One large hotel in the city partly solved the lighting problem by the use of hurricane lamps and improvised spirit lights. Lamps made of jam jars half-filled with kerosene with a wick of mop threads, dimly illuminated the lounge and stairways.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25207, 11 June 1947, Page 8
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