Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1913 — Dreams Self Into Fortune. [ARTICLE]

Dreams Self Into Fortune.

Fortunes generally are inherited or I acquired by hard work and sound business acumen, but Georgetown, Del., boasts of a man who has dreamed himself into affluence. This man is C. B. Shockley, and be is a railroad telegraph operator. Frequently be has acted as relief track walker and on these strolls he has noticed that nuts and bolts holding the rails together frequently became loose. He began concentrating bis mind on the subject of a safer bolt The idea proved a puzzle to him, he declares, p until Morpheus, by a queer turn, unfolded the explanation as clearly as though he had reasoned it oat in his waking hours. He lost no time in obtaining a model and has received a < 1 declares he has been offered $50,000 for his invention, but he is holding out for $75,000. A patent/ lawyer in Washington, who handled bis claim, has offered to take over his idea. ,