Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1909 — THE DEADLY GASOLINE CAN. [ARTICLE]

THE DEADLY GASOLINE CAN.

The mother who permits young girls to use the oil can to build fires may have a life regret because of it, as many a girl has been burned to death. Another more dangerous operation is the filling of gasoline stoves. Mothers should attend to such duties unless a daughter of matured years is accustomed to do it. Gasoline is dangerous when its vapor gets about a room and this is the time of year when fatalities begin to be reported. “Familiarity breeds contempt” is only too true in the handling of gasoline and one must ever have it in mind that death lurks in the shadow of the gasoline can.