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un motion tlie meeting aujourneu, suo-ject to tbe call of the state executive committee. The Congressional District Association will hereafter meet on fourth Saturday of each month, after 1st of May.I. M. Brown, L. G. Arum, Secretary. President.thetheThe Days and Doings of ' Coal OilJohnny.”From the Terre Haute Saturday EveningMail.Many of our exchanges are full of editorial comments upon a subject which vividly recalls to mind the exciting day of 1?58, when poor farmers and land owners of what are now known as thePennsylvania oil regions, who previously could realize but a few dollars per acre for their land, suddenly found themselves millionaires It was due to the great oil boom, that people rose from poverty to afluence. The story of a young man who in one day, advanced trom driving an ox team to ihe possession of the royalty income of over three thousand dollars per day, nay and then squandered hi3 fortune so completely, as to be obliged to return to his former occupation, is tamiliar to newspaper readers of those days and the doings of Coal Oil Johnny as he was called, will long be remembered. The present excitement to which we refer above, is also due to an oil subject, but ot a different kind as will appear trom the following interviews with business men of Terre Haute. C. A. Robinson, Esq.. of the well known drug house of Robinson Reiss, 601 Fourth street, said: Mr George Knoelir after having tried all remedies recommended to him for Rheumatism, received no relief until he tried St. Jacobs Oil, the first application of which gave him relief, and ihe continued use cured him, Mr. F. W. Sbalev, tbe family grocer, corner Poplar and Ninth street who tbe reportei understood has had experience with the remedy referred to, was also visited. This gentleman after remarking that he had frequently used the St. Jacobs Oil in his family with tbe promptest relief in every iastance, cited the case of Mr Ja- M. Hart lev, a well-known farmer living in Lost Creek township. He had been an extreme sufferer with rheumatism, and the St. Jacobs Oil not onlv effected a radical cure with him,%but his friends to whom »he had recommended it experienced the same gratifying results, and all were high in praise of its wonderful power.The next gentleman called upon was Mr. James L. Somes, the druggist, Cor., Twelfth and Main streets, who assured the reporter that he was selling more of this Great German Remedy and with better results—viz: Satisfaction to the buyers,—than of any similar remedy.These reports are in uuison with thoseappearing in every part of the country, and it is not to be wondered at, that they should produce astonishment among the people, the press, and the profession, and cause aother “oil boom.OhTmY!to a c suspi but tl wind from that i done Jatconvlt;and t witnlt; some that i Lam]thoii£ of los on th ness i towaiit hacomt A sinsaw'wild wher him 1 he hs two v notic the tc tounlt;W:that ito thlt; N obc aboutdroveuntil A bou to tblt;five ci aga i i been came on ththenplacehe bli got h ihe ii and I that 1 until Jatthe U the e^ mornasleeffor hi lights lightc cine, think u o’cl east \ wishi them the w dow i the re nothi tie ue whenMitestinpitititestiti
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Terre Haute Weekly Gazette
Terre Haute, Indiana, US
Thu, Apr 27, 1882
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