$25 <W Starts Electric Light 
and Power to You 
P LENTY of light—in the house, in the barn, the 
yard, the dairy, the hen houses, the out-buildings; 
plenty of light for feeding, for milking, for “slop¬ 
ping*' the pigs, for getting hay from the mow, corn 
from the crib, meal from the bins. 
Besides plenty of power. Power for running water, 
for grinding feed, sawing wood, sharpening tools, 
milking, separating, churning, washing, ironing, 
vacuum cleaning. 
The Columbian runs by kerosene—cheaper than gas, and 
supplying a greater number of heat units. A few cents’ worth 
per week—less than yovi use to fill your kerosene lamps—is 
all this engine needs. 
And repairs never worry you, either. Suppose, year after 
next your Columbian needs new piston rings. Do you have to 
write to the factory ami sit down to wait? You do not. You 
just run over to your Ford parts man and get Ford rings. 
Suppose it's a new valve. Same thing. An easily gotten 
Ford valve does the trick. 
Even if it’s a connecting rod bearing—a Ford bearing 
speedily replaces it. 
That’s quick enough, isn’t it? And it’s economical enough, 
too. There’s no excess profit on Ford repair parts. What's 
more. Ford is famous for best hiaterials—better, it is said, than 
go into many of the cars selling for big figures. 
And here’s something else—the Columbian has been so sim¬ 
plified in the number of its parts, that if you should happen to 
hack the tractor into it and have to replace all its 
working parts, your bill probably wouldn't be 
over $12. 
But accidents don't happen often to a Columbian. 
It's a sturdy, well-made, handsomely made, fully 
guaranteed product from the factory’ of a concern 
s that, for more than sixteen years, has been building 
Rs high grade mechanical apparatus, 
i||| HOW LONG WOULD A FORD LAST? 
SKSyfj If your good old Ford were driven only three 
times a week, for a two-hour drive, over & joltless 
j9g||g| rood, how long would it last? Why, your grand- 
children would he willing it to their grandchildren, 
iaj jpigigi That will give you some idea of how long your 
diWifjjyL Colombian will last, with just the usual care. Does 
that sound like the expensive investment some men 
think a lighting and power plant is going to be? 
v cHral fiKl The Columbian is certainy economical. 
lx«s§;p| The initial cost is not as high as the usual equip- 
ment rated at the same capacity. And you get a 
little more light and much more power. After in- 
. I Eywlf stalkuion, it is cheaper to maintain than any other 
form of light and power. 
MW WHY put it off any longer? 
When you stop to think that only $25 starts a 
We'IsF Columbian Electric Light and Tower l’lant from the 
7(IUjj|[ factory to you— immediately —are you going to let 
your family go through another of those dull, dark, 
discouraging winters, when your home and your 
VfiSiS farm buildings could be- bright and happy and busy 
the whole year through? 
'Xg|j Are you going on using kerosene lamps and lan- 
H| terns—with all the work of cleaning, trimming and 
filling them—when you could be rid of the work, 
w the expense and the dangerous fire risk by having a 
y Columbian? 
f Are you going on pumping and carrying your 
water by the laborious bucketful, when you can so 
easily have running water in tin- house, the yard, 
the barns—running water to bathe in, to wash the 
clothes and the dishes in, to water the stock, etc.— 
by answering this advertisement? 
Is your wife to go on always toiling so hard, 
when the work of washing, ironing, sweeping, run¬ 
ning the sewing machine can all lie shortened many 
hours, and made pleasanter? 
Don’t put it off any longer. Sit down now and 
fill in the coupon. It will be one of the biggest 
things you’ve done in your life, for the farm and 
for the family. 
DON’T WAIT ANY LONGER 
This summer get busy and have the electric lighting 
plant that you’ve needed and wanted so long. Be as 
up-to-date about lighting as you are about planting, 
haying and harvesting, chicken-raising and dairying 
and all the other producing details of your 
farming business. 
$25 is all you need to start a Columbian Noti 
Electric Light and Power plant on its way to pact. 
you immediately. No long waiting—we Will andi 
ship one at once. look 
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SIMPLE AS A ONE-CYLINDER FORD a nd 
Imagine a Ford engine with only one ^ ce 
cylinder. Pretty easy to operate and take * 
care of—eh? Well, that’s practically what a •(,. 
Columbian is. ^ 
Think of your good old Ford engine, run- fasti 
ning steadily along, year in. year out, seldom J 
out of order hut quickly repaired when it is 
—the most serviceable machine ever built. 
Think of that, and you’ve a pretty accurate 
idea of the way your Columbian is going to 
LIGHT AND POWER A-PLENTY ALWAYS jM 
Your good old Ford always came across >|||§|? 
with as much power as you needed—and 
right when you needed it, too. 
Don’t make the mistake of buying as little ra||||p| 
power as you can get along with in a farm 
power plant. Buy cnontih. You’ll often want *||j||||||| 
to connect up with the milker just when most 
of the house lights are on. Or grind some 
feed just when your wife has the electric j 
iron hitched up. . • Mj 
The Columbian is made in the size that best 
guarantees plenty of light and power—1,500 watts. 
We consulted the preferences of 12,000 farmers, to 
determine the capacity best suited to their needs 
and found that 90 per cent, require a plant of 1,500 
watts. 
The Columbian supplies enough power to run a 
circuit of 40 brilliant 40-watt electric lamps. Enough 
to give more than 4 horse-power oil the- belt. Enough 
to be doing several important jobs at one time with¬ 
out using up your batteries. 
Columbian Electric 
LIGHT AND POWER 
LIBERTY MODEL 
Simple as a One-Cylinder Ford 
MAIL THIS TODAY 
IF YOU LIKE FIGURES 
IMPORTANT 
ANNOUNCEMENT 
The Columbian plant consists of engine, generator and battery. 1 he toi- 
lowing specifications give all the details. In looking them over, remember your 
Ford and note how simply the engine is planned and constructed, how easy tt 
is to keep going. 
ENGINE Timer—Adjustable, mounted on ex- 
Vertical, single cylinder. water . ' fn ' U ' d . generator 
cooled, 4 cycle. 3#* bore. 4" stroke, Hn blad^cas? on to cool 
4 H. P„ at 1200 R. P. M . Fitted with frame fan blades cast on to 
oower pulley. Height, 24", Base, 33 generator. ._ e i r r 
bv 22" over all. Weight. 425 lbs. Cylinder Head—Easily removable for 
Crankshaft— 1 •/*" nickel steel. Crank ( use — Horizontally split on 
Cam-Shaft— kJ" finished machine center line of crankshaft. 
steel, hardened and ground. Oil Gauge—Two pet cocks, high and 
•Main Bearings—Ball bearing. low level. 
"Tinier Gears—Steel, spiral teeth. Lubrication—Crank case splash to 
•Valves—1 >4" with hardened steel all bearings and moving parts. 
•Valve Springs. GENERATOR 
•Valve Spring Clips. - Full i K.W. d500 watts) 40 volt, 
"Valve Guide*, direct current, ball bearing, 2 pole. 
•Valve- Push Rods. A. I. E. E. Standard, dircct-con- 
• Valve Push Rod Bushings. nected. 
Cylinder—Highest grade semi-steel. RATTKRV 
•Piston—Gray iron—3 rings. 
•Piston Rings—Highest grade gray 16 Cell, 32 Volt, Prest-O-Lite sealed 
iron, lapped joint. glass jar type. 171 Ampere Hour. 
•Piston Pin—Machine steel, hardened specially designed for isolated lighting 
and ground. . plant service. 
'Working parts interchangeable with Ford engine parts. 
LIBERTY LIGHT CORPORATION 
522 Fifth Avenue, New York City 
The writer who has been President of the 
Columbian Bronze Corporation for four- 
uen (14) years, has made a contract for 
the purchase of the farm lighting plant 
business from the Columbia Bronze Cor¬ 
poration, including all rights for the manu¬ 
facture and sale of the Columbian Electric 
Light and Power Plant, having the engine 
parts interchangeable with Ford automobile 
engine parts. This purchase includes all 
lights to the subject matter of the adver¬ 
tisements, the literature and everything 
pertaining to the Columbian lighting plant 
Please send me your free booklet “HOW 
TO JUDGE A LIGHT AND POWER 
PLANT," also full information regarding 
the Columbian and details of your offer to 
ship me a Columbian Plant on payment of 
$25. Tell me lto\v a Columbian can reduce 
my fire risks, increase my hens' laying 
capacity, increase the sales value of my 
property, let me accomplish more work 
with fewer hands, and give me a hundred 
other advantages I do not now enjoy. 
Name 
LIBERTY LIGHT CORPORATION 
By Louts J. Hall, President. 
State 
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