Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 259, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1917 — Petroleum’s Discovery. [ARTICLE]

Petroleum’s Discovery.

Experts furnish us with data, as to potential supplies of' English petroleum which the government has commandeered, but they omit the astounding romance of that little trickle of oil In a Biddings coalpit which became the progenitor of the whole enormous industry In petroleum products. The oil was a nuisance 'where it was until the future Lord Playfair analyzed It and understood it, and got it turned over to “Paraffin” Young. Young farmed that stream and set the whole world tapping new resources. —London Chronicle. ■, '. : .