Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1850-04-13
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CAL COMPOUND WASH MIXTURE. one OF the
most useful and important inventions of modern times
Warranted to give entire satisfaction, and destined to
effect an entire revolution in the business the aun
dries being improved preparation for washing clothes
perfectly with astonishing facility and despatch, and
without injury to texture color.
Every family OF whatever size, do all their wash
ing in onethird othe time required in the usual way
without the labor OF rubbing, pounding, bleaching or
friction thus saving time expense and labor, and Sc
curing exemption from the diseases caused by the ex
posue and fatigue incident to the usual mode Of wash
ing while clothing itself will be saved from the wear
and tear OF the wash-board and friction, and last much
longer.
THE WASH MIXTURE is one Of the most useful
and important inventions produced BY modern science
1t intended to confer special benefits domestic life
and the arts, and to promote comfort, economy, and
the preservation OF health and life. With this article
washing can be done with the utmost ease, and in
inconceivably short time.
No injury whatever is sustained by the material tex
ture color, of any thing washed with this mixture
Its component parts have been submitted to the exami
nation OF eminent chemists, whose testimony Is entirely
in its favor The obvious advantages of this great i'm
provement will be apparent from the following consi-
deratons:
l. Time is saved exclusive of the rinsng and dry
ing, 30 minutes is all the time that clothes remain in
the mixture in washing paint, single application,
without friction followed by rnsng, completes the
work
9 The wear and tear of clothes resulting from the
injurious effects of friction, or the OF the wash
board entirely avoided that every thing will last
much longer.
s. Hard and exhaustlng labor, and the consequent ia
tgue and exposure which often produces painful or fatal
deeases, is avoided.
A. Asless soap is needed and injury to clothes and
health prevented and time redeemed believe this to
be the most economical mode OF washing.
Those wishing to test the utility of Cranes improved
wash mixture obtain by applying to the subscr-
ber to Mr. Atherton at the Eagle House, opposite
the Columbian Hotel.
The subscriber has purchased of Mr. Stephen Crane,
of Charleston, S. c., the patent right for the State of
hiS 1p1nrn OH col Oh whit
which he his agent, will sell by county or family
rights All those wishing to purchase will please call
on the subscriber, at the Columbian 1 n, Hotel
MATHEW McKEEVER.
In our families the washing is better done.in one
third OF the time with Cranes Wash Mixture, than
formerly with common soap. The labor lighter and
the friction less upon the clothes. We esteem it as
highly valuable Improvement.
C. S. MORGAN,
JOHN JACOB,
Richmond, March 10th, 1850. JAS. NESBITT.
We have continued to use Cranes Wash Mixture,
and are quite as well pleased with it as when we gave
the above statement Y. 5. MORGAN,
JAS. NESBITT,
April 8, 1850. JOHN JACOB.
ALEXANDRIA, March 10, 1850.
The undersigned citizens of Alexandria, having used
in their families, for time past Cranes Com
pound Wash Mixture" are fully satisfied with its incom
parable utility 1t is truly great saving OF labor while
the clothes rendered beautifully white and clean "a
j. H. McVeigh, Mrs. Phineas Janney
VIM. G. Cazenove, Mrs. John Lloyd,
S. ]. Sanders, Mrs Reid Cross,
Charles Neale, Miss Rebeeca Janney.
Cassius +. Lee,
MARCH 49, 1850.
Having seen and carefully examined the recipe for
Cranes Patent Compound Wash Mixture" | can say,
from an intimate acquaintance with the properties OF
each of the ingredients that is much less injuriouSto
the texture and colors of all kinds OF fabric than the
binary mode of washing.
r. II. STABLER,
ap l0-eo3t Chemist Alexandra, Va
GITY STOCK.-For sale, Stock of the city
~ of Richmond, to be issued for the construction of
the City Gas Works. Apply to -.,,,
JAMES BOSIiER,
Chairman of the Committee on Light
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