Chapter XIX: Appendix: To Our Customers (1)
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.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I have used other Fluids in the same way as yours, and for arterial embalming I prefer your Preservative. Have used about 30 gallons since June last.
D. Y. LANDIS.
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Fair Haven, May 21, 1885.
CRANE & ALLEN:
Send me a pkge. of the Preservative. I can buy “Fluids” cheaper, but I know yours is good and don’t want to take chances on something that might go back on me.
GEO. C. LYON.
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Wadsworth, O., Jan. 18, 1884.
CRANE & ALLEN:
We had considerable of other Fluids on hand when we got your Preservative, and have some yet. We like yours the best, and won’t use any other after this.
KREMER & OPLINGER.
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Wheaton, Ills., Aug. 29, 1883.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I return carboy, which please fill with the Preservative and return to me. It has given first-class satisfaction and I am well pleased with it.
CONRAD KAMPP.
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Malvern, Ohio, June 23, 1886.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I have not had occasion to open the last pkge. of the Preservative, as there is but little embalming to do here just now, unless I should attempt to preserve the earth, which I think your Preservative would do.
GEO. DECKMAN.
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Binghamton, N. Y., June 5, 1884.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I have sold out my business to D. G. Mulford & Co., and have urged them to use your Preservative as being the best there is. They think it is rather expensive, but I tell them that it is cheaper than any, considering the work it will do. You write them, and I think they will try it.
J. S. FREAR.
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Bonaparte, Iowa, Dec. 14, 1885.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I have been using your Preservative for some time, and prefer it to any other kind of Embalming Fluid. It gives perfect satisfaction.
GEO. A. DEMPLE.
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Morris, Ills., June 20, 1885.
CRANE & ALLEN:
We have been trying other kinds of “Fluid” lately, but find your Preservative to be the best. We have thoroughly demonstrated that the Preservative will give better satisfaction in all cases than any kind yet made.
DAVIS BROS.
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Mt. Vernon, O., Aug. 27, 1886.
CRANE & ALLEN:
We have decided never to use any “Fluid” but yours. It is the best we ever saw. About a month ago we gave it a good test, and kept a man who died very sudden—weighed 225 lbs. We kept him five days in his parlor, and he looked better than he did the day he died. We then placed him in the vault and ten days afterwards we took his wife and family to see him, and he looked as well as ever. It was the largest funeral we have had in 20 years, in this city. We now know just what to count upon to keep a corpse, and that is Crane & Allen’s Preservative.
J. H. McCORMICK & SON.
And again, Jan. 4, 1888:
CRANE & ALLEN:
We enter the New Year without any of your Preservative, and as we feel as though we could not prosper in our business without it, please send us ten gallons. We have a little cheap stuff that was forced upon us, which we might get along with if it keeps cold, but you may send us ten gallons of the Preservative.
J. H. McCORMICK & SON.
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Northfield, Vt., Feb. 6, 1884.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I must say of your Preservative that it is the best for removing discoloration that I have ever used, and the best for deodorizing a room. You may send me another carboy of it if you please.
J. L. ABBOTT.
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Hartford, Conn., Jan. 12, 1882.
CRANE & ALLEN:
Your Preservative is first-class and we like it very much, and as soon as we want to buy any more Fluid we will send you an order.
KENNEY & DILLON.
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Covington, Ky., May 10, 1886.
CRANE & ALLEN:
Send me about 15 gallons of the Preservative and don’t delay as I am out and don’t want to use any other.
CHAS. DONNELLY & CO.
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Marengo, Ills., Sept. 9, 1886.
CRANE & ALLEN:
Enclosed draft to balance account. I have sold out to Geo. E. Diggins, who will return pkgs. with an order. I could give you a strong recommend, not only from myself but from J. W. Caseby, Undertaker for many years. The last job he had without your Preservative has convinced us of the great merits of it over others.
J. T. BELDEN.
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Bryan, Ohio, June 5, 1885.
CRANE & ALLEN:
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A. C. DILLMAN.
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Lexington, Ky., Oct. 12, 1893.
CRANE & ALLEN:
When at our convention in Cincinnati, in June, the representatives of one of the so-called “Standard Fluids” wanted me to take a gallon of it free, on trial, but I am satisfied with your Preservative.
T. J. DANAHY.
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Anamosa, Iowa, March 31, 1886.
CRANE & ALLEN:
We enclose draft which you can give us credit for. Would say that your Preservative is the stuff to tie to.
DUNKLEE & EASTERLY.
And again, March 26, 1887:
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DUNKLEE & EASTERLY.
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Philadelphia, April 14, 1886.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I still have some of your Preservative on hand but had it not been for some so-called first-class funeral directors using very inferior preparations (presumably because cheaper) and thereby losing their cases and thus putting a temporary “black eye” on embalming, I would have used that all up and considerable more. You may rest assured that when I want anything of the kind I will order of you.
GEO. CHANDLER PAUL.
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Greenfield, Ind., Aug. 5, 1885.
CRANE & ALLEN:
Your Excelsior Preservative is the best embalming fluid in America. It has always done just what we wanted it to do.
J. P. JAMES & CO.
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Salem, Ohio., July 7, 1886.
CRANE & ALLEN:
While other parties are offering “fluids” at a much reduced price, we do not want to buy elsewhere as long as you still continue to furnish us as good a fluid as your Preservative has proved to be, as it has never failed to do just what a fluid should do.
R. & W. M. HOLE.
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Sunbury, Ohio., June 21, 1883.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I have some of your Preservative yet and we do not use very much at this time of the year. I do not use it in all cases as I have some that cost much less which I use some, but when I have a bad case on hand I always use the Excelsior Preservative, and I can recommend it to the profession as always giving satisfactory results.
I. M. PRICE.
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Braidwood, Ill., Nov. 14, 1883.
CRANE & ALLEN:
The Preservative you send us has given good satisfaction and we are well pleased with it. It has done all you claim for it and we shall continue to handle it in preference to all others as it is a pleasure to use something you can depend upon and that is the Crane & Allen Preservative.
A. & J. W. PATTERSON.
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Denver, Nov. 10, 1886.
CRANE & ALLEN:
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E. & L. GUSTIN.
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Chicago, Ill., March 5, 1886.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I am more than satisfied with the C. & A. Preservative and shall continue to use it.
F. CHAFFEE.
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Eaton, O., April 14, 1887.
CRANE & ALLEN:
Please send us a package of the Preservative and oblige, as we are out of it. Have been trying two other kinds, but they don’t do the work like yours and we do not think we will experiment on any other fluid soon.
G. W. CHURCHILL & SON.
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Salem, Mass., Aug. 1, 1883.
CRANE & ALLEN:
Please send by express at once, a large carboy of the Preservative. I would say that after using all kinds of embalming fluids in the market, I am obliged to write you that your Preservative has proved the most satisfactory and I have had the best results from its use.
WM. H. CHANDLER.
And again, Oct. 5, 1885:
CRANE & ALLEN:
I cannot speak too much in praise of your Preservative. It is the best I have ever used and I have used a great many kinds.
WM. H. CHANDLER.
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Greensburg, Ind., Nov. 3, 1884.
CRANE & ALLEN:
Please send us six or eight gallons of the Preservative; we have but little left, and would like it sent promptly. A loud noise is made by the blowing of horns for other preparations, but our Mr. Siling says he has the grand confidence in both the Preservative and the men who manufacture it.
GREENSBURG FURNITURE CO.
And again, on Aug. 29, 1885:
CRANE & ALLEN:
Your Preservative is the best stock in the world, we think.
GREENSBURG FURNITURE CO.
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Flemingsburg, Ky., April 7, 1885.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I like your Preservative very much.
THOS. J. HINTON.
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Cincinnati, O., Aug. 11, 1884.
CRANE & ALLEN:
Your Excelsior Preservative is the “boss,” and we intend in the future to use it altogether.
N. H. HACKMAN & CO.
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Danbury, Conn., Sept. 4, 1883.
CRANE & ALLEN:
We are very much pleased in the use of your Preservative. The results are very satisfactory to us.
HAWLEY & SAYER.
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New Hampton, Iowa, Aug. 8, 1884.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I have just used the Preservative in two cases, and it gave better satisfaction than any I ever used. One was a lady who died of inflammation and when I was called she was discolored badly and bloated and very offensive; and at the time of the funeral she was looking entirely natural, and with not the least offensive odor. The other was a dropsical case, and when I went to take care of it the stench was so bad I could hardly stand it; but when I was done with it the odor was entirely destroyed and body as natural as in life.
A. McDONNELL.
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Quincy, Ohio, Sept. 24, 1884.
CRANE & ALLEN:
We must say that your Preservative has given perfect satisfaction, and we intend to let well enough alone and use nothing else.
MEANS & LEACH.
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Winchenden, Mass., June 23, 1884.
CRANE & ALLEN:
We had good success with the case, using your Preservative, last week, with four as hot days as we have had this summer, and the body looked A 1.
N. C. MATTHEWS.
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New Martinsburg, O., Jan. 21, 1884.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I have been using your Preservative the last six or seven years, and as long as I can get it I do not intend to use any other, as I have had the very best success with it.
D. BARRETT.
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Mineral Point, Wis., July 11, 1887.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I have all the Preservative I shall need this season. I shall be pleased to recommend it to anyone, as I can do with a clear conscience, as I have used it for several years and have never lost a case where I have done my work as well as I knew how. I always use, in an adult, three quarts to a gallon, as I do not care for a little Fluid if I keep the case in good shape. Can make a better charge and get it easier.
A. F. BISHOP.
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Grand Haven, Mich., Aug. 13, 1883.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I have found your Preservative entirely satisfactory, and it will be our pleasure to continue our orders from time to time as wanted.
JAMES BARNES.
And again, August 5, 1884:
CRANE & ALLEN:
We enclose money order for last bill. We think your Preservative the best of anything in the market.
JAMES BARNES.
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Philadelphia, Jan. 24, 1883.
CRANE & ALLEN:
Having made some business arrangements I cannot order any of your Fluid, yet your Fluid I cannot but say is one of the best, in my opinion, in the market.
JOHN C. RULON.
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Memphis, Tenn., April 25, 1886.
CRANE & ALLEN:
Received your Preservative and determined to give it a fair trial. I procured a body from the City Hospital and injected Brachial Artery, using five quarts, and also filled cavities through the throat and through Trocar. I placed body in inclined position and kept face bathed with the Preservative as directed, for several days. This is the sixth week, and the body is in good condition, no smell or odor from it—it has been exposed to the air most of the time. I am very much pleased with your Preservative, and place great confidence in it.
ROB’T H. JONES,
_Embalmer for J. F. Holst & Bro._
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Coopersburg, Pa., Oct. 23, 1883.
CRANE & ALLEN:
Please send me five gallons of the Excelsior Preservative at once. I am out of it and cannot get along without it.
JOEL RITTER.
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Rochester, Mich., Sept. 19, 1883.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I consider your Preservative the “Ne Plus Ultra” of embalming preparations and intend using it as long as it gives such satisfaction as it has in past cases.
W. HARVEY GREENE.
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St. Thomas, Ontario, Sept, 9, 1884.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I have used your Preservative in several cases and find it excellent.
SAMUEL GOODWIN.
And again, on Feb. 20, 1885:
CRANE & ALLEN:
You may send me another supply of the Preservative about May 1st. It is a first-class article.
SAMUEL GOODWIN.
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Baraboo, Wis., Jan. 11, 1884.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I have used your Preservative with very good success and think it cannot be surpassed in any particular. I manufacture an article which is cheap and although not quite as safe and reliable as yours, it seems to answer ordinary purposes, but in difficult cases I use yours.
C. BACON.
And again, June 3, 1884:
CRANE & ALLEN:
The Preservative came this morning. I had such good success with that I had before of you that I did not dare to be without it. Have just received intelligence from the South of the condition of a body I sent there a short time since and embalmed with your Preservative. By some mistake things were not in readiness for the burial of the body on arrival and funeral had to be postponed. What surprised every one was that there was not the least indication of dissolution in odor or color, but a natural and healthful appearance of a gentle sleep at the time of the funeral.
C. BACON.
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Cincinnati, Ohio, Jan. 15, 1882.
CRANE & ALLEN:
The Preservative is perfectly satisfactory and we will need some more of it.
F. W. GERSTLE & SON.
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Louisiana, Mo., Aug. 4, 1884.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I have never failed to give entire satisfaction with your Preservative in every case.
J. M. GENTRY.
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Hulmeville, Penn., July 20, 1885.
CRANE & ALLEN:
What is the price of your Preservative? I have been recommended to get it by Robt. R. Bringhurst of Philadelphia, as being the best fluid of any in his estimation.
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 given me good satisfaction.
J. A. HARROUFF.
And again, Dec. 31, 1886:
CRANE & ALLEN:
I make my own fluid for all ordinary use, and use only your Preservative when I have to ship a body or keep it for a considerable time. Shall want some more next season.
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 along without it.
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 it will return the carboy for more of it.
JACOBY & RYERSON.
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Kenosha, Wis., July 18, 1887.
CRANE & ALLEN:
Send us a supply of the Preservative at once as we have only a little left having used a good deal of it lately. If you want any references in regard to the Preservative you can just refer them to us. Our Mr. Hansen has used it with success for some years and knows what it will do; we like it first rate.
HANSEN & HUCK.
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Rockville, Ind., Feb. 22, 1886.
CRANE & ALLEN:
Your Preservative has done all we wish it to do, and we would not be without it for anything, as it is so pleasant and safe to work with.
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 would have ordered some sooner, but had some on hand. After five years use of your Preservative that I have had, I can recommend it and you can refer any one to me if you want to.
J. M. DAVIS.
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Meadville, Penn., March 3, 1886.
CRANE & ALLEN:
I have plenty of the Preservative on hand at present, the last shipment seems to hold out like the “widow’s cruse of oil.” Am satisfied with your Preservative, although I can buy “fluids” cheaper.
L. D. DUNN.
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Gettysburg, O., June 13, 1887.
CRANE & ALLEN:
We highly appreciate the Preservative, knowing as we do its value by having heretofore weighed it in the test balance and found nothing wanting. We would find it hard to dispense with.
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 not practiced much here with us. We wish to say however, that we understand the business and every case we have had with your Preservative has been successful.
DUNLAP & McGOODWIN.
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Burlington, Vt., Jan. 11, 1884.
CRANE & ALLEN:
We are well suited with your Preservative, for it has never failed us when we have used it, and shall feel perfectly safe in recommending it hereafter as a sure preventative and deodorizer as well as a preservative.
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 Preservative, as I have all faith in it, and had I continued in the business I never should change it for anything else. You may count on me as one that can recommend the Preservative, as it has never gone back on me.
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. We have used it in cases that were as bad as could be with the most gratifying results. One case of a lady who died from the effects of child-birth, and we considered it a very bad case; we used the Preservative and kept her five days and shipped her to Parkersburg, W. 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 good as that I can ask nothing better. I like it the best of anything that I have ever tried.
E. F. BASSETT.
And again, on Sept. 28, 1885:
CRANE & ALLEN:
The Preservative still continues to give perfect satisfaction in all cases and I have no wish to change, although I am often urged to try others claiming to be as good and cheaper; but I prefer yours, as I know just what we can do with it and always have good success. Have a body now embalmed with it that was in very bad condition when I took it, and the friends thought it impossible to keep it, but it is keeping splendidly.
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 with any preparation I have ever used. Have thoroughly tested it in the last two weeks, with the thermometer at 98 and 100. One case of heart disease, very fleshy, another of a lady who died of cancer,—the first body was kept a week and the other five days, and the results could not have been better. I like the Preservative, also, because it does not make the hands rough and harsh, as other preparations do, and because it will drive out all the bad smell in a short time. Send me at once another supply, as I cannot do without it.
N. C. WRIGHT.
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Willoughby, O., Feb. 9, 1885.
CRANE & ALLEN:
Please send another supply of Preservative. I think I could not do business without it; I have all confidence in it and consider it No. 1.
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 Preservative and shipped to Edgerton, and the enclosed extract from the Milwaukee _Sentinel_ of July 25th is in regard to the appearance of the body:
“On Wednesday last, a young lady died suddenly at Oconto, and her remains where brought home to Edgerton for interment. A most singular thing, however, is that the remains were not buried on the day of the funeral. Although apparently dead, the usual evidences of dissolution are not present and there are no signs of it visible. The young lady 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 she was regularly embalmed by me, and the life-like appearance was due to the Preservative used.
N. B. MITCHELL.
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Hastings, Neb., March 21, 1887.
CRANE & ALLEN:
We have always had the very best of results since using your Preservative. We used it on a case only about a week ago, and shipped a lady to Illinois and have just received word that the remains arrived and looked as well as when it left here.
COX & REED.
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Mancelona, Mich., Nov, 19, 1887.
CRANE & ALLEN:
We would not be without your Preservative, as it gives perfect satisfaction and we regard it as indispensable in the burial of the dead, both as a deodorizer and as a Preservative.
CHAS. BECHSTEIN & CO.
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Pecatonica, Ills., April 28, 1885.
CRANE & ALLEN:
We are using your Preservative and think there is nothing better in the market. We are using it now in every case of death.
ATKINSON BRO’S.
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Clarinda, Iowa, March 19, 1886.
CRANE & ALLEN:
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