Hammond Times, Volume 11, Number 131, Hammond, Lake County, 20 November 1916 — Page 8

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NINETY thousand women have discarded the washtub and the washboard. Ninety thousand women have found relief from the terrors of Monday they have saved themselves or their help the drudgery of wrestling with wet clothes they have cut down laundry expenses and they have saved their garments from the destructive rubbing that wears and tears the strongest fabric.

You women who continue the old, tiresome, expensive way of washing your clothes this is a message to you. This is to tell you how these ninety thousand women freed themselves from that slavery to the tub. This is to tell you how to make your clothes last six times as long and how to make them sweet and clean and pearly white without the exhausting labor of the old fashioned wash day. How you do drudge now over that tub and washboard! Think of next Monday! Think of breathing the hot vapors from the suds think of that back breaking rub, rub, rub think of the damp

clothes, the wet feet, the red hands and the weary muscles at the end of the day. Is that a task for a woman to endure? Ninety thousand voices answer No! When you struggle with heavy, wet blankets, when you see your fine lingerie worn and frayed by the ugly washboard will you wantonly exhaust your strength -will you needlessly wear out your clothes when a wonderful machine stands ready to take all that drudgery from your shoulders ? Come today and see the

The Washing Machine with the Automatic Safety Wringer you can't pinch your fingers.

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Learn the secret of a happy washday. Learn how you can save yourself all of that thankless labor and how you can cut down the cost of clothes by cutting out that useless rubbing.

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The Only Washing Machine with the Atalog that simple, ingenious, remarkable controlling device.

Posh a Button to Start-Push Another to Stop There's nothing simpler than to operate aThor. Put the suds in the tank and the clothes in the cylinder and push a button. Off it goes, sending a frreat mass of feathery foam through and through the garments. Dirt and grease can't resist, an attack like that. They simply "get up and go" they are cleaned out. And when you look at the clothes as they come from the machine, you simply wonder at it all. It's a sight to bring joy to the woman who ha given up the old tub and washboard way the tumbling white suds swishing to right and left, rising and falling in great bubbly billows doing ail the work that once called for that nerve and muscle wearing rub and wring. Press a button and the operation stops. Then push a lever and the wringer starts. Feed the clothes through it Into the rinse or blue water and back again and the washing is done. Isn't such a machine worth trying t

Pay a Little 3t & Time Just a small payment down tha balance in ammll monthly installments. How easy it is to have m Thor bow easy to get rid of that washday drudgery. Pay for it while yon are using it whlle it is saving your clothes while it Is saving money for yon. Come in or call up today about these easy terms.

No Garments Too Thin -None Too Heavy YourToofit delicate laces and yonr sheerest fabrics the things you handle so gently when you wash them come out perfectly clean, without a thread rubbed or worn. The Tbor washes them as you do not by rubbing but by sending the water through and through them, but it does it much more thoroughly than yon can by hand. The big. heavy blanket howyou wrestle with it in the tub wet and soggy what a Job to-really clean it and to wring it. Let the Thor handle it for you, and see how it comes out with a beautiful, fluffy surface absolutely clean, and you haven't had to touch it. All your clothes white'or colored light or heavy come from the Thor in all the beauty of perfect cleanliness unworn by robbing and without a particle of effort on your part. Isn't it a wonderfnl machine that will do the washing for you this way? Isn't it something worth looking into right now before another wash day comes around?

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Monday Morning Old Way There sbe 6tands the woman who is tied by habit to the old fashioned war of washing. The tub and the washboard grin up into her despairing face. It is their day of fun her day of rob and rub and work that strains every nerve and every muscle. This is the woman who hasn't found the easy, labor-saving, money-saving way to wash with the Thor. If at will only read what we say here if she will only act after she has read all those washday troubles will vanish.

Only 2 cents per hour for current almost nothing and you can do a good sized wash in an hour with the Thor. 2 cents to save yourself all that drudgery to save your clothes from the washboard to get six times the service from your clothes because they are saved from that awful mauling. What a little price to pay to make such a big caving! Just figure how much you will be in at the end of the year. Can you afford to be without a Thor?

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The sarins on clothes figure it out at G times the service will pay for the machine. Vou will really get the money back that you pay now aiid then year after year you will have the wonderful Thor at work for you. You could keep a Iaundr'ey s and have the machine too and even then the savjng on wear of the clothes would more than return what yoa give for the Thor. Figure it out.

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for current will not be more than 2 cents per hour. We know because we have the figures from thousands of users. And you will find that a good, big washing can be done in this little time an houi for 9 cents' worth of current. We also guarantee that the machine will be in perfect condition. If any part gives out, because of defective workmanship, we will replace it free of charge.

ISIg Offer it RJw We are making a great special offer now on the Thor. Vou ought to lei. us tell you about it. Anybody can have a Thor Washing Machine now. Crae in. Do this today or tomorrow sure. See the wonderful Thor Ironing Machine and the Thor hiei-trie Suction Cleaner, also.

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We invite you. Our time is at your service. There is no household device in which you should be so deeply interested as in the Thor We are proud of it because it has made such a wonderful record. Already in 90,000 homes making wash day easier for 90,000 women. Yes, wonderful. Put it in your home and try it. Get particulars about our big offer before next wash day.

Monday Morning New Way The Thor stands in the kitchen or laundry and does the work. All Madam has to do is to put the clothes Into it, and press the button. None of that sloppy, dismal washboard work for her. That's the new way that 90,000 bright women are using today. The Thor takes up but little room. It moves on casters and can be kept in a closet when not in use. Some women use it nsan extra table on other tbaa washday. Be sure tosee theThor, Jr., beautiful enameled an ornament to any home.

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