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About The Hillsboro argus. (Hillsboro, Or.) 1895-current | View Entire Issue (April 11, 1929)
1929 THE ■— HILLSBORO ARGUS—HILLSBORO, OREGON L ’ — I ■ .... PAGE SEVEN ■■■ — for HILLSBORO one of the fineft family Iawndric in all America! IS hard to believe, but it is true! Hillsboro, I T today, boasts one of the finest family laun FORMAL OPENING Wednesday Night, 7:00 to 9:30 dries in all America—probably the finest, most ultra-modern, in the entire Willamette Valley! Today an entirely new-type laundry serves the people of Washington County. A laundry as vastly improved over old ways as today’s fine motor car over the antiquated 1904 model! This marvelous new plant—a marvel of san itation and cleanliness—will prove a revelation to Hillsboro people. Do not fail to attend the big Public Opening, Wednesday night, April 17. All Washington County will be here. What you see will amaze you. We promise you some big surprises! The March of Modern Science This beautiful new plant is the crowning culmination of a steady, constant improvement in scientific laundering methods, which has been little realized by the public. Some eight years ago modern sci ence began to focus its searching en ergies upon modern woman’s great est domestic problem—the family washing and ironing. Old ways were found harmful to fabric. Countless laboratory experi ments followed. New formulas were tried, tested and discarded until the correct scien tific methods were evolved. The Home Laun dry of Hillsboro has subscribed to this scientific ef fort —contributed to its s u p p o r t, We have put an END to washdays in hun dreds of local homes. Be sure to come. We promise you many sur prises. You will find a modern laundry vastly different than you supposed. What you see will amaze you! We invite you to compare our vastly improved scientific methods with your way. See why we have put an END to washdays in hundreds of Hillsboro homes! quantities. But we will give you a sample to try. We pay just twice as much to get it as free- alkali soaps would cost. We pay this high price gladly, IN ORDER TO PROTECT YOUR CLOTHES. We Rinse Clothes SIX Times! Science found rinsing the most important factor in clothes washing. Laboratory tests showed that no less than five or six thorough rinses will carry off the soap and dirt. So we Be sure to come to opening of Willamette Valley's installed equipment permitting us to finest laundry and dry cleaning plant. give your clothes SIX thorough rinses, in SIX changes of fresh clean water. Compare that with the way effect upon fabric. A through the Laundry- you are forced to do at home! famous chemist invent Owners’ National As- > 1 k ed it. Its iron-clad pat Science found water temperatures sociation, which main ents are controlled by HELPFUL, LOW tains an extensive ex have a tremendous effect upon the PRICED SERVICES one of America’s great perimental station at quality of laundry work. So we in corporations. Mellon Institute, in installed new-type washing ma Pittsburgh. We have This new wonder chines. Now each suds and rinse adopted the new easier- soap is as controlled, as bath is kept at the scientifically-pre on-clothes methods of neutral in action, as scribed temperature for the particu modern science. easy on fabric, as the lar type of clothing being washed. purest, finest facial Today even sheerest Clothes Are Carefully SORTED soap. A whole barrel chiffon-daintiest lace- of it, dissolved in hot delicate silk and rayon When first your bundle enters our steam-water, could not -may safely be sent to plant, its contents are carefully sort injure the most fragile the Home Laundry. ed. Each article is segregated for garment. And yet it washing in the particular formula Routing the Unseen contains double the prescribed by sanitary science for Enemy to Fabric 1______ washing strength and that type of fabric or color. The most important power of injurious free- We make between 17 and 30 dif advance contribution by modern sci alkali soaps, such as you are forced ferent segregations in a single day’s ence, perhaps, involves the change to use in washing clothes at home! run in our plant-each to be washed in materials used in washing. No other soap ever made has its according to a separate scientific colloidal, clothes - protecting qual An entirely NEW washing prin formula. ities combined with high washing ef ciple has been perfected. Experts ficiency. It gets white clothes whiter long have known that pure, mild, —colored clothes brighter, more neutral soap alone lacks sufficient Preparing the purifying snappy, till colors power to get clothes really clean. sterilizing bath—exactly literally sparkle — That is why soapmakers purposely as prescribed by noted ex perts in sanitary science* add free-alkali (caustic) to the woolens softer and home-used laundry soaps, chips and more fluffy — silks powders you buy at the store. just like new again! You cannot buy this Today we use a marvelous new wonder-soap—a mineral-base soap- wonder-soap. It is exactly opposite in its action and sold only in barrel 4 ]—DBIP-WASH Savw far more work thnn any home method -at LESS COST. Everythin» acien- tifically washed with pure ma terial* in Nl}iE changes of CLEAN water. and returned slightly damp, just right for iron ing. 15 pound». 60c, 4c each ad ditional pound. 2—THRIFT SERVICE Same as Wet-Wash, except all flat pieces are ironed. 11 pounds, 75c, 6c each additional pound. >—ECONOMY SERVICE — Ev erything dried, and all flat pieces irone«! 7 pounds. 50c, 7c each additional pound. Shirt« in this service finished for 10c each. 4_ ROUGH DRY — Everything dried. required starching done, and flat piece» ironed. 6 pounds, 50c. 9c each additional pound. Shirts in this service finished for 10c each. PFMFMRFP Wednesday night, 7:00 to 9:30. Sou- -'A’-ILflUl/LdK venirs for every woman. See with your own eyes what a new-day ultra-modern scientific laundry is like. See with your own eyes what happens to clothes when you send them to the HOME/ LAUNDRY ——t, phone 47 s------- 1 No guess methods here! Every basic formula is as carefully balanced as a ■lew*« pPVMJ rpiKMk