The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-10-20
To make Cheap Gas-light for
Country Homes

out extra charge, which used any one Of these 70
Acetylene Generators it 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 or not these 70 different makes of Acctylene
Generators were absolutely Safe to use. (.
Because, they have to pay the bills, il Fire or Ex-
plosion occurs, from any one of the Acetylene Gener-
ators they authorize. Z
And, here's a proof of their good judgment.
Though there are now Two Million people using
Acetylene Light. IN America, there have only been fo.y
Fires from It in one year, against 1905 Fires from
There have also been 4eor Fires from Electricity,
1907 Fires from City Gas, and $40 Fires from Candies.
Besides these there have been 26 Fires from the
That shows how careful the Insurance Board was
in its examination of Acetylene Generators, and in
permitting only the 70 makes that were obove sss-
bteson, out of the Goo experiments that were once on
the market. IL
.Well,-the boom in Acetylene Lighting made losye,
prices possible on the material it is derived from, viz,
Calcium Carbide, a material that looks like Granite
but acts like Magic.
Kerosene Light, or Gasoline Light, per Candle Power.
1t is not more than half the price of Electric Light,
nor thyee-fouyths that Of City Gas.
If l can't brove these statements to your full salts
faction my name is not "Acetylene Jones"
But Acetylene is more than the safest and cheapest
Light 1t s; OF , the , year w 1gGs; , : ;ett -. n.,r.s. - ,,,,,r,,
Sunlight in health-giving Blue and Violet rays, and
because of this. with its freedom from flicker, it is
the easiest OF all ArtlnC1aI Light on the Eyes.
It is so much like real Sunlight that it has made
plants grow "a hours per day in dark cellars where no
ray of Sunlight could reach them. 1t made them grow
taciee as fast as similar plants that had only the Sum
light of daytime, viz, half the time.
That was proven by Cornell University in a three
months experiment made this very year.
Now, I've saved up for the last a point more inn
portant to you than all the others about Acetylene
Light.
1t consumes only ~one-fonrth as much of the vital
Oxygen from the Air of Living rooms or bedrooms,
as either Kerosene or City Gas-Iight consumes.
That's a tremendous difference in a lifetime, mark
you-three-fo urths of a difference.
Because,-Osygen is Life.
And every bit of 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 Acetylene Light costs you only
t%zCo-ffths of a cent per hour.
That's about $585 per year, if burned every night
in the year for four steady hours.
A Kerosene Lamp of equal capacity would cost you
a third more, viz: Myee-ffths of a cent per hour fov
Kerosene alone, or $S.75 per year.
That's exclusive OF broken lamp chimneys, new
wicks, and the everlasting d~rudgery and danger of
cleaning, filling and trimming daily.
| want to trove these figures to you, Reader, if you
are a house-owner or storekeeper.
Tell me how many rooms you've got and I'll tell you
what it will cost to light them with brilliant, beautiful,
Sanitary, eye-saving Acetylene.
Write me today for my Free Book about Sunlight
on Tap"
"Acetylene Jones"
8 Adams St,
Chicago, Ills.