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“WANTED — Salesmen agents to sell the automatic, economy, self-lighting gas burners; everybody buys them; $10 per day easily made by live men; five prize medals awarded.”

From Washington Post • Sep. 5, 2021

On this day in 1927, the Tucson Daily Star announced that Senor Juan Evaristo Anchondo had developed a self-lighting cigarette which was ignited by briskly rubbing the tip over a striking surface on the package.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 10, 2018

On this date in 1927, the Tucson Daily Star announced that Senor Juan Evaristo Anchondo had developed a self-lighting cigarette which was ignited by briskly rubbing the tip over a striking surface on the package.

From Washington Times • Jan. 13, 2016

Coal-gas may be employed instead of hydrogen, and this has led to the application of the principle to self-lighting devices for igniting gas flames.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various

It is an ordinary plumber’s smoke-rocket, fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting.

From The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir