Book 3 — Economical Use of Wood Alcohol in Small Cooking Stove
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A couple eating breakfast and supper in their room used a chafing dish for cooking. A hard alcohol was used for fuel, and the expense seemed too high. So a fuel can was filled with pulverized asbestos pipe covering, and then saturated with wood alcohol. A quart of alcohol lasted about a month.—Charles A. King, Plymouth, N. H.