NATION CENTERED IN THE CITIES!"

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FROM FARM TO TABLE-THE

ROAD OF A HUNDRED PROFITS

By

AGNES C. LAUT

There is a national pickpocket who snatches 75 per cent. of the farmer's profit and 80 per cent of the city man's income. He exacts a toll both going and coming, and his operations furnish one cogent reason why men are driven from farm to factory and country to counting house, and why the country man cannot make and the town man cannot save. This article suggests a remedy for the national pest.

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Forty cents! The ex-fruit farmer rubbed his eyes. That was an advance of 2,000 per cent. on the price the buyers used to pay him. How in the world was the price made up? Express was only 1 cent. That brought the cost to 3 cents as the box reached New York. Allow 1 cent more for risk and handling: 4 cents. Now 20 to 40 per cent. advance is a high profit for a wholesaler; at most, so far only 6 cents. Add the retailer's profit

of another 20 to 40 per cent. At most, the grapes should not be marked to exceed 10 cents. What unseen hand had juggled prices up to 40 cents-75 per cent. too high for the man who eats; 2,000 per cent. too low for the man who grows?

The city man had not added 1 cent to the value of the grapes. He had not paid for the labor and the forethought and the care and the first outlay of growing them. All that had to come out of the 2 cents paid the grower. Give the wholesaler and retailer each a profit of 100 per cent. That would bring the grapes to only 16 cents, not 40. Was it a skin game both going and coming? Did it skin the man who produced the food; and then skin the man who consumed the food?

And who got the big increment? That was the question. If the grapes had paid the grower a flat 10 cents, he could have made his fortune on the farm and put away 80 per cent. profit on investment. All these farm-improvement evangelists -railroad men, chambers of commerce, pink - gloved professors. could stop shouting themselves black in the face preaching "back-to-the-land." If farmers could put away 80 per cent. profit a year,

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IN THE COMMISSION MARKETS, WHERE THE PRICES OF FARM COMMODITIES BEGIN TO SHOOT SKYWARD.

chains and wild horses and regiments of rifles could not keep them off the land. If the farmers were putting away 80 per cent. of the first cost of their land a year, there would be such a rush from factory back to farm as would outsprint speed laws. If farmers could earn even 50 per cent. on capital invested, there would not be a banker in the United States, from Hetty Greene to Pierpont Morgan, who would not turn farmer quicker than a motor car turns turtle. And after all, aren't the farmers the bank of the nation? And what per cent. do they make on their investment? This man knew when he had to let grapes rot, or sell for 2 cents, he was not making 1 per cent. on his investment. He was not breaking even. He had to quit.

Why, he could have afforded to pay the freight, to pay the New York end of the handling, to pay a man to look after the sales, and still have put away 50 per cent. profit on his grapes. Then, he wanted to knock his head against something; for wasn't that exactly what he had been doing, though he did not know it? Paying for the freight-that is, his

price had been knocked down, so buyers could pay for the freight out of what should have been his profits, leaving their own profits intact. Paying for the New York end of the handling-that is, knocking his prices so low it left them margin to pay that handling. Paying the risk whether there was loss or not. Paying the wages of the salesman out of what should have been the farmer's margin. Paying the New York extortionate ground-floor rents-the big grocery, where the ex-farmer made his first inquiry, was on Broadway and paid a rental of $12,000 a year. And then over and beyond these preliminary charges against the grapes, paying a clear dividend of about 500 per cent. each to commission man, wholesaler, retailer.

No wonder the wealth of the nation centered in the cities! No wonder the boys and girls broke away from the farm to pursue that wealth! This sort of game made the farmer's nine-billion-a-year crop a sort of sluice box for depositing gold in city vaults. When the farmer, however, wanted a loan, he had to come on his knees to those bank vaults for it.

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