Natural gas is also needed to replace heavily polluting coal-burning stoves in major northern cities.

Merchants could market heavier items such as manufactured furniture and the coveted coal-burning stoves.

We even made use of the kolenkachel (coal-burning stove) that they still had in storage from the Suez crisis a few years earlier.

About 70 percent of all wood- and coal-burning stoves are installed by the consumers themselves.

Some homeowners are even switching to cheaper heating sources, like wood- and coal-burning stoves.

Another man decided that it was important to have a coal-burning stove in his Wanderlodge.

Most houses were heated by fireplaces, although some had coal-burning stoves.

Kerosene lamps gave light here, and her mother cooked on a coal-burning stove.

Five years later, she ordered the building of a greenhouse, heated by a dozen coal-burning stoves.

He notes that Vermont is now struggling with pollution problems resulting from extensive use of coal-burning stoves.