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.
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.