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Show Claimed Invention of Idea of Fountain Pen There recently passed away In a New Tork hospital a man who spent almost a lifetime and considerable money In an endeavor to prove that he was the Inventor of the fountain pen. lie was unable to win out against the powerful Influences arrayed against htm. It Is a fact that, he was certainly active In the field years and years before be-fore the nse of the fountain pen became be-came general. His first pen was oper ated by a screw cap which forced the Ink to the pen point by an occasional turn. He afterward Invented a self-filler. self-filler. In the early 1K)s his advertisements advertise-ments appeared In P. T. Barnum's first circus program and In the program of Tony Pastor's theater, both ventures long since passed away. He afterward after-ward established a plant In Baltimore which was wiped ont by the big fire. This broke the Inventor beyond recovery recov-ery and since that time be had presided pre-sided over a small pen-repairing establishment, estab-lishment, assisted by bis wife and daughter. |