While researching Monarch programming, I came across this image of a soap baby in a box made in the late 1800's by the Monarch Soap Company in Lancaster, PA.
This caption from the Smithsonian on the soap baby says:
Both Bryan and McKinley issued a campaign "soap baby." Future politicians abandoned this item apparently because voters thought it looked too much like a baby in a coffin. The text on the package says, "My Papa will Vote for BRYAN."
This was before women's right to vote so 'Papa' was receiving this. Also, men are giving these out as campaign favors, not a women's baby shower. Not much makes sense about it.
Both 33rd degree masons, William Mckinley(R) and William Jennings Bryan(D) used these one of many of their campaign favors and handouts. There is little info on the internet on these other than 'perhaps the oddest political collectible'.
If I'm way off, it's possible. This was just something that caught my pizzagate-trained eye.
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chickyrogue ago
everything starts to appear as what it is and also what it could be in context
and all of the above would be read by those in the "know"