Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-10-19
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out extra charge, which used any one of these 70
Acetylene Generators had found safe and effective,
just as it permitted houses to be piped for City Gas,
or wired for Electricity, under proper conditions.
Now, the Insurance Companies ought to know
whether these 20 different makes of Acetyene
Generators absolutely Safe to use.
Because, they have to pay the bills, if Fire Ex-
posion occurs from any one of the Acetylene Gener
ators they authorize
And here's proof of their good judgment
Though there Two Million people using
Aceylene Light in America there have only been four
Fires from it in one year. against 1906 Fires from
Kerosene and Gasoline.
There have also been 1901 Fires from Electricity.
1907 Fires from City Gas, and $40 Fires from Candles
Besides these there have been e6 Fires from the
Suns rays, But.-only four Fires from Acetylene.
That shows how careful the Insurance Board was
in its examination of Acetylene Generators, and in
permitting" only the 70 makes that were dbove
Picion out of the 600 experiments that were
the market
Well,-the boom in Acetylene Lighting made Io,per
riees possible on the material it is derived FROM viz
Calcium Carbide, material that looks like Granite
but acts like Magic
Today, Aceblene Light is a full third cheaper than
Kerosene Light or Gasoline Light, per Candle Power
1t is not than half the price of Electric Light,
three foartts that of City Gas.
If can't progc these statements to your full salts
faction my name is not "Acetylene jones'"
But Acetyene is more than the safest and cheapest
1t is also the Wkfest LgIt-the nearest to natural
Sunlight in heath-giving Blue and Violet rays, and
the easiest of all Artificial Light on the Eyes
plants grow hours per day in dark cellars where
ray of Sunlight could reach them 1t made them grow
taUee fast similar plants that had only the Sum
light of daytime viz, half the time
That proven by Cornell University in three
months experiment made this very year.
Now, I've saved up for the last point more i'm
portant to you than all the others about Acetylene
Light.
1t consumes only ne-foarth as much of the vital
Oxygen from the Air of Living or bedrooms,
as either Kerosene or City Gas-Lght consumes.
That's tremendous difference in lifetime, mark
you-three-fourths of difference.
Because,-Oxygen is Life
And every biAof Oxygen stolen from the lungs of
Women, Children and Men, through Lighting, is a
loss that can never be made good again.
A "a Candle-Power Acetyene Light costs you only
taco-ffthS of a cent per hour
That's about $5.85 year, if burned every night
in the year for four steady hours.
Kerosene Lamp of equal capacity would cost you
third more viz: thrce-ffths of cent per hour for
Kerosene alone, or $875 per year.
That's exclusive of broken lamp chimneys, new
wicks, and the everlasting drudgery and danger of
cleaning, filling and trimming daily.
want to prove these figures to you Reader, if you
are HORSEPOWER storekeeper.
Tell me how many rooms you've got and I'll tell you
what it will cost light them with brilliant beautiful
Sanitary, eye-saving Acetylene
Write today for my Free Book about Sunlight
on Tap"
Just address me here
"Acetyene Jones'"
Adams ST.,
Chicago Ills