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Greek fire and oil bonanza at Pithole era recalled
The article recounts the medieval Greek fire weapon and its fiery terror, then shifts to the Pithole oil boom. It describes Thomas H. Brown locating wells, the rapid rise of a 50 000 population boom, rampant crime, speculation, and eventual decline with unmatched wealth and ruin.
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Gibbon
Murray
Constantinople
Constantine the Great
Biles
Thomas H. Brown
Cleopolis
Pithole
Pennsylvania
John Holenden
Tom Brown
Frazier
Ohio
Hldorado
Lee
Pragier
Pittsburg
Buffalo
Col
T. H. Ellsworth
Beit
Holenden Farm
Sodom
Ellsworth
Chicago
Heart of the Belt
New York
Col. Ellsworth
Wildom