Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 4, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 May 1933 — Page 14

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There IS something new under the Sun: Another Progress Laundry Innovation

SAYS NET BAGS SAVE FABRICS Laundry Expert Gives Details of New Method That Saves “Wear.” Foremost Laundries in Lead* ing Cities Flocking to Net Bag Washing. “Greatest improvement in the history of commercial laundries,” declared a leading textile manufacturer. "Will save millions of dollars a year in shirts alone,” says a department store shirt buyer. "Women will no longer hesitate to send their finer things,” commented a housewife. The idea of placing the things to be washed in stout net bags has introduced anew era in the laundry business—and in a hitherto annoying phase of housekeeping in many homes. EVERYTHING SEPARATE The saving of wear on fabrics is an '< important, but not the only advantage of | washing in net bags. It makes possible a i more general division of a family washing | into separate classifications according to material, kind, color, etc. First of all, the entire bundle of a single family is carefully sorted by experts, and divided into as many separate classifications as the circumstances warrant. This may mean half a dozen different lots—or a dozen —or more—all depends on what's in that bundle. White things may be divided into severj al different bags—colors are segregated, ! one color lrom another, and colored articles of one material from colored ar- | tides of another material—woolens go | one way, cottons another—silks by them- ! selves—rayons in a different lot, and so on. Your washing, of course, kept sepa- | rate from others. INDIVIDUAL TREATMENT The various kinds, materials and colors require widely different handling. Some require special soap, others may demand cool water washing dft might interest you to know we now have a soap which will wash things clean even in ICE WATER ). Certain articles pass through more waters than others. In short, the net bag method enables us to give every single piece exactly the treatment it should have. Makers and sellers of certain household linens and wearing apparel guarantee their products to wash if—if, mind you—the washing be done in a specified way. The home manager, or her maid can scarcely be expected to remember all the instructions in such matters, and besides, ! the average home lacks the facilities to do ! the work as it should be done. Even in the selection of soap a wellinformed woman may well give up in despair, for makers of all sorts of soap put forward the same all-inclusive claims some of them even warning against all I the others. As to soaps, any good laundry I uses better soap than housewives ordinarily get at the grocery for washing clothes. • NETS GET THE WEAR” It has been demonstrated to the satisfaction of laundry owners, textile mill operators, weavers, shirt makers, garment makers, department store experts, specialty shop owners, investigating committees, and finally, to millions of woman patronizing the foremost laundries in all big cities, that washing done in net bags causes less wear on linens and clothing than any other known method. The Progress Laundry was recently requested to wash a shirt 100 times in order j that a certain department store might ad- ! vertise the fact that this particular shirt—a low-price garment, by the way—would stand up. We felt that PROGRESS LAUNDRY, as well as the shirt, was being put to a test. Well, we washed and ironed that shirt 152 times, think of that— WASHED AND IRONED IT ONE HUN- j DRED AND FIFTY-TW r O TIMES and returned it in good shape. They used it for a window' display. Net bag washing, now sweeping the country, is going to pay its way by the millions of dollars worth of linens and clothing it SAVES. In fact, the more you patronize a laundry which washes in nets, the longer it will be before you have to buy new sheets, tablecloths, towels, dresses, shirts, etc.

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tYour Washing Is NOW Done in NET BAGS at th'e PROGRESS LAUNDRY Clothes will last MUCH longer - - - „ 0 than when washed at home bas his we ust a few - r r i-not many LtlUrge JOT the bag is tied id immersed in a £/*£ Kxtm SeVVICC r suds. r 11 6 n 3. ;e of suds. Then another—.till another. Then as as NINE rinses— ALL in soft . mind you. 7Z “ -w m W m Clothes get the Wash IV T I # [h v CJ the WEAR # / There’s a service for every family need— Some even as low as 51c a week

No matter what laundry service you want, Progress has it. The following is just a brief—a very brief—outline—merely a suggestion: We do your washing and return it DAMP, all ready for you to iron, at 5c a pound (last of week, 4c lb.), min. 51c. Or we will include the ironing of all flat work (bed, bath and table linen), leaving just the apparel for you to iron, at 7c a pound (last of week 6V2C pound) min. 51c.

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We have also convenient partial services in which the unironed articles are returned DRY, so they may await your convenience for ironing. Bc, 9c, and 10c a pound, min, 51c. We’re particularly proud of our “Economy” finished service at 13c a pound for equal pounds of -wearing apparel and flat work. Rates adjusted when pounds of either exceeds the other; min. 51. 02. We make a special low rate for SHIRTS included in any of the above services.

Send Your Window Shades to be Cleaned and Re-Filled

But if you want the “Last Word in Laundry Service,” just try our “De Luxe” service which comes at regular “Family Finished” price. A hand-iron-ing service, where you can demand just what you want—AND GET IT, even to the satisfaction of your personal whims in the manner of folding, the amount of starch used, etc. Although different laundries often have different names for the same or similar services, any possible confusion disappears when you patronize Progress because we have every service.

Sash curtains 20c pair. All others 30c pr. Dried on pads, exact size without “stretching.” Blankets—mill process—no shrinkage. Shades cleaned 20c and up according to size and kind. Feather Beds and Pillows washed right in the tick. We also handle ALL dry cleaning—Ladies’ and Men’s garments, Oriental and Domestic Rugs, Draperies, Upholstered Furniture. RUG SHAMPOO-ING —52.00 for any 9x12 domestic rug.

MAY 16, 1933