Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1910 — A Remarkable Strike. [ARTICLE]

A Remarkable Strike.

A man In Ohio recently sought an expert In oil because he believed that he had struck oil on his land. He brought a sample in a bottle. Evidently he had been In a great hurry and had hastily grabbed the first bottle at hand, for when the chemist had duly analyzed the sample submitted he sent the following telegraphic report: “Find no trace of oil. You have struck paregoric.”—Youth’s Companion.