Anyone in Alton who wants to have washing done, call on Senator Edmond Beall. He has taken up a fad of doing laundry work.
-from the Alton Evening Telegraph, Alton, Illinois, October 6, 1913
Anyone in Alton who wants to have washing done, call on Senator Edmond Beall. He has taken up a fad of doing laundry work. Some time ago, the 47th senatorial district’s representative in the Illinois Senate became interested in the purchase of an electric washing machine, guaranteed to do the work of laundrying household linen with efficiency and dispatch. The senator bought the machine and since then he has been putting in his Monday mornings at home. He was planning to go to Springfield Sunday night with Lieutenant Governor O’Hara, but he recalled that Monday was wash day and so he stayed in his home and will go to Springfield tonight. The senator says that he can turn out twelve tubs of thoroughly laundered linen before 11 o’clock in the morning. He can clean clothes as fast as they can be carried out and hung on the line. The machine is fascinating, and the senator is having a time of it – until the novelty wears off. He has superintended the working of the electric machine for three weeks now, and he is more interested than ever. The reason he bought the machine is that there was some trouble in getting competent help on wash day.
