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Wonderful Scenes on Oil Creek—Mud and Grease
Galore—Rise and Fall of Phenomenal Towns—Shaffer,
Pioneer and Petroleum Centre—Fortune’s Queer
Vagaries—Wells Flowing Thousands of Barrels—Sherman,
Delamater and “Coal-Oil Johnnie”—From Penury to
Riches and Back—Recitals that Discount Fairy-Tales.