Caution to be used in Storing and Keeping the Preservative.
It is of the greatest importance that the Preservative be kept entirely
_free from mixture_ with any other substance, as, owing to the peculiar
combination of the chemicals used in the process of its manufacture, an
addition of even a small portion of any foreign substances, especially
any of the _Arsenical Solutions_ sometimes used for embalming purposes,
will completely change its character and destroy some of its most
valuable properties.
We call particular attention to this matter as we have more than once
traced up the cause for a complaint of the quality of some particular
shipment of the Preservative to the fact that the customer has had one
or more kinds of “_fluid_” on hand and in some careless moment has
emptied back some little left over, into the package containing our
Preservative to its very great injury. Even keeping the Preservative in
wood totally destroys its efficiency as an Embalming preparation and
therefore it should never under contingency be kept in wooden packages.
It should always be kept in the glass packages in which it is shipped,
or in some other glass vessel.
Every package that is sent out is exactly like every other package in
regard to the quality of the Preservative it contains, and its contents
will never deteriorate in any length of time it may be kept providing
that no other substance be added.
APPENDIX.
TO OUR CUSTOMERS:
We have appended to the foregoing treatise on Embalming some few of the
letters we are constantly receiving from our customers, giving their
unbiassed opinion of the merits of the Excelsior Preservative, entirely
unsolicited on our part and without the least idea of publication on the
part of the writers.
To such of our good friends and customers who find such an expression
from themselves printed in this book, we ask pardon for the publicity
given to their letters, trusting that the good company in which they
will find themselves, among the leading members of their profession,
will be our best excuse for the liberty we have ventured to take.
Want of space prevents us from printing but a very small portion of the
thousands of commendatory letters we have in our hands, and for the same
reason we print only such portions of the letters as will fairly give
the opinions of the writers thereof.
Respectfully yours,
CRANE & ALLEN.
Commendatory Letters and Extracts.
New York City, Jan. 21, 1886.
CRANE & ALLEN:
Please duplicate the last bill of your Preservative sent to us—56
gallons I think. It has given us great satisfaction.
STEPHEN MERRITT.
And again April 30, 1886.
CRANE & ALLEN:
Please send us as soon as possible one hundred gallons of your
Preservative. Let one carboy come by express at once. The Preservative
gives perfect satisfaction.
STEPHEN MERRITT.
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Newton, Kansas, Aug. 3, 1887.
CRANE & ALLEN:
If you will please to duplicate the invoice of May 11th. (13 gallons)
you may do so at your earliest convenience. We like the Preservative
very much and will use no other as long as we can get as good from you.
EDWARDS & CORLETT.
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Cortland, N. Y., March 9, 1887.
CRANE & ALLEN:
We have just commenced on the last two carboys you sent us. We listened
to outside parties and let them unload 20 gallons of “Fluid” upon us
that might answer for winter use. We have now done with experimenting
and hereafter you may count on our sticking to the “C. & A.”
Preservative.
EDGCOMB & BALLARD.
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Clinton, Mass., April 10, 1887.
CRANE & ALLEN:
We like your Preservative, knowing just what it will do, and have got
all over experimenting with other preparations. Will let you know in
ample season for another supply.
LUCIUS, FIELD & CO.
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St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 22, 1885.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I like your Preservative better than any other, as it removes
discoloration quicker and don’t stain clothing and I think it is much
better in every particular.
JOS. P. MURRELL,
1322 & 1324 Market St.
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Lowell, Mass., May 15, 1883.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I am well pleased with your Preservative, have got some other kinds
also, but I like yours best. I find some difficulty sometimes in using
fluid in place of ice, as some want ice anyway, but I have the best
success with the Preservative.
J. H. McDERMOTT.
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McLean, N. Y., Aug. 24, 1885.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I must say that your Preservative is the only Embalming fluid that
“fills the bill” in every respect.
A. A. McKEE.
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Rockford, Ill., May 31, 1985.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I have been using some other kinds for some time past, but I like your
Preservative much the best.
H. E. MARSH.
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Chicago, July 12, 1886.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I had a funeral yesterday in a family which had a funeral about a year
ago. They said the undertaker then used a preparation which was so
poisonous that a daughter of the deceased was laid up, confined to her
bed six weeks as a result, and has never fully recovered. This not from
having drank or tasted the chemical, but simply from having made the
applications of dampened clothes to the face, etc. They did not at first
know what was the matter, but the doctors found arsenic in the raisings
from the stomach, the result of inhalation and absorption. This
undertaker, by the way, does not use your Preservative.
S. C. POSTLEWAIT.
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Ottawa, Ill., Sept. 22, 1887.
CRANE & ALLEN:
We are not in need of fluid just now, but when we are will send you an
order. We consider your Preservative the best Fluid in the market.
PETER RUSSELL & SON.
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Warsaw, N. Y., June 11, 1884.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I have been using other preparations, and having been in former years a
druggist, have made and used largely my own preparations for embalming,
but there are many things about your Preservative I like better than
others used, and I intend to keep it in stock and use it.
A. B. LAWRENCE.
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Coatesville, Pa., April 10, 1883.
CRANE & ALLEN:
Refill and return carboy with your Preservative at once. It is the best
embalming preparation that I ever used, and I feel safer with it than
anything else of the kind.
E. S. LANDIS.
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Lake City, Minn., June 30, 1885.
CRANE & ALLEN
Enclosed is draft on Chicago for amount of your bill. We have tried your
Preservative and like it very much.
LAKE CITY FURNITURE CO.
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Marengo, Ills., May 3, 1887.
CRANE & ALLEN:
What I have used of the Preservative has given the best of satisfaction.
I do not think I shall need any more very soon, but I shall order of
you, as I think it cannot be beat.
GEO. E. DIGGINS.
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Charlestown District, }
Boston, Mass., Nov. 15, 1886. }
CRANE & ALLEN:
I am very much pleased with the Preservative, and it has not only done
its work well on ordinary cases, but on very difficult ones in the
severest of hot weather.
CHARLES L. PERRY.
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Nebraska City, Neb., March 24, 1887.
CRANE & ALLEN:
Send five gallons of the Preservative. Am offered Fluid very cheap, but
prefer the Preservative, as I am always sure of getting a good article.
I just had a case where I restored the color from black to marble white
with it.
C. N. KARSTENS.
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Wellston, O., March 3, 1887.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I am glad to say that your Preservative has never failed to do its work
yet. I have been using it for nearly five years and in some very bad
cases.
C. M. RICHARDS.
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GREENFIELD, Mass., Sept. 12, 1883.
CRANE & ALLEN:
Your Preservative gives full satisfaction. I enclose draft for last
bill.
J. L. LYONS.
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Reading, Penn., April 5, 1886.
CRANE & ALLEN:
The people in this locality are prejudiced against embalming and I have
had hard work to introduce it, but they begin to see it now differently.
As an illustration, I will give you a case I had last season: A lady
died and some of the family were in Florida, and they wished the body
kept until their return. I embalmed the body with your Preservative and
after it had laid in the house a week the neighbors began to make a
fuss, and threatened to complain to the Board of Health, and annoyed the
family so that they requested me to remove the body to my house; I did
so, keeping it in the casket and kept it two weeks longer. When the
friends arrived the body was shipped then 150 miles and buried, and it
was in much better condition when buried than the day she died—no smell
or signs of decay whatever.
E. S. MILLER.
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Chicago, July 16, 1884.
CRANE & ALLEN:
Enclosed is money order for last bill of your Preservative. I am well
satisfied with it and shall order more in a week or two.
OSCAR MEISTER,
845 Milwaukee Avenue.
And again, Dec. 12, 1885:
CRANE & ALLEN:
Although I can buy Fluid here for less than your Preservative, I would
rather give you more for yours.
OSCAR MEISTER.
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Sandwich, Ill., May 4, 1887.
CRANE & ALLEN:
Enclosed find draft for $36.00 for bill of Sept. 7, ’86, and send us at
once 12 gallons of Preservative. We are well pleased with it.
J. BUCKHART & SON.
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Hope, Ind., Sept. 26, 1885.
CRANE & ALLEN:
We have given the Preservative a fair trial and have found it to surpass
any fluid that we have ever purchased. Please fill demijohn and return
to us.
COHEE & SPAUGH.
And again, Jan. 16, 1886:
CRANE & ALLEN:
Please send us six gallons more of the Preservative. It is the best
Fluid we can get.
COHEE & SPAUGH.
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Natchez, Miss., July 14, 1887.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I have used your Preservative with great success and it has a grand
reputation here. In one case I was not called upon to embalm until 48
hours after death, and the face and neck was black, yet it was kept five
days in July and every one wanted to know how I managed to keep the body
so well.
R. H. STEWART.
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Gilman, Ill., Feb. 4, 1885.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I acknowledge the receipt of the demijohn of the Preservative, and
should have ordered sooner, but last spring I bought out an Undertaker’s
stock in Onarga with a quantity of “Embalming Fluid,” which supplied me
for a time, but I like yours the best of any that I have used and shall
in the future depend upon yours altogether when I can get it.
W. P. GARDNER.
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Trenton, N. J., Aug. 9, 1887.
CRANE & ALLEN:
Ship 20 gallons of Preservative by freight. I shall use more of it
hereafter as I most assuredly like it.
BENJ. L. DISBROW.
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NOTE.—The three following letters from N. Greenlund, of Warren, Pa.,
should be read in connection with each other:
Warren, Pa., July 23, 1887.
CRANE & ALLEN:
Enclosed please find check for $15.00, for last bill. You need not send
any at present. Have no fault to find with your Preservative, has given
good satisfaction, but have got some now that seems to do the work and
for less money.
N. GREENLUND.
And again on August 28, 1887.
CRANE & ALLEN:
Having lately been induced to buy some “Fluid” for less money than yours
with guarantee “to be as good as yours”—maybe it is, but it does not
give me the same satisfaction, therefore please send me a demijohn of
the Excelsior Preservative and oblige,
N. GREENLUND.
And again on Sept. 12, 1887.
CRANE & ALLEN:
Your Preservative is received and commenced to use it, and will say in
the language of some other undertaker’s when in convention some time
since: “It is hard to keep house without Crane & Allen’s Fluid.”
N. GREENLUND.
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Ripon, Wis., Aug. 21, 1883.
CRANE & ALLEN:
We enclose draft for am’t of last bill. We think your Preservative after
a test of five years that we have given it, the best that we have ever
used. It never fails to do the work.
DELANO & COOLEY.
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McKenzie, Tenn., June 12, 1883.
CRANE & ALLEN:
Your Preservative is all you claim it to be, and I am satisfied it will
do all you claim for it, and that it will do to rely upon for Embalming.
E. DINNING.
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Middlebury, Vt., May 20, 1887.
CRANE & ALLEN:
We are still using the Preservative entirely and are very much pleased
with it indeed and consider it perfect. We had a very hard case in a
town 10 miles from here, of a man who died in almost perfect health,
very fleshy, weight over 400 lbs. We were not called until he had been
dead 12 hours and then we found him improperly laid out, but in spite of
it all, we kept him a week by the use of the Preservative, and had a
very large funeral (he being a very prominent man). The casket stood
open and every one said it was the most life-like corpse they ever saw.
BREWSTER & CO.
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West Chester, O., Dec. 19, 1887.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I wish to thank you for the Preservative, as it has done all and more
than you claimed for it. Our doctor used some of it and says he never
saw anything to equal it for blood poisoning. Enclosed $15.00; give me
credit for it.
F. M. LONG.
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Westfield, N. Y., Jan. 20, 1886.
CRANE & ALLEN:
Enclosed find draft for your bill. I have not used all of the
Preservative yet, but have used many kinds and have no hesitation in
saying that yours is the best. Shall use no other in future.
SAM’L. C. CRANDELL.
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Bryan, Ohio, May 26, 1887.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I have great faith in your Preservative and will always guarantee that I
can hold a body in good shape by the use of it.
A. C. DILLMAN.
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Oregon, Wis., Oct. 28, 1887.
CRANE & ALLEN:
We have now used your Preservative so long that we are satisfied. We
have had such good results from it that it is best to continue its use.
It is a great advantage to the Undertaker where the body is to be kept
an exceedingly long time, to have something to rely upon, and we have
always had good success with the Preservative.
LINDSAY & WACKMAN.
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West Milton, O., May 25, 1883.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I had a good chance to test your Preservative. A woman died in another
Undertaker’s territory, seven miles from here, and was put into an ice
box with 250 or 300 lbs. of ice, and with all that the body got black
and swollen, and people became alarmed and wanted to bury her at once,
but the friends objected and sent for me. I took her out of the ice box,
let off the gas and used your Preservative, and at the funeral she
looked as natural as life. I could refer you to several other cases, but
I suppose it is not necessary.
JACOB MILLER.
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Cairo, Ills., Oct. 29, 1885.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I was not out when I wrote to you for the price in large quantities. Am
using it a good deal and think it can’t be beat.
N. FEITH.
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Cortland, N. Y., Sept. 4, 1883.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I have begun to use your Preservative and think it is better than
anything I have ever used. I had on hand 10 gallons of another kind when
yours came, which is the reason why I had not used yours before. You
will hear from me again soon.
R. B. FLETCHER.
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Pottstown, Penn., May 20, 1884.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I send two empties, which you can fill with your Preservative and return
to me. I have used no ice since using the Preservative, and have kept
all kind of cases good.
JAMES M. FILLMEN.
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Austin, Minn., Jan. 11, 1883.
CRANE & ALLEN:
We have bought “Fluid” from other parties lately, as Mr. Fernald was
away and I did not know at first where to order. Mr. F. has since spoken
very highly of your Preservative, and we will give you the next order.
FERNALD & CO.
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Moundsville, W. Va., Nov. 9, 1887.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I like your Preservative very well. It does the work well, and I have
given it a pretty good trial and am well satisfied that it is all you
claim it to be.
D. L. LOGAN.
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Freeport, Ills., Mar. 31, 1887.
CRANE & ALLEN:
We are well pleased with the Preservative, and you can refer any of your
customers to us.
D. KUEHNER.
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Montpelier, Oct. 27, 1883.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I would as soon be without coffins as to be without your Preservative. I
have tried a number of kinds, but none equals yours.
N. G. LASH.
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Mt. Sterling, Ky., May 4, 1887.
CRANE & ALLEN:
Your Preservative has given satisfaction, and we will send you an order
for more this season.
JNO. LINDSEY & SON.
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Fargo, Dakota, Dec. 12, 1883.
CRANE & ALLEN:
Your Preservative is the best thing of the kind we have ever used.
LUGER FURNITURE CO.
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Plainfield, Ind., Jan. 24, 1887.
CRANE & ALLEN:
You will find enclosed draft for $21.00. Am not entirely out, but you
may send me another carboy of the Preservative. I had a case last summer
that proved the excellency of your fluid. The man died of lung fever and
heart disease combined, and in about five or six hours after death he
turned purple all over the body, not unlike a flesh blood-blister. I
injected about half of a gallon of the Preservative into the Brachial
Artery, and in less than 24 hours the discoloration had disappeared, and
at the day of the funeral some of the friends wanted to put it off on
account of his life-like appearance.
SEBASTIAN HISS.
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Mt. Blanchard, O., June 2, 1887.
CRANE & ALLEN:
We have never had a failure in the use of your Preservative, and have
had a good many bad cases to handle. We kept one subject with it from
Oct. 29th to the 1st of April following.
J. W. PICKETT & CO.
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Webster City, Iowa, Aug. 17, 1885.
CRANE & ALLEN:
Enclosed find draft for bill. Your Preservative is first-class; none
better in the world.
J. W. ALLINGTON.
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Joliet, Ills., May 22, 1884.
CRANE & ALLEN:
We return pkges. for refilling with the Preservative. We can buy what
are considered “standard makes of Fluid” for about one-third less, but
we have given yours the preference, as its workings have been so very
satisfactory.
S. S. CHAMBERLIN & SON.
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Hamilton, Ohio, Oct. 24, 1884.
CRANE & ALLEN:
Please send us carboy of your Preservative right away, as we like it
very well.
J. CROWLEY & SON.
And again, July 1, 1885:—
CRANE & ALLEN:
The Preservative is giving us perfect satisfaction.
J. CROWLEY & SON.
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Edgerton, Wis., June 1, 1885.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I shall use no other kind of Embalming Fluid but yours, as it gives the
best of satisfaction.
W. H. CLARKE.
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Frankfort, Ind., April 25, 1885.
CRANE & ALLEN:
We are very much pleased with the Preservative, and we give you an order
for ten gallons of it, which please ship at once.
COMLEY & BIRD.
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Galesburg, Mich., Feb. 3, 1883.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I have had a good opportunity to find out what fluid would stand the
weather lately. I had some of two kinds, of what is called “Standard”
makes of fluid by the side of some of your Preservative and all in
bottles, and all froze and broke the bottles but Crane & Allen’s, and
that did not. I shall use only yours hereafter.
HENRY LABBITT.
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East Liverpool, Ohio, Aug. 25, 1884.
CRANE & ALLEN:
Your Preservative is the best I ever used. I tell you I have done some
nice work with it. Will use no other if I can get yours.
J. W. ALBRIGHT.
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Chicago, June 25, 1887.
CRANE & ALLEN:
Enclosed please find New York draft to apply on account. We think your
Preservative is the best we have ever used.
FRED H. RUSS & CO.
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Baltimore, Md., Jan. 26, 1885.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I like your Preservative and have recommended it to other Undertakers in
this city. It will never fail any one using it right, and it will take
the lead if you keep it up to the present standard.
JOHN LAKE.
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Jamestown, N. Y., Dec. 30, 1885.
CRANE & ALLEN:
Enclosed find check ($74.70) in settlement of account to date as per
statement, and you may duplicate the last shipment. We do not hesitate
to say that we are more than pleased with your Preservative, and it
gives better satisfaction than any we ever used of any other make.
PARTRIDGE & VANDUSEN.
And again, on Feb. 11, 1886:—
CRANE & ALLEN:
We are more than pleased with the results from the use of your
Preservative, and wonder why so many use other preparations that we have
tried and know do not equal yours.
PARTRIDGE & VANDUSEN.
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Coal Center, Pa., May 29, 1883.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I have been offered “Fluid” that is called good for less than yours
cost, but I have tried already several kinds of such and none give
satisfaction equal to yours, the coldest weather last winter had no
effect on it.
GEO. J. LONG.
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Eau Claire, Wis., Oct. 19, 1885.
CRANE & ALLEN:
Send me a carboy of the Excelsior Preservative. It is the best I ever
used and is just splendid.
J. A. LAWLER.
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Circleville, Ohio, Aug. 20, 1886.
CRANE & ALLEN:
We think a great deal of your Preservative and have had splendid success
with it, in fact we have “been raised on” Crane & Allen’s Preservative.
ALBAUGH & LANUM.
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Hudson, Wis., Aug. 18, 1884.
CRANE & ALLEN:
We lately had a case that we considered a test of your Preservative. It
was a case of death by accident, body mutilated. We shipped it and it
arrived in good condition. We like the Preservative better every time we
use it.
T. BEARD & CO.
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Chebanse, Ill., Sept. 21, 1885.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I have had some severe cases lately. One a lady who died of an abdominal
tumor from which over a wooden pail full of fetid matter was taken; the
body was badly swollen and very offensive, the whole house tainted. At
the time of the funeral the rooms and the body were perfectly sweet.
Another case of a man killed by lightning, and it took four hours to
work off the gasses and do the work; and another case of a child which
was kept a week during the hottest weather of last month (August). I am
very well pleased with the results from using your Preservative in all
of the above cases and will order more of it.
S. S. BAKER.
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Streator, Ill., Nov. 7, 1883.
CRANE & ALLEN:
The Preservative is working splendidly.
H. F. HOWLAND.
And again June 8, 1887.
CRANE & ALLEN:
Your Preservative is a No. 1. article and I have given it some extra
good tests.
H. F. HOWLAND.
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Dansville, N. Y., Oct. 16, 1883.
CRANE & ALLEN:
The Preservative works to perfection and I believe I could keep a body
as long as I had a mind to with it.
GEO. R. HURLBURT.
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Groton, N. Y., June 12, 1884.
CRANE & ALLEN:
Your Preservative is all right, and we shall want more of it. We have
used others some of the time, but yours does the best work.
J. I. BOOTH & SON.
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Jamesport, Mo., Dec. 26, 1884.
CRANE & ALLEN:
Please send me another shipment of your Preservative. I could not do
without it now, as I find it superior to anything I have seen.
A. B. BUREN.
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Oskaloosa, Iowa, Oct. 15, 1887.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I dare not use some of the “fluids,” once having lost four finger nails
in using one kind, and others harden the skin and benumbs the fingers so
that the touch is not as delicate as desired. I will now stick by your
Preservative as it is just as nice for the undertakers hands as can be,
softens and cleanses so nicely that it is a pleasure to use it and it
has never failed us in embalming. I like it again from the fact that
when a gallon of it is injected into the arteries the face and other
surfaces are whitened which others I have tried does not do, therefore
the friends can better see the effect of your work.
J. B. McCURDY.
And again on June 14, 1887.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I ordered 10 gallons of “fluid” because the party of whom I ordered was
such a nice “demonstrator” and although I gave my hands only one light
wash of it; it was bidding fair to be as bad for them as ever any of the
“fluids” were, and I will use it up with gloves, but gentlemen, I find
on account of my hands and the satisfaction that the C. & A.
Preservative gives me, that I will have no other, when through with the
10 gallons referred to.
J. B. McCURDY.
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Thomaston, Conn., Jan. 14, 1884.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I shall want more of your Preservative on the approach of warm weather
as I like it very much, shall not need any before April or May.
R. T. ANDREWS.
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Lisbon, Iowa, Aug. 8, 1884.
CRANE & ALLEN:
Please send another pkge. of the Preservative. Am not quite out and
don’t want to be. It does just what you claim for it, and is the best
preparation I ever used.
H. BUCHER.
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DuBois, Penn., Feb. 10, 1887.
CRANE & ALLEN:
Your Preservative has given splendid satisfaction and I have had the
best kind of success with it, and I have no trouble in keeping a body
any length of time with it.
A. L. HOY.
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Canaseraga, N. Y., Aug. 10, 1886.
CRANE & ALLEN:
Send some more of the Preservative to me at this place, where I have
removed to from Dansville. Your Preservative works like a charm.
GEO. R. HURLBURT.
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Janesville, Wis., Sept. 19, 1884.
CRANE & ALLEN:
The instruments are received, and are just what we wanted and are even
nicer than I expected. I can assure you that no other “Fluid” but Crane
& Allen’s Preservative will ever fill an artery that they open while I
handle them. We like the Preservative very much.
JANESVILLE FURNITURE CO.
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Wheeling, West Va., March 14, 1883.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I have sold out my undertaking business, but I shall take pleasure in
recommending your Preservative to anyone, as I know what it is, and you
may refer anyone to me if you want to.
ROBERT LUKE.
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Gloucester, Mass., Aug. 22, 1883.
CRANE & ALLEN:
An Undertaker came over to see me from Newburyport yesterday, to
ascertain how I managed to keep bodies so nice that were under my care.
He being an Undertaker of some note, I took some pride in letting him
see me embalm a body with your Preservative, and he was so well pleased
that he will order some of you at once.
JOHN LLOYD.
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Wooster, Ohio, Oct. 26, 1883.
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CRANE & ALLEN:
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Bonaparte, Iowa, Dec. 14, 1885.
CRANE & ALLEN:
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Lexington, Ky., Oct. 12, 1893.
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Greenfield, Ind., Aug. 5, 1885.
CRANE & ALLEN:
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I. M. PRICE.
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G. W. CHURCHILL & SON.
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Salem, Mass., Aug. 1, 1883.
CRANE & ALLEN:
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WM. H. CHANDLER.
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CRANE & ALLEN:
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CRANE & ALLEN:
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CRANE & ALLEN:
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CRANE & ALLEN:
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CRANE & ALLEN:
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New Hampton, Iowa, Aug. 8, 1884.
CRANE & ALLEN:
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A. McDONNELL.
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Quincy, Ohio, Sept. 24, 1884.
CRANE & ALLEN:
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MEANS & LEACH.
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Winchenden, Mass., June 23, 1884.
CRANE & ALLEN:
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N. C. MATTHEWS.
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New Martinsburg, O., Jan. 21, 1884.
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Mineral Point, Wis., July 11, 1887.
CRANE & ALLEN:
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A. F. BISHOP.
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Grand Haven, Mich., Aug. 13, 1883.
CRANE & ALLEN:
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CRANE & ALLEN:
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JAMES BARNES.
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Philadelphia, Jan. 24, 1883.
CRANE & ALLEN:
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JOHN C. RULON.
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Memphis, Tenn., April 25, 1886.
CRANE & ALLEN:
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ROB’T H. JONES,
_Embalmer for J. F. Holst & Bro._
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Coopersburg, Pa., Oct. 23, 1883.
CRANE & ALLEN:
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JOEL RITTER.
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Rochester, Mich., Sept. 19, 1883.
CRANE & ALLEN:
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W. HARVEY GREENE.
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St. Thomas, Ontario, Sept, 9, 1884.
CRANE & ALLEN:
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SAMUEL GOODWIN.
And again, on Feb. 20, 1885:
CRANE & ALLEN:
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SAMUEL GOODWIN.
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Baraboo, Wis., Jan. 11, 1884.
CRANE & ALLEN:
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CRANE & ALLEN:
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C. BACON.
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Cincinnati, Ohio, Jan. 15, 1882.
CRANE & ALLEN:
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F. W. GERSTLE & SON.
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CRANE & ALLEN:
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J. M. GENTRY.
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Hulmeville, Penn., July 20, 1885.
CRANE & ALLEN:
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L. P. TOWNSEND.
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Atchison, Kansas, Aug. 14, 1883.
CRANE & ALLEN:
Enclosed please find draft to cover last bill. The Preservative has
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J. A. HARROUFF.
And again, Dec. 31, 1886:
CRANE & ALLEN:
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J. A. HARROUFF.
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Corning, N. Y., April 16, 1883.
CRANE & ALLEN:
Please express me a medium size package of the Preservative. I can’t get
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J. W. DARRIN.
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Wilton Junction, Iowa, May 25, 1883.
CRANE & ALLEN:
We like your Preservative very much, and as soon as we get nearly out of
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JACOBY & RYERSON.
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Kenosha, Wis., July 18, 1887.
CRANE & ALLEN:
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HANSEN & HUCK.
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Rockville, Ind., Feb. 22, 1886.
CRANE & ALLEN:
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HARGRAVE BROS.
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Alma, Neb., Aug. 16, 1887.
CRANE & ALLEN:
You can ship me six or eight gallons of the Preservative at once. I
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J. M. DAVIS.
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Meadville, Penn., March 3, 1886.
CRANE & ALLEN:
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L. D. DUNN.
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Gettysburg, O., June 13, 1887.
CRANE & ALLEN:
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HERSHEY BROS.
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Danville, Ky., Feb. 16, 1886.
CRANE & ALLEN:
We still have some of the Preservative left, as the art of embalming is
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DUNLAP & McGOODWIN.
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Burlington, Vt., Jan. 11, 1884.
CRANE & ALLEN:
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M. W. HOSMER.
And again, Dec. 14, 1885:
CRANE & ALLEN:
I have sold out to C. F. Brown and have recommended him to use your
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M. W. HOSMER.
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Shawnee, Ohio, Aug. 21, 1885.
CRANE & ALLEN:
Your Preservative is certainly everything that it is recommended to be.
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Va.—weather very warm and rainy. Disinterested parties reported to us
that the body was as natural as life when buried.
HUDSON & TIPPETT.
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Seymour, Conn., Aug. 17, 1883.
CRANE & ALLEN:
Please send me ten gallons of Preservative, such as I had before. If as
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E. F. BASSETT.
And again, on Sept. 28, 1885:
CRANE & ALLEN:
The Preservative still continues to give perfect satisfaction in all
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E. F. BASSETT.
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Liberty Centre, O., Aug. 9, 1887.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I can say that I have had better success with your Preservative than
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N. C. WRIGHT.
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Willoughby, O., Feb. 9, 1885.
CRANE & ALLEN:
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GEO. E. MANVILLE.
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Oconto, Wis., Sept. 14, 1885.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I had a case in July last of a young lady whom I embalmed with your
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Milwaukee _Sentinel_ of July 25th is in regard to the appearance of the
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“On Wednesday last, a young lady died suddenly at Oconto, and her
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thing, however, is that the remains were not buried on the day of the
funeral. Although apparently dead, the usual evidences of dissolution
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before her death exacted a promise from her mother that she should not
be buried until she was satisfied she was really dead. The remains will
not be interred until her death is established beyond all question of
dispute.”
It seems they were not satisfied that she was dead until the seventh day
afterwards. There could have been no question, however, of her death, as
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N. B. MITCHELL.
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Hastings, Neb., March 21, 1887.
CRANE & ALLEN:
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COX & REED.
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Mancelona, Mich., Nov, 19, 1887.
CRANE & ALLEN:
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CHAS. BECHSTEIN & CO.
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Pecatonica, Ills., April 28, 1885.
CRANE & ALLEN:
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ATKINSON BRO’S.
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Clarinda, Iowa, March 19, 1886.
CRANE & ALLEN:
Send two carboys of the Preservative. I like it; have done some good
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A. T. CLEMENT.
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Chillicothe, Ills., Sept. 17, 1883.
CRANE & ALLEN:
We received last month from you the package of the Preservative, and
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had got posted from your Manual by reading it over. The doctors said
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M. H. BAILEY & CO.
And again, Dec. 17, 1883:
CRANE & ALLEN:
Please find enclosed draft to balance account. When we have used the
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M. H. BAILEY & CO.
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Wakeman, Ohio, Feb. 16, 1887.
CRANE & ALLEN:
We have about half of the last shipment of the Preservative, but you can
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PEASE & BRIGHT.
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Birmingham, Ohio, Aug. 18, 1884.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I am very much pleased with your Excelsior Preservative. When I need any
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S. E. BAUDER.
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Bloomsburg, Penn., Feb. 13, 1883.
CRANE & ALLEN:
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W. J. CORELL & CO.
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Republic, Ohio, Dec. 18, 1885.
CRANE & ALLEN:
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R. CHAMBERLIN.
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Staunton, Ills., July 9, 1887.
CRANE & ALLEN:
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H. HACKMAN.
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Clarksville, Tenn., Dec. 29, 1886.
CRANE & ALLEN:
The package of Preservative I had is just empty. Is the price the same
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JNO. F. COUTS.
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Carlisle, Ky., Sept. 15, 1883.
CRANE & ALLEN:
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Office of the Morgue, }
St. Louis, Mo., June 7, 1883. }
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[TELEGRAM.]
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NOEL & ARTHUR.
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