Daytripping Summer 2023

Lake Huron
The
Daytripper
Mrs. Bell’s
Specializing ing in
Afternoon Tea
Making every day
a special occasion!
thrift store
• Furniture • Housewares • Clothing • Toys
Your purchases enable us to donate in
Chatham and around the world.
Tuesday to Friday 9-4 • Saturday 9-2
127 Colburne St., Chatham, N7M 3L8
(Just down from Rona) • 519-352-0911
We’ve made it to CHATHAM - See the Capitol Theatre shows on the back page.
Tea
RoomR
Wed.-Sat.
11 to 4
11 3rd St, CHATHAM • 226-627-0248
GENTLY USED ~ PREVIOUSLY LOVED
• Furniture • Small Appliances
• Housewares • Clothing • Decor
Regular Hours: MON-FRI 9 to 4 • SAT 10 to 4
JULY 8 TO SEPT 2: SATURDAYS 9 to 1
202 Queen Street
Chatham • 519-354-5033
How long a
minute is
depends which
side of the
bathroom door
you're on.
HISTORY OF
SHOP
NY
LOCAL
Edwin Perkins was always fascinated by chemistry and enjoyed
inventing things. When his family moved to southwest Nebraska at the
turn of the century, young Perkins experimented with homemade
concoctions in his mother's kitchen. When Perkins was a young man, he
set up a mail order business called Perkins Products Co. to market the
numerous products he had invented including Nix-O-Tine, a remedy to
kick the tobacco habit. By 1920, the demand for this and other products
was so great, Perkins and his wife moved to Hastings, which had better
rail service for shipping purposes.
Another product that was proving to be popular was a concentrated
drink mix called Fruit Smack. Fruit Smack came in six flavours. The
four-ounce bottle made enough for a family to enjoy at an affordable
price. However, shipping the bottles proved to be costly, and breakage
was becoming a problem as well.
In 1927, Perkins developed a method of removing the liquid from Fruit
Smack so the remaining powder could be re-packaged in envelopes
(which Perkins designed and printed) under a new name called
"Kool-Ade". (He later changed the spelling to Kool-Aid).
The product, which sold for 10 cents a packet, was first sold to
wholesale grocery, candy, and other markets by mail order in six
flavours (strawberry, cherry, lemon-lime, grape, orange, and raspberry).
In 1929, Kool-Aid was distributed nationwide to grocery stores by food
brokers. It was a family project to package and ship it around the
country. By 1931, the demand for Kool-Aid was so strong; Perkins'
company sold only Kool-Aid and moved the entire
production to Chicago for more efficient distribution.
During the Great Depression, Perkins cut the price to
5 cents, and around this time young entrepreneurs
set up Kool-Aid stands. After World War II, Perkins
expanded the factory, and by 1950, 300 workers
produced nearly a million packets of Kool-Aid each
day. In 1953, Perkins sold Kool-Aid to General Foods.
MI
ONTARIO
Submitted by
Ruth Sharon
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Hawaiian pizza was invented by restauranteur Sam Panopoulus in Chatham, 1962.
Summer 2023