Evans City oil rush as derricks fill small town
In Butler county, Evans City hosts a surge of oil activity with nearly all town lots leased for drilling. Visitors visit the sight of many derricks on limited space while the South Penn Oil Company and Amber Oil Company report productive wells in the pool. The No 5 on the FB White farm and No 2 on the Kreuzber seventeen acres lead as best producers.
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Evans City
Butler County
South Penn Oil Company
Midland
F. B.white Farm
Amber Oil Company
Sutton Farm
South Penn 011 Company
White Farm
Kreuzber
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound praised in letters
A reader from Plover, Wisconsin, touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for curing her daughter’s menstrual weakness after doctors failed. The letter claims the product restored regular, strong health and notes the company offers confidential guidance from women in Lynch Mass.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Iona
Lydia B. Pinkham
Magby Hetgh
Plover, Sons
Bydia E. Pinkham
Lynch
Mass
South Penn Oil shows strong wells and big losses in West Virginia fields
The report details heavy expenditures on bonuses and drilling across multiple West Virginia counties. It notes the White farm gusher boosting undrilled locations, with the South Penn Oil Company acquiring the farm in the late 1800s and drilling the No. 5, leading to Nos. 6 and 7. Other wells in Lincoln, Gilmer, Pleasants, Wood, and Harrison counties show varied results from dusters to light pumpers, with a notable 2.5 million cubic feet per day gas well at Slab Run. Prices and crude quotes for Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Canada are listed, with Producers and Refiners Co. quoting $1.85 for Pennsylvania crude.
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Fox
Pune
Evans
South Penn Oil Company
South
Iyanty Oye Ee
Worest Oil Company
Thomas W. Phillips
Church Lot
South Penn
West Virginia
Turtle Tree Fork
Sroun Nsw
Lincoln
Hamilton Company
Boswell Adkins Heirs
Sheridan District
Rosedale
Center District
Gilmer County
Crooked Fork Oil and Gas Company
Julius A. Rider
Walker Creek
Walker
Wood County
G. I. Bunnell
Duerra
Washington
Pleasants County
Watterson Oil Company
Myria Smith
Horseneck
Union District
Ritchile
Carnegie Natural Gas Company
M. H.cox
Ten Mile District
Harrison County
Arthur Sheeta
L. W Shahan
Gordon
Hope Natural Gas Company
W. M. Strother
Millers Station
Franklin Township
Ohio
Sinclair Oil Company
G. B. Gladman
Berea
Nashport
Jackson Township
Muskingum County
Columbus Oil and Fuel Company
Robert Ashcraft
Payne
Lawrence Township
Washington County
BE. P. McCutchedn
Joseph Smith
Pennsylvania
Mercer
New Castle
Corning
Cabell
North Lima
South Lima
Princeton
Wooster
Indiana
Somerset
Ragland
Illinois
Kansas
Oklahoma
Corsicana
Lectra
Healdton
Henrietta
Caddo
Canada
Producers and Refiters’ Company
Oil and Gas Men Plan Parkersburg Convention
Directors of the Oil and Gas Mex Association of West Virginia vote to hold their first annual convention in Parkersburg from September 22 to 30. The event will be at Ter "\"a pin Park\" with about 12 000 expected attendees from across the state. Manufacturers plan exhibits and local oil men will form committees to organize features and arrangements. A local oil men’s meeting is expected to set up committees for various features.
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Parkersburg
Oil and Gas Mex Association of
West Virginia
Millen
Cowell
Mien Bere
Jecret Mullen
Tressurer Bi Cowell
Woman Taken To Asylum By Sheriff Officer
Taken to the asylum at Weston, Dalla Smith, accompanied by five representatives of the Sheriff’s Office, was moved Friday after the county lunacy commission judged her insane.
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Dalla Smith
Weston
County
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