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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1918
Page
10
Wet oil well near Ranger Texas burned three people to death and injured two others as tanks were ruined and the fire continued. Meanwhile Peru seized German vessels interned at Callao after diplomatic break with Germany.
An American soldier recalls a harrowing triage journey under shell fire from a first aid post to a large English hospital. He describes ambulance rides, Red Cross nurses, and the warm welcome at Munsey ward, plus daring escapes, transfusions, and the camaraderie that helped him endure.
In Pontotoc county operators push to develop a large producing field amid material and driller shortages. Seventy plus wells are described with various statuses from producing to rigging up. The latest well by Homackla Oil Co. is making 50 barrels of natural gas and oil, with several offsettings and fishing jobs ongoing.
A mixed snippet notes Hall's Catarrh Cure offering a $100 reward for cures and muses about Congress and Provost Marshal reports. It mentions 744 865 young Americans coming of age to register for military service on June 5, with 205,588 enlisted by Army and Navy estimates and a total of 353,686 eligible. It references June as a wartime savings day.
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