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Oklahoma Bristow oil tour fuels brisk reporter chatter
A traveling reporter details Bristow Oklahoma’s oil fields vast derricks and a gas well blast that sent gas and bagged confetti skyward. The piece notes leases at one dollar per acre and one eighth oil shares, Bristow’s booming industry and civic life including a barbecue and a church organ recital.
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Jack Walton
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U. S
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First Presbyterian Church
Hugh McAmish
E.H. Rollestone
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Rollestone
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Park Coliseum
Frisco Railway
Chamber of Commerce
Lions Club