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One Thousand Ways to Make Money

The Secret of Work. Nature’s Furrow. General Details. The Prismatic Brain. The Bridled Tongue. Studying the Stair Above. The Missing Factor. The Magnifying Glass. The Microscopic Eye. Scoring a Point when off Duty. The Study of Men 13

Chapters

50. CHAPTER XV.

Nearly 100 Patents Issued Every Day--The Easiest Way to Get Rich--Crystallize Your Idea Into a Coin--Six Billion Dollars of Capital Based on Patents--Great Returns for American...

40. CHAPTER V.

How to Make Money at Home--One Hundred Ways to Get Gain in Your Own House--How to Get One Hundred Per Cent. Profit--Make Your Own Goods--Cheaper to Make than to Buy--Anybody Can...

42. CHAPTER VII.

One Hundred Ways a Woman Can Earn a Living--A New Way to Remember Your Friends--The Woman with a Pet Dog--Solving the Servant-girl Question--Shopping for Pleasure and Profit--Pr...

52. CHAPTER XVII.

Profits of the Pen--Ten Cents a Word--A Millionaire Novelist--$3,000 for a Short Story--How Hall Caine Won a Fortune--A Pilgrimage of Publishers--“One Thousand Times Across the...

70. CHAPTER XXXV.

Some Golden Plums--What Electrical Experts Get--The Confidential Man--Rapid Rise of an Advertising Agent--Editors in Clover--Railroad Presidents Come High--A $25,000 Engineer--T...

51. CHAPTER XVI.

Relation between Soils and Skulls--The Secrets of Successful Farming--Why go to Alaska when there are Gold Mines at the Home--Jute, a Keyword to Fortune--A Million Dollars in th...

64. CHAPTER XXIX.

Odd Ways of Making Money--Millions for Cents--How to Live Without Paying Rent--X-Rays and X-Bills--Fortunes in Old Iron--Newspapers, Like Wine, Increase in Price With Age--High...

36. CHAPTER I.

You Can Get It--Positions Yawning for Young Men--Any Young Man May Become Rich--Men Who Began at the Bottom and Reached the Top--How A. T. Stewart Got His Start--John Jacob Asto...

43. CHAPTER VIII.

Seven Ways to Get a Place--The Way a Boy Should Advertise--Openings Everywhere for the Right Kind of Boys--Beating the Booksellers--Stories About Smart Boys--Twenty-five Hints t...

69. CHAPTER XXXIV.

A Thousand Ways to Make a Living--The Humbug of Great Names--The Mania for Old and Rare Things--The “Relic” Manufacture--The “Imitation Enterprise”--The “Box Office” Clique--The...

44. CHAPTER IX.

The Omnipresent Agent--What He Says and What He Sells--Power of the Successful Drummer--The Five Secrets of the Book Agent--Five Thousand Dollars Commission on a Patent--How Sev...

56. CHAPTER XXI.

More Money in Ink--Millions Paid for it Every Day--New Devices to Catch the Eye--Exposure of Advertising Tricks--Cupid on the Counter--What “Bargain Day” and “Below Cost” Really...

45. CHAPTER X.

Proprietary Kings and How They Acquired Power--Patent Medicine Secrets Given Away--Where Perry Davis Found His Recipe--The Parent of the “Killers”--Men Who Made Their “Pile” in...

38. CHAPTER III.

What Kind of Advertisements Pay--“Don’t Fail to See the Blizzard Saturday Night”--The Keynote of a $20,000,000 Sale--Selling Goods by the Mile--Watches for Bait--How to Get Five...

49. CHAPTER XIV.

The Earth a Vast Treasure-box--$300,000,000 from the Comstock Lode--A Short Story of Three Millionaires--Opportunities in Mica Mining--Fortunes in Salt Wells--$10,000 for Locati...

59. CHAPTER XXIV.

Money in Fun--Salary of a “Star”--A Fortune in “A Parlor Match”--A Pianist Who Got $2,500 a Night--How to Get a Start on the Stage--A New Field for the Amusement Artist--Humor a...

48. CHAPTER XIII.

How a Blacksmith Got Rich--The Story of Pullman--The Story of the Columbia Bicycle--A Recipe for a Fortune--A Mica Secret--How to Make Marble--Another Great Secret Given Away--R...

53. CHAPTER XVIII.

Fortunes in Printers’ Ink--Value of the New York _Herald_ Plant--Story of Mr. Pulitzer’s Struggles--From a Park Bench to a Newspaper Throne--Alfred Harnsworth, the Greatest Pape...

66. CHAPTER XXXI.

What Shall I Do with My Money?--Enormous Profits in Trust Companies--The Most Costly Bell in the World--The Bell Telephone--Edward Bellamy’s Vision--The Best Paying Stocks--$11...

65. CHAPTER XXX.

True Stories that are Stranger than Fiction--Fortune’s Great Army--The Rise of Jay Gould--The Meteoric Career of James Fisk--Ferdinand Ward, the Napoleon of Finance--How Vanderb...

46. CHAPTER XI.

The Costliest Spot on the Western Hemisphere--A Mile and a Half of Millionaires--The Kings of the Earth--Why Some Rich Men Do Not Live in New York--The Country Fool and the Know...

39. CHAPTER IV.

Success of the “Imitation Cigar”--The Dealer’s Seeds of Gold are Black--Barnum’s Belief in Humbugs--Tricks for Trade--Politics for the Men, Novels for the Women--How the Remingt...

57. CHAPTER XXII.

Vast Forces yet Unknown--The Human Form a Key to unlock Nature’s Caskets of Gold--The Storage of Air--The Waste of Steam--The March of Electricity--How One Company saved $50 a D...

47. CHAPTER XII.

Some Things Everybody Ought to Know--An Institution that Teaches “Without Money and Without Price”--A Woman Who Earns $3,000 a Year--The Old Glue-Maker’s Gift to Women--How a Li...

15. CHAPTER XV.

A Non-Puncturable Bicycle Tire. Bicycle Holder Attachment. The Bicycle Umbrella Holder. A Bicycle Cyclometer Clock. The Double Power Bicycle. The Folding Wheel. A Bicycle Suppor...

63. CHAPTER XXVIII.

The American People Waste More Fortunes than Other Nations Make--The Shoreditch Experiment in England--The Tonner System of Germany--Millions in Ashes--Coal Fortunes Waiting to...

67. CHAPTER XXXII.

962. FIVE MINUTES A DAY before a box of paints or a bunch of finely shaded ribbons will make you expert in colors, a position of great importance and large salary in many stores.

41. CHAPTER VI.

Money at Home--What a Single Acre Will Do--Gold in the Soil--How a Dike Made a Klondike--$1,000 at Your Back Door--Nickels in Pickles! Livings in Pickings!--A Fortune in a Fat S...

62. CHAPTER XXVII.

The Magician who Makes Gold Swim--$30,000,000 in a Shoal of Cod--200 per cent. Profits in Salmon--How French Sardines are Made in Maine--Vast Money in Bivalves--John Bull, Broth...

55. CHAPTER XX.

Wanted, a New Fertilizer--How “Golden” Forests Drop Gold--Why the Fields Near Berlin are so Productive--How We Lose $5,000,000 a Year--The Peat Treasures of New Jersey--Fortunes...

58. CHAPTER XXIII.

Boundless Wealth in Brick, Wood and Stone--Farmers Who have Untouched and Unknown Mines--A Man With 2,000,000 Acres--How a Farmer Astonished a Lawyer--A New Way to Measure Land-...

54. CHAPTER XIX.

Capital in Cloth--How Uncle Sam Helps Linen-Makers--The Mistake of Stocking Manufacturers--5,000,000 Sales if the Maker will get the Right Thing--Better than Starch?--A Chance t...

37. CHAPTER II.

Why Men Fail--Luck on the side of Pluck--Marking the Day’s Profits Before they Begin--No Diamond Like the Eye--The Man Who Takes His Bank to Bed With Him--The Two Hands of Fortune.

60. CHAPTER XXV.

How to Combine Profit and Pleasure--Some Truths About Trout--Stories of the Wild North--Fortunes in Furs--Nearly Five Million Skins a year--Cost of Birds for Ladies’ Hats--$25 a...

61. CHAPTER XXVI.

Unappreciated and Unappropriated Wealth in Trees--$5,000,000 Burned in Florida Forests--Reckless Waste of Timber--An Opportunity to Make a Fortune in Paper Cane--Chances in Ceda...

35. CHAPTER XXXV.

The object of this work is to help people who are out of employment to secure a situation; to enable persons of small means to engage in business and become their own employers;...

68. CHAPTER XXXIII.

Economy is quite as large a factor as industry in the gaining of a fortune. With people living on small incomes, it is often the one element that determines whether they “make b...

5. CHAPTER V.

7. CHAPTER VII.

The School Store. The Hand Album. The Novelty Bakery. The Front Yard Snap. The Pet Dog. The Box Lunch. The Hairdresser. Typo and Steno. The Sewing School. Flat Hunting. A Tea Ro...

17. CHAPTER XVII.

The Popular Novel. The Short Story. The Village Reporter. The Truth Condenser. Town History. The Shoppers’ Guide. Birthday Book. Church-Workers’ Book. Household Economics. The P...

16. CHAPTER XVI.

Substitute for Silk. Washington Pippins. Dorsets and Downs. American Cheese. Business Apples. Fortunes in Poppies. The Capon Farm. Barrels of Baldwins. Rare Rodents. Mortgage-Li...

29. CHAPTER XXIX.

The National Advertising Co. Free Rent. X-Rays and X Bills. Golden Sails. Game Preserve. The Junk Shop. Old Newspapers. The Bookstall. Old Furniture. Public Convenience Room. Ge...

8. CHAPTER VIII.

The Boy Magician. The Glass-Blower. The Dime Lunch. Cancelled Stamps. The Boys’ Press. Saw and Scroll. The Magic Lantern. Candy-Making. Odd Jobs. General Employment Agency. Coll...

21. CHAPTER XXI.

Money and the Muse. Cents in Nonsense. Word Puzzle. Tracks to Wealth. The Story Advertisement. The Fictitious Bank Bill. The Pocketbook Find. Everybody’s Eagle. The Witty Dialog...

10. CHAPTER X.

Healing Ointment. Spasm Killer. Anti-Malaria. Hostetter’s Bitters. Toothache Ease. Candy Digest. Cough Lozenges. Lovers’ Hair-Oil. Purgative Powder. Consumption Wafers. Beef, Ir...

3. CHAPTER III.

The Interlined Advertisement. The Picturesque Name. The Pictorial Wreck. Red-Letter Day. Class Discount. The Honest Flaw. The Premium Clerk. The Railroad Mileage. The Dial Dolla...

6. CHAPTER VI.

Money in Pears. Greenbacks in Greenings. Plums of Gold. The Raspberry Acre. Profits in Big Peaches. Easy Tomatoes. Assorted Strawberries. Livings in Lettuce. Sovereigns in Spina...

14. CHAPTER XIV.

Nevada Silver. Aluminum, the New Mineral. North Carolina Mica. Kansas Zinc. Missouri Cottas. Nickel Mines. Mexican Iron. Tennessee Limestone. Fortunes in Copper. German Amber. A...

4. CHAPTER IV.

The Puzzle. The Toy Imitation. The Cartoon. The Conjurer. The Striking Figure. The Advertising Story. The Word-Builder. The Popular Pun. The Political Guesser. The Geometrical G...

1. CHAPTER I.

The Secret of Work. Nature’s Furrow. General Details. The Prismatic Brain. The Bridled Tongue. Studying the Stair Above. The Missing Factor. The Magnifying Glass. The Microscopi...

24. CHAPTER XXIV.

The Farce Comedy. Instrumental Concerts. Stage Stars. Popular Lecturers. Hand Shadows. Museum and Circus. Gymnasts. Opera Singers. Mimic Battles. Theatrical Enterprises. Dancers...

31. CHAPTER XXXI.

Illuminating Companies. Trust Companies. Banks. Insurance Companies. Tin Plate Company. Pottery Combination. Consolidated Ice. Flour Trust. Furniture Combine. Telephone Monopoly...

34. CHAPTER XXXIV.

Experts. Detectives. Traveling Poets. Old Coins. Purveyor of Personals. Gold on Sea Bottom. Rare Books. Old Italian Violins. Magic Silk. The Gold Cure. The Telephone Newspaper....

32. CHAPTER XXXII.

What Five Minutes a Day Will Do. Ten. Fifteen. Twenty. Twenty-five. Thirty. Thirty-five. Forty. Forty-five. Fifty. Fifty-five. Sixty. Seventy-five. Eighty. Ninety. One Hundred....

12. CHAPTER XII.

Crayon Work. Drawing. Photograph Coloring. Oil Painting. Water Colors. Wood Engraving. Book Decoration. Dyeing. Designs. Engraving on Glass. Embroidery. Lace Making. Drawing in...

28. CHAPTER XXVIII.

18. CHAPTER XVIII.

9. CHAPTER IX.

19. CHAPTER XIX.

13. CHAPTER XIII.

11. CHAPTER XI.

22. CHAPTER XXII.

26. CHAPTER XXVI.

2. CHAPTER II.

20. CHAPTER XX.

27. CHAPTER XXVII.

25. CHAPTER XXV.

30. CHAPTER XXX.

23. CHAPTER XXIII.

33. CHAPTER XXXIII.