Does Your Family Washing Worry You
An old ad fragment promotes ironing and laundering tasks for home use. It lists sheets napkins handkerchiefs and tablecloths with shorthand pricing like 4c 3c and begs concern over family laundry burden.
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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1909
Page
8
An old ad fragment promotes ironing and laundering tasks for home use. It lists sheets napkins handkerchiefs and tablecloths with shorthand pricing like 4c 3c and begs concern over family laundry burden.
Wyoming woolgrower Thomas Painter stopped in Ogden en route to the Woolgrowers National convention at Pocatello. He backed Ogden as a central, convenient site and said Salt Lake delegates favor moving the next gathering here. Painter also discussed a boxing match in Pocatello and hinted he may referee the bout between Johnny Thompson and Peter Sullivan. He left Ogden at 2 26 this morning.
Ogden Utah stockholders met to hear the president report on a $10,000 mortgage and $3,600 old debt, with $10,600 in new improvements. Directors proposed a four state fair, additional assessments, and laws to exempt fair property from taxes while seeking public and business support to retire remaining debts.
Seven hundred or more than two thirds of all stock were represented at the meeting, a larger participation than at the previous annual gathering.
Rocco Teiesco of Palme Calabria, now in Ogden, pleads with Consul Frazzini for word on his wife, two children, parents, and siblings feared lost in the southern Italian earthquake. He cannot work until he learns their fate, fearing total devastation. He learned Palme lies near Regelo, amid widespread ruin.
The Utah legislature met briefly and adjourned after roll call to attend the Good Roads convention. The Senate passed one bill designating February 12 as a legal holiday in honor of Abraham Lincoln's birthday. Speaker Robinson did not announce committee appointments. President Gardner announced them for the press day. The body plans to reconvene at 2 pm, while road survey work proceeds and West coordinates early grading.
An Ogden delegation of about fifty sheep men and supporters left yesterday on a special train to attend the National Woolgrowers Convention opening at Pocatello. Utah expects 150 delegates, aiming to bring the 1910 convention to Utah, likely Ogden. The group will join a larger Utah contingent and press for the wool storage plan while Utah exhibitors prepare for the fat sheep show.
Ogden Rapid Transit orders rapid construction of a four mile canyon trolley route from the canyon mouth to the Hermitage. Joseph West heads the project and has called for bids on grading and rock work. West plans multiple gangs starting from the first rock cut east of the flat county line toward Billy Wilson with headquarters at the transit company's office.
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