Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1888 — SOAP PEDDLERS IN WALTHAM. [ARTICLE]

SOAP PEDDLERS IN WALTHAM.

A Sharp Trick Played by a Crowd of Itinerant Venders. Two or three days ago Chief of Police Burleigh, of Waltham, learned that six or seven Btrangers were in the city peddling what parported to be Pearline, and that in connection therewith they were perpetrating what was practically a fraud. It seems that they had two teams and were canvassing the town very thoroughly. Going from house to house, they would offer packages of what they called Pearline, although in order to save themselves from the grip of the law, they had labeled them “Perline." With every eight packagos, which they sold for #l, they gave eight bars of soap. The Chief encountered them on the street, and two of the men—one on each team —who seemed to have the handl ug of the business gave their names as Isaac G. Worcester ana Hiram Belding. They claimed, in response to the charge that they were peddling without a license, that they were selling goods of their own manufacture aud that they were giving the soap away. Before the case could be presented to Judge Luce and a warrant obtained they had all “ skipped ” the town, and numerous families are now bewailing the fact that they have a lot of worthless powder and light bars of poor soap, worth, all told, less tnan 25 cents, to show for a good dollar. The names of the party, as registered at the Prospeot House, wnere they stopped while in Waltham, are E. H. Barnes, John Goodwin, C. D. Osgood, C. A Frost, J. Malcolm, H. Carroll, and 0. H. Haley.—Boston Herald ROUGH ON PILES. Quick, complete cure. 50c. BUCHU-PAIBA, Great Kidney Remedy. *L WELLS’ HEALTH RENEWEIt for weak men. WELLS’ HAIR BALSAM. If gray, gradually restores oolor; elegant tonic dressing. 50a