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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1955
Page
3
Attendance reached 58 in Sunday School as Rev. Clarence Ehrat and family shared Sunday dinner with Dwight Petrea and family. A large crowd joined in the community singing Sunday afternoon as Edgar Perkins and his Mansfield Illinois kin visited William Perkins and family.
A Pittsburgh display recreates 200 million years of oil field formation using a growing model. Geologist J B Currie of Gulf Oil laboratories explains how clay layers and rising salt domes create faults that trap oil, illustrating exploratory search methods.
Miss Janet Kile of Decatur visits her parents Howard Kile and wife, while Howard Perrine and family of Greenup, Kentucky visit relatives nearby. Henry Meredith and family attend a singing at Fredonia and receive news of drought in southern Arizona. Additional visits include Frances Hick with daughters and Alec Anderson with Pila Cozad. The piece notes the Gutenberg Bible's 1445 publication and the Boston News Letter as the oldest newspaper on file at the Library of Congress.
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