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Graettinger Dreams and Ringsted Oil Hopes Wall Street on Wheels
Shorty Lester tours through Estherville and Sherburne on the M and St L line en route to Graettinger. He hears locals tout mining and oil potential while a veteran railman recalls historic coal hopes near Estherville. Lester, intrigued, senses a land of opportunity amid gravel gold talk and regional prospects.
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Leonhard Lester
Shorty
Plue Earth
Shu Burne
Graettinger
Lester
Listeke
Persennen
Shorty Potoon Board
Inc
Sherburne
Minnesota
M. & St. L. Cannon Ball Limited
Witherville
Sherburrne
Gmettinger
AL Estherville
Rock Tsland
Coun
Emmet
Cedar Rapids
Sioux Falls
Les
Goll
Alaska
Grachtinger
Ringsted
Laster
Crnellinper
Betherville
Estherville
Rock Island
Land of Opportunity
Dinny
Rock’ Island
Imay
Towa