The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-23
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Riverside, put up in two pound pack
ages, and R. S. V. P. in three pound
and five pound packages. This brand,
the Interpretation of whose letters are
Rock Salt Very Pure, has, we think, the
largest sale of any salt in the United
States, being sold from coast to coast.
We sell nearly all of the salt con-
sumed by the pork packers of Missouri,
Iowa. Nebraska and Kansas.
Miss Virgiline Mulvane and Miss
Pearl Powleson will be in constant at
tendance at our booth and will give out
II 900 samples of our product during
the next week. and next Saturday we
will give out 500 salt shakes free
Mr.. Baker has been with the COM
pany since its organization and has the
distinction of being the first man to
sell a barrel of salt manufactured in
and from the products of Kansas.
Their First Advertisement
Following is the first advertisement
of Hutchinson. Kansas. re-
quest the pleasure of your orders for
their famous R. S. V. p. Table Salt
Your grocer can obtain this salt from
any of the wholesale grOcerS after May
1, 1891 This notice was accompanied
by the following poetry:
A Legend of Olympus.
The gods of old dined upon cold
Thin mist and thinner air.
No flesh of beasts adorned their feaStS,
Nor knew they need of such.
Till as a guest, one of the best
OF Paris famous chefs
Paid them a Gala visit small,
Yet great in its results.
Pressed to partake-''Gods, We mistake
In calling such things food;
Do not decline meat. fruit and wine
I'll teach thee how to fare.
He baked and brewed. steamed. broiled
But horror!' he exclaimed.
"a dish is fiat, no doubt of that.
Unless seasoned we'll with salt
So speed away. Don't linger, pray
Or all my labor'S lost;
Go search and fnd-no other kind,
R. S. V. p table salt.
The Hutchinson News of a few days
ago published the following excellent
notice:
0R. S. v. P" Table Salt
Until a few years ago the letters r. s.
V. P. meant, wherever seen, "ReSpOn-
dez, sill vous pIait" or Answer, if you
please" Not so today. Through the
of the KansasSalt company
of this city these letters are now read,
Rock Salt Very Pure"
Every reader of the News probably
knows that this famous brand of salt is
in Hutchinson, but prob
ably a great majority are like the News
was i. e., have never visited
the plant and seen this salt put up
ready for the market. Through the kind
ness of w. L. Moore, manager of the
Kansas Salt company, the News report
er yesterday paid a visit to the RIVER
side salt plant. The Riverside plant, to
look at it from the outside, is like all
other salt plants, but on entering the
building the visitor is at once struck
with the general order, thrift and clean
illness of the entire plant. The News
man was at once shown into that part
of the plant where r. s. V. 2. is put up
for the market, and here he found a
dozen girls at work in a room which,
for its cleanliness will surprise and WISH
tor. The floors are not covered with
Brussels carpet, but they are kept so
clean and white that they contrast ia
with the, white, gliStening salt
which the girls rare busy packing in
those handsome Autograph boxes that
are now being displayed so cOnSpic-
uously in all the best grocery houses in
the large cities, and also many of the
ones. Packing the salt in these
handsome boxes makes it rather ex-
pensive, but it has been proven that
people will pay for the beautiful as well
as the useful by the enormous sales
that are being made daily.
Overhead the working room the COM
pany has provided a comfortable apart
ment, for the working girls exclusively,
where they can go and rest and ear
their meals. One noticeable thing about
the Kansas Salt company is that they
look out for the comfort of their
employees
The Kansas Salt company deserves
great credit for placing this article on
the market. 1t is to Hutchinson it's
grea test advertisement. Just think of it.
Eight to ten million packages of r. s..
V p. are sold annually, going into near
" every county in the Union, and each
package has printed on it the words: R.
S. V P. Manufactured by the Kansas
Salt company, Hutchinson, Kansas"
Think of the millions of families that
ora Tins faVOra bIV introduced to Hutch
inSOn.
The r. S. V. P. table salt is an indis-
pensible article in the kitchen or on the
dining table, and the News will venture
to say that a housewife once using this
salt will never have any other brand.