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For more than an hour, behind the prescription counter, the old doctor and the
clerk talked in low tones. Then the doctor left. He went out to the buggy and
brought back a large, old fashioned kettle, a big wooden paddle (used for stirring
the contents of the kettle), and deposited them in the back of the store.

The clerk inspected the kettle, reached into his inside pocket, took out a roll of
bills, and handed it over to the doctor. The roll contained exactly $500.oo-the
clerk's entire savings! The doctor handed over a small slip of paper on which
was written a secret formula. The words on that small slip of paper were worth a
King's ransom! But not to the doctor! Those magic words were needed to start the
kettle to boiling, but neither the doctor nor the young clerk knew what fabulous
fortunes were destined to flow from that kettle.

The old doctor was glad to sell the outfit for five hundred dollars. The money
would pay off his debts, and give him freedom of mind. The clerk was taking a
big chance by staking his entire life's savings on a mere scrap of paper and an old
kettle! He never dreamed his investment would start a kettle to overflowing with
gold that would surpass the miraculous performance of Aladdin's lamp. What the
clerk really purchased was an IDEA! The old kettle and the wooden paddle, and
the secret message on a slip of paper were incidental. The strange performance of
that kettle began to take place after the new owner mixed with the secret instruc-
tions an ingredient of which the doctor knew nothing.

Read this story carefully, give your imagination a test! See if you can discover
what it was that the young man added to the secret message, which caused the
kettle to overflow with gold. Remember, as you read, that this is not a story from
Arabian Nights. Here you have a story of facts, stranger than fiction, facts which
began in the form of an IDEA.

Let us take a look at the vast fortunes of gold this idea has produced. It has paid,
and still pays huge fortunes to men and women all over the world, who distribute
the contents of the kettle to millions of people.

The Old Kettle is now one of the world's largest consumers of sugar, thus provid-
ing jobs of a permanent nature to thousands of men and women engaged in grow-
ing sugar cane, and in refining and marketing sugar.

The Old Kettle consumes, annually, millions of glass bottles, providing jobs to
huge numbers of glass workers. The Old Kettle gives employment to an army of
clerks, stenographers, copy writers, and advertising experts throughout the na-
tion. It has brought fame and fortune to scores of artists who have created mag-
nificent pictures describing the product.

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