Bisbee daily review., 1911-01-17
PURD0H SANITARY
 BAG MARES \ HIT
LAUNDRYMEN PREDICT GREAT DEMAND FOR THE REGENT
 DOUGLAS INVENTOR
lpouglas Internatlonal.l )

| When the Purdona Sanitary Laun ldry Bag company. Of which B. A. Packard is president and treasurer was formed with Douglas capital, the stockholders entered the com iTany on the strength of the descrip- tion of the proposed bag by Charles Purdon, it's inventor They saw no sample for none had been mannfac tured. Hence they have awaited with interest for the samples which Pur- don was to have made in the east to send to this city These samples arrived yesterday and proved highly pleasing to ali who are interested in the company and makes them more than ever certain that the bag will be in great demand and prove a big moneymaker for the Douglas company It is convenient, simple and above all else fills the want
 Two samples of the Purdona Laua, dry bag were received yesterday, one shirt case and the other of the laundry bag. the latter beng Of the largest sizes that Will be used. 1t is of heavy, tough paper. with
 enforced mouth in which are set eyetets through which passes a gath eriRg string. Within is a second sack Of parahne paper which is the sani- tsry feature of the bag. Ths para fine paper is impervious to the ar and is to be thrown away at inc l aundry with each using while the outer bag can be used several times. On the outside is a pocket for the
 aundry list and the face Of this pocket is also of parafine paper so that the name Of the owner Of the laundry written on the list shows through. 1t is handy and answers every objection that the most fau,t- finding made 10 the proposed bags at the outset It can be manufac- tured cheaply and since the adyer- ltisements which 1t will bear will Far- nish the profits to the compaay caE be furnihsed to launaries or hotels for the actual cost Of manufacture.
 Since the man demand for tae bag will be with hotels and laun- dries a reporter showed the bag to Billy Baskwell the day clerk at the Gadsden He looked the has over carefully and in response to the query as to whether he thought it would be go with the hotels re piled It surely will The hoteis
 i'll have 10 use them. They fil . want Guests find f. nuisance to hunt up paper and twine to tie up their laundry A bag in the room win save lots Of time and trouble. ! think they will te pop- ular and should have a large sase , with the hotels
 Next a call was made at the Inter
 iational Laundry and Fred Nicho.s was seen. -so this is the bag" said he T have wanted to see it for
 then Mir. Pardon told me of it first said l thought it would be a go and ha hat re would use t. Yes they in sell There are lots Of laundry 'cods and novelties not nearly SC good as this that sell We are ire quently asked for laundry bags but
 eth ones cannot be furnished cheap
 ' enough and we have not felt we could anord to use them. We shall
 ise the Purdona bag as soon as we
 an get them. l know that the Bis. y ee laundry also wants them. Yes. ? hey will be Tn general use but I F only twenty per cent Of the laun
 dries use them it will require an in g mense factory to turn them out
 l. The laundry bags put out by the Purdona company will te Of several 2 sizes for individual or for family use
 Purdon has left Chicago and is now ' in Duluth and Mir Packard also ex q poets to go east in connection witt .- the business Of the company in the d course of a week or so.