Picture Play Magazine (Sep 1920 - Feb 1921)

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Advertising Section 7 S WILL. TRAIN YOU AT HOME Say! Fellows — Read Facts Is there much call for trained Electricians in this old TJ. S. ? Is there? Say, there's millions of dollars' worth of work waiting for you to fit yourself to do. Positions by the thousands — at the highest rates of pay ever known — POSITIONS WORTH ALL KINDS OF MONEY — SIMPLY LYING LOOSE— just WAITING for you to fill them. Let me qualify you. It won't take long by my Spare Time. Practical and wonderfully successful Home Study Course. Your Success is Guaranteed I guarantee your success in the study of my condensed, simplified, get-down-to-business. Home Course, with a Cash Bond. You take NO chances. I'm here to make good — and I will — and do — make good. BUT YOU WILL SUCCEED. I know it — because you love this grand profession, and your heart tells you you can win if you are trained honest, fair and square, and practically. Why, you ought to be making in a few weeks, MORE MONEY EVERY WEEK than the small sum you pay me monthly for teaching you. Both newcomers and experienced electrical students have increased their income several times over — often months before their courses were finished. My Course Has World-Wide Approval I've made Electrical study vastly interesting. My course will hold you. It grips red-blooded chaps. They see money in it. It quickly gets them moving onward and upward. It isn't highbrow— nor mushy. It teaches practical stuff, with the college-trimmings left off — in language you can easily understand. It's a live man's course — speedy and fast — yet so thorough, so complete, so up to date, that my students rise rapidly and capture the fancy jobs, or DEVELOP PINE BUSINESSES OF THEIR OWN. It covers everything, including the latest auto and marine electricity. I Have Been Through the Mill I am a practical man. I have made a big success. I am chief engineer of the Chicago Engineering Works, the finest institution of its kind on earth. I KNOW what you need to know — and I will tell it to you — and train you in it like a veteran — and send vou out with your Certificate, CONFIDENT IN YOUR ABILITY TO MEET ANY DEMAND. My boys are often called "Wizards." I'll teach you electricity — I'll teach you E-L-E-C-T-R-I-CI-T-Y, from A to Z. Proof in Plenty I Work for You I shall take a deep, personal interest in you. I prove this by deeds not words. I GIVE YOU THE BEST COURSE ON EARTH for less than half others charge. I help you for years after you graduate. I DO THINGS FOR MY STUDENTS no one else does, and some things that I don't even tell you about before you enroll. READ WHAT MY STUDENTS SAY: "Mr. Cook can, and will, get you a job, hut that part unnecessary, because, if you study, he will make you proficient, and then there will be any number of jobs LOOKING FOR YOU."— O. W. Chamberlain, Little Eagle, So. Dak., to a prospective student. "Have just received my diploma, of which I am very proud. I think your Course is the most complete I have ever seen. I have received my money's worth many times, and any fellow that turns down your offer is _sure going to regret it." — Loran C. Brown, Sebring, Ohio. "Since I started to study with you a year ago I have, doing electrical work in my spare time, made the price of 2 Courses, and have increased my earning power just 100 per cent." — Samuel Albright, Riverside, Wash. "During May I made about $65.00 in my spare Ume. I can hand you the credit, because when I started I knew NOTHING about Electricity."—L. Randell, Tronton, Minn. "You will be pleased to learn of my promotion to Chief Electrician. It was your course put me where I am. Although only a little over hair through your lessons, I have had my wages raised from $75.00 to $275.00 a month, and expect to do better before I am through," — H.. E. Wolf, Columbus. Ohio. "In the past ten years I've been doing a lot of studying, both by correspondence and through text hooks, hut never before have I been able to learn as I have with you." — J. B. Ham, Chief Electrician, Albright Coal Co. , Tunnelton, W. Virginia. . _ "When I enrolled with you I was only able to make $75.00 a month. Today, thanks to your splendid lessons. I am in business for myself, making over $400.00 a month." — A. Schreck, Phoenix, Arizona. "Electrical men here speak very highly of your course. One — the Fresno Manager of the General Electric Company — says your course is equal to the three years' training course at their Schenectady shops." — E. Linnvtlle, Fresno, Calif. "I want to speak a good word in regard to your Course and methods. It has helped me wonderfully. I passed a Journeyman's examination with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, and am now carrying a firstclass card." — J. R. Overton, Maryville, Tenn. "When I enroljed — I knew nothing about Electricity. Today I am the highest paid workman for the Marsena Light & Power Co." — C. C. Burkhart, Massena, N. Y. "You don't know how glad I am that my son has found such a man as you. I only wish other mothers knew of the interest you take in your students — their boys." — Mrs. S. S. Williams. Huntington Beach, Cal. "I am still holding that position with the Minneapolis Steel & Machinery Company, secured on your recommendation. " — A. Swanson, Minneapolis, Minn. ^ ^ Complete Letters Sent When You Write Me Employment Service — Free YOU AN D My men are usually well placed before they are through the course. But every graduate should keep in touch with me, for I know of splendid openings practically all the time. Big employers are continually asking me for men, and I am always GLAD TO ASSIST MY STUDENTS TO SECURE THESE GOOD POSITIONS. Fine Electrical Outfit — Free I give each student a SPLENDID FREE OUTFIT OF ELECTRICAL TOOLS, Material and Electrical Measuring Instruments for home experimental and study work, and besides this, I provide them with other practical supplies which I haven't space to describe here— all the best of their kind and designed to help YOU make rapid, practical progress. Get Going — Write Me — Now I never made a cent hanging back, and neither will you. Write me today for full particulars. Details will cost you nothing but a stamp and you'll enjoy reading my big book. Tear off the coupon— mail it— and get a copy— FREE. No Students under 15 yrs. accepted. L. L. COOKE, Chief Engineer Chicago Engineering Works Dept. 449, 1918 Sunnyside Ave., Chicago, 111. Chicago Engineering Wo r k sf Dept. 449, 19 1 8 Sunnyside Ave., Chicago, HI. Dear Sir: Send at once sample Lessons, your Big Book, and full particulars of your Free Outfit and Home Study Courseall fully prepaid, without obligation on my part. 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