Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1918 — Still Another Way To Aid In Fuel Saving Movement [ARTICLE]

Still Another Way To Aid In Fuel Saving Movement

Tales of distress coming from the cold sections of the United States has ‘caused a Florida citizen to dig back in his memory for an old remedy to relieve the fuel situation. He says one should accumulate a number of clay or sand-lime bricks and immerse them in kerosene. When thoroughly saturated they should be placed in a stove and lighted, where they will burn for several hours. When they burn out all of the gerosene they will be at white heat. When they have cooled off they may be removed and other bricks, that have been soaking in keresone in the meanwhile, may be substituted. It is claimed for this old-new plan of securing heat that five gallons of oil used in this way will give greater heat than could be obtained from a load of fuel wood containing 26 cubic feet.