Automatic blue flame cooker

Pan-American Exposition (1901:Buffalo)

There a picture of a primitive oil stove on the advertisement, with the following text: The New Pet of the Household. Automatic Blue Flame. No. 2 Junior Automatic. Height, 16 inches. Top, 14 x 34 inches. The Most Perfect Oil Stove Made. Having two powerful, Wickless, Blue Flame Burners, each operated by a simple device. Flame regulated by raising and lowering the burner. Valveless--no clogging--no overflow--no soot--no odor--no danger. Enamel finish with nickel, brass and bronze trimmings. Absolutely the safest, most economical and simplest oil stove ever made. Three styles-eleven sizes. Automatic Blue Flame Cooker. Sold by dealers or shipped direct by: Central Oil and Gas Stove Company

210 School St., Gardner, Mass., U.S.A. Manufacturers of over two hundred styles of Oil Cooking Stoves. Catalogue free. Special Offer. The price of out two-burner Cooker is $7.50. We know that one stove sold will sell others, therefore we offer to send the Automatic Blue Flame, like cut, to the first two purchasers in a town or city, mentioning this advertisement, where we have no agent, for $.5.25, freight paid to any point east of the Mississippi. In consideration of this special factory price, we merely request that you show the stove to three of your neighbors, or send five names and addresses, when ordering, of friends who do not possess one of these famous Cookers. This offer not good after April 15th. See that you are one of the two to get this special price.

Ladies Home Journal (April 1898) p.37.
Digitized microfilm photocopy

1898-04

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Clippings, Promotional materials

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Central Oil and Gas Stove Company

Illuminations: Revisiting the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition of 1901