Sketches in Crude Oil: Some Accidents and Incidents of the Petroleum Development in All Parts of the Globeauthor, 1896 - 406 páginas |
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... took a spring to fall . " " Because everything was greased for the occasion ! Unquestionably the only lubricant on this footstool just then was the petroleum brewed in God's own sub- terranean stills . Therefore , petroleum figured in ...
... took a spring to fall . " " Because everything was greased for the occasion ! Unquestionably the only lubricant on this footstool just then was the petroleum brewed in God's own sub- terranean stills . Therefore , petroleum figured in ...
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... took all summer . " In 1874 S. G. Bayne , now president of the Seaboard Bank of New York and the most successful disposer of oil - well outfits “ that e'er the sun shone on , " visited these oriental regions . The hard fate of the ...
... took all summer . " In 1874 S. G. Bayne , now president of the Seaboard Bank of New York and the most successful disposer of oil - well outfits “ that e'er the sun shone on , " visited these oriental regions . The hard fate of the ...
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... took a ten- gallon cargo to Pittsburg , riding with it eighty miles on horseback and trading the oil for cloth and groceries . His memory should be cherished as the first " shipper " of petroleum to " the Smoky City , " then a mere ...
... took a ten- gallon cargo to Pittsburg , riding with it eighty miles on horseback and trading the oil for cloth and groceries . His memory should be cherished as the first " shipper " of petroleum to " the Smoky City , " then a mere ...
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... took sick and died , after a very short illness , in 1870 , four days before the well was through the sand and pumping at the rate of fifty bar- rels per diem ! This singular well merits a brief notice . From the first sand , not a ...
... took sick and died , after a very short illness , in 1870 , four days before the well was through the sand and pumping at the rate of fifty bar- rels per diem ! This singular well merits a brief notice . From the first sand , not a ...
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... took fire from the gas at the well having been ignited by a workman carrying a light . The burning oil ran into the creek , blazed to the tops of the trees and exhibited for hours to the amazed settlers the novelty of a rivulet on fire ...
... took fire from the gas at the well having been ignited by a workman carrying a light . The burning oil ran into the creek , blazed to the tops of the trees and exhibited for hours to the amazed settlers the novelty of a rivulet on fire ...
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Página 316 - Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill : Did this in Caesar seem ambitious ? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept : Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious ; And Brutus is an honourable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Yet he did thrice refuse.
Página 31 - THE harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled. So sleeps the pride of former days, So glory's thrill is o'er, And hearts that once beat high for praise Now feel that pulse no more.
Página 66 - Implored your highness' pardon and set forth A deep repentance: nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death, To throw away the dearest thing he owed As 'twere a careless trifle.
Página 394 - I would rather they would bring them out in my weary and troubled hours, and open them, that I may be refreshed and cheered by them while I need them. I would rather have a plain coffin without a flower, a funeral without a eulogy, than a life without the sweetness of love and sympathy.
Página 293 - But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think...
Página 38 - Some months since, in the act of boring for salt water on the land of Mr. Lemuel Stockton, situated in the County of Cumberland, Kentucky, a vein of pure oil was struck, from which it is almost incredible what quantities of the substance issued. The discharges were by floods at intervals of from two to five minutes, at each flow vomiting forth many barrels of pure oil. . . . These floods continued for three or four weeks, when they subsided to a constant stream, affording many thousand gallons per...
Página 26 - The healthful balm, from nature's secret spring, The bloom of health and life to man will bring; As from her depths the magic liquid flows, To calm our sufferings and assuage our woes.
Página 301 - Age sits with decent grace upon his visage, And worthily becomes his silver locks; He wears the marks of many years well spent, Of virtue, truth well tried, and wise experience; A friend like this would suit my sorrows well.
Página 316 - Caesar, because the times are hard, And his folks can't afford to hire an undertaker. The evil that men do lives after them In the shape of progeny, who reap The benefit of their life insurance.
Página 394 - Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness. Speak approving, cheering words while their ears can hear them, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them ; the kind things you mean to say when they are gone, say before they go.