coal oil

In a collection of many brief chapters, she brings back the wood cookstoves and coal oil lamps, bloomers made from flour sacks, schoolyard games, and the day the circus came to town.

We had a coal oil stove and even a folding stool as pictured.

There were no hospitals for black people in the area around Schaal, and, if by chance you cut your foot while doing farm work, you put coal oil (the equivalent of kerosene) on it.

The important point was how much "coal oil" (read: kerosene) to add to the crankcase to thin the oil.

One of my chores as a young boy was to fill lamps in the house with coal oil poured from a gallon can.