The Oil Prince and the Broad Way Spree
A New York City tale recounts Petrolian the oil prince who spends four hundred and fifty dollars in two hours after rescuing a mud covered orphan. He buys clothes, shows generosity to a widow, and treats a sick mother and her child, ending with a dinner at a Fifth Avenue hotel.
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New York
Broadway
Fifth Avenue
Petrolia
Oil City
Charley
Barclay Street
Petrolian
Petroleum
Emporium
S Boy’s Clothing Emporium
Mammy
Hackman
Boston
LA Writer
New York World
Castor
Odin
Iris Steed
Custer
Bend
Custar
Ashby de la Zouche
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G. Pollock
Fowler, Morey & Co
Water Street
Carver House
Warren
Wa. V. Hazeltine
Johnson’s Exchange
E. T. Hazeltine
Culbertson, Bowman & CO
Youngsville
Chase Osgood
Sheffield
Warren County
L. A. Pierce
Florence
Edwin Clark
East Street
Boss & Peavey
James Stedman’s
Charles Dinsmoor
Scofield
Parmlee & Henry
Joseph A. Neill
Johnson's Exchange
Brown & Mkelvy
Liberty Street
G. W. Scofield
WM. D. Brown
D. M'Kelvy
NA Jamieson
Wetmore & Clark
Second Street
Johnson & Brown's
L. D. Wetmore
J. R. Clark
Second and
Liberty Streets
Joan Russert
L. B. Mintonye
D. V. Stranathan
Front Street
Postoffice
C. L. Hessel & CO
Yankee Nations, &c
Bysecker Block
P. J. Trushel & CO
Warren Pa
Randall’s Drug Store
Brown Brothers
W. Brown
Thos. Brown
A. Kirberger
Greenland Brothers
George Ball
Central Clothing
O. H. Hunter
A. Fisher
National Bank
Johnson
Warren, Pa
First National Bank of
U. S
Chapin Hall
J. M. Beeecheer, Jr
Willis Trew
W. Martin
Suum
Cortland Street
Greenwich
Washington Sts
Eg Martin, . Martin
Erier
Faust
Wood
Clinton County
Custom House
Mobile News
Richmond
Sherman
Broad Avenue
Columbia
Libby Prison
Davis & Lee
Grover & Baker Sewing Machine Company
American Agriculturist
M. 1
Philadelphia and Erie
Ivania
Erie
Pennsy Erie
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Pameners
Warren Accom
Corry
JL A. M
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Fiie
Lock Haven
Elmira
Wiliamsport
Cor
Great Western
Akron
Meadville
Salamanca
Cleveland and Pittsburg Railway
Cleveland
Zanesville and Cincinnati
H. F. Sweetser
Meadville, Pa
Erie Railway
Dunkirk
Wayceasen
Way Freight
P. Eleek
N.Y
Secessee
Steamboat Express
Cincinnati Express
H. Riddle
Gwi
Buffalo and Erie Railroad
Buffalo
Toledo
Lewis Grant
Oil Creek Railroad
Suaeeer
Philadelphia & Erie Railroad
Lake Shore
Atlantic & Great Western
Philadelphia & Erie
Frank Thomson
A. C. Schnell
Erie and
Pittsburg
Girard
Sharon
Clarksville
Espyville
Center Road
Spring, Wells
Crosses
J. Lewis Grant
Lamb's
Goodwin’s and Johnsons
Ewart
Grover & Baker
F.T. Hazeltine & CO
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