The Tucumcari news. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-11-25
TO make Cheap Gas-light for
Country Homes

out extra charge, which used any ore 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 Acetylene
Generators were absolutely Safe to use.
Because, fhcy have to pay the bills, il Fire or Ex-
ploSion, occurs, from any one OF the Acetylene Gener-
ators they authorize.
Though there arc now Two Million people using
Acetylene Light in America, there have only been four
Fires from it in one year, against 1905 Fires from
There have also been 46ot Fires from Electricity,
1907 Fires from City Gas, and $40 Fires from Candles.
Besides these there have been 80 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 above sus-
tie'on, out of the GOO experiments that were once on
the market.
Well,-the boom in Acetylenc Lighting made louer
Prices possible on the material it is derived from, viz,
Calcium Carbide, a material that looks like Granite
but acts like Magic. K.
Kerosene Light, or Gasoline Light, per Candle Power.
1t is not more than half the price of Electric Light,
nor thrce-fonrthS that of City Gas.
If | can't brogc these statements 10 your full salts
faction my name IS not "Acetylene Jones"
But Acetylene is more than the safest and cheapest
Light of the year 1905.
1t is also the Whiiest Light-the nearest to natural
Sunlight in health giving Blue and Violet rays, and
because of this; with its freedom from flicker, it is
n easiest OF all HrtlHClal llSnt o the Eyes.
1t 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
'1pice as fast as similar plants that had only the Sun
light of daytime, viz, half the time.
That was proven by Cornell University in a three.
months experiment made this very year.
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Now, I've saved up for the last a point more i'm
portant to you than all the others about Acetylene
Light.
It consumes only one fourth as much of the vital
Oxygen from the Air Of Living rooms or bedrooms,
as either Kerosene or City Gas-Light consumes.
That's a tremendous difference in a lifetime, mark
you-three-fourth of a difference.
Because,-OEygen 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
tsro-ffthS of a cent per hour.
That's about $585 per year, il burned every night
in the year for four steady hours.
A Kerosene Lamp of equal capacity would cost you
a third more, viz. hrec-ffthS of a cent per hour for
Kerosene alone, or $S.75 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 tropr these figures to you, Reader, if you
are a HORSEPOWER or storekeeper.
Tell me how many rooms you've got and III 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"
Just address me here as
"Acetylene Jones'"
8 Adams St,
Chicago, Ills.