Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Thirteenth Year - Number 43
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, June 19, 1902
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STRUCK OIL.
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A Citizen of Chilton Finds A
Flow on His Farm.
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It is only a Pimple.
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       Chilton has some excitement over the finding of an oil vein there by one of its citizens.
       N J Bradley was boring a well on his farm for water when he struck a vein of dark looking liquid from which there emitted strong indications of kerosene.
       A bottle was let down into the well by means of a cord and a quantity of the liquid secured.  An analysis of it was made by a local chemist and he pronounced it genuine crude petroleum.
       A piece of wood was saturated with it and it burned readily.
       The find may develope a pumper but a gusher is hardly hoped for.

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