THE MIL~ KEE MAGAZN P ~isades of the Yakima River, Eastern Washington JULY, 1924 'The OPERATOR The man at the key must have a good watch-accuracy represents his margin of safety. Thousands of Illinois watches in the hands of operators everywhere prove that the name ILLINOIS stands for dependability as well as supreme quality~ au~n cJpecial cfa1!1lgamo (fpecial ILLINOIS WATCH COMPANY • SPRINGFIELD 8vlakers qfFine Watches for More Than 50 Years ADJUSTED TO SIX POSITIONS AND TEMPERATURE ~ ~ Dial up Dial down 9 up 12 up IOfferYou a My Special Offer to Railway Men The Amazing Story of w: S. Cooper Points the Way To . A $200 A Week Income for You "My name is Cooper-W. S. Cooper, Now I am going to tell you how· I liv~ in Ohio, and this is a tr\le this great change came about. One I Have Succeeded Beyond story about myself. I am writing it day I heard that a man co"ld make My Dreams because there are thousands of men from $100 to $300 a month in his in America struggling along on spare time by doing a certain kind There is no secret to my success. starvation wages, j'.lst like I was, of work. I have succeeded beyond any dreams who can do just what I did and I may have had a few years ago. make from $6,000 to $10,000 a year. I didn't believe it. I couldn't be­ And please remember I consider my_ lieve that a man could make as self only an average man. Here' much' in an hour or so as I was are the £acts about my success. I Was a Wage Earner making by eight hours' hard work. A short· time ago I worked in a I am the local representative for the Comer Manufacturing Company. J. R..HEAD fe.ctory. I was not the owner, not . the superintendent, not the boss. I This company manufactures Comer ~ansas, of. who lives in a was a wage-earner. I made as All-Weather Raincoats --:.. the finest small lown of 631 people. coats in style. material and work­ He has made as high a. much as the average man and no more. I was just like nine out of lnanship. that can be bought any­ $69.50 in one' day selling where. Comer AIl·Weather Coa.ls, ten other men-,--a slave to .my job­ no real money, rio real future. Why" Comer Coats are not sold in stores. I couldn't have raised $100 in cash but through a local representative. if my life had depended on it. And The local representative does not that was only a little while ago. have. to buy a stock. He doesn't have to invest any money. All he Today, I am a successful business cus~ man. I have a large income, money, does is take orders from Comer investments. I have hundreds and tomers,-orders that almost come hundreds of friends. I get a lot of. without asking-and he gets his big pleasure out of life. I have no boss. profits every day for the orders he takes. I work just four hours a day and only five days a week. And the Many of my customers now come reason for the change in my circum­ to me. I don't know how much stances is very simple. bigger my business will get, but I no longer consider it an exceptional day when my earnings exceed $50 The Curse of a Small or $76. There are few business men Income in this city whose profit is greater E. A. SWEET Please remember that only· a short Just to satisfy my curiosity. how­ than mine, and -r can only see un­ an electric~l ·engineer, is time ago I was practically broke­ ever, I investigated. As you read Iimiteg opportunity in the future." making from $600 to doing like most men, trying to make this you will fed just about the $1,200 a monlh and works only about four hours a s meagre salary meet the constantly same way I did then. I thought it You Are Now Offered da\,. increasing expenses of life. It could,,'t be true, and yet, it might couldn't be done. We wanted to the Same Opportunity be, a;:d it certainly was worth find­ If you are interested In increas­ live like other people. We wanted ing out. Ing your Income from $100 to $1,000 !some of the luxuries of life. We a m'onth anll can devote all your wanted to buy our own home. But I Find Myself time 01' only an hour or so "!- day there simply wasn't enough money. to this proposition, then mall the We were living from hand to mOll.th. I found a wonderful thing. I dis­ coupon to me at once. And it made me alm·ost desperate to covered that instead of m",king only This is In:)' special offer to rail­ think of what would happen·· if I froIll $100 to $300 a month, men WRY men. 1 will send you without who were doing this work were mak­ cost or obligation fun details of became sick or_ lost my job. whi~h ing as high as $1,200 a month­ this proposition has enabled And yet, today, I am a big suc­ 'V. S. Coopel' to enJoy an mcome men like myself who had never had ces6. Money no longer worries me. of $::;,000 a y~al'. 1 will provc to any experience were easily cleaning I buy what I want and pay cash for you that you have the same .chance up from $100 to $l50 a week. to mal,e the same huge earnmgs as it. I travel where I please. I give ll'lr. Cooper. ·iIlail the coupon at my family the luxuries that every When I look back· to that day and once. This may be the big o,!t­ A. B. SPENCER family is entitled to expect from the realize how' close I came to passlng standing opportunity of your hfe head of· the family. I hesitate to up my opportunity it sends cold to end ~'Ol1r 1110ney worries forever. of Pennsylvania, is an in­ it, mayb~ chills down my spine. All that I Act quickly. surance man who repre-· say and it does sound !Oent~ us in spare time. foolish but just the other day I have today, my entire success, is C. E. COillER, Pres., We paid him $625 for one paid $900 for a diamond ring that I due to the proposition that I learned The COluer lUf;.r. Co., nth's spare time. had wan ted for a long time. about that day. Dept. BV-517 Dayton, Ohio NOTICE Mail This NOW FREE TO YOU The Co~er Mfg. Co., The Comer Manufac­ Dept. BV-517, Dayton, Ohio In addition to your turing Company 'is the big earnings we of• Please send me without expense or ob­ largest business of its ligation your special proposi~ion wh!ch has fer you a Buick kind in the world. Any enabled W. S. Cooper tu enJcy an mcome Touring Car, with• man who becomes a rep­ of $5,000 a year. out a cent of cost, resentative is assured of that you can use fair, square, honest treat­ Narne _. ~~ .~ ... _ ~ help you in developing this great. ment, and will have rea­ ron to be proud of his con­ Address . ._... ._._. .__ 00. _ ess. Mail the coupon for full de­ ,uction with the company, ------_._---------------_.-..-----­ of our special proposition. -------··----{P;:int or Write Plainiy) What Do You Want Mo t? A home? A business of your own? A college education for your children? 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