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Show An Elastic Clientele Some time ago there died in Pittsburgh Pitts-burgh n quaint person who was known as "the nestor of the oil business." It appears that he was a strange' and wonderful compound self-made, un educated, but a man of great natural force. Once he had a fight on with a great oil company. A conference was arranged, ar-ranged, and the representative of the compnny had prepared an Imposing array ar-ray of figures Phowlng this gentleman gentle-man how hadly they had beaten him The stntement included a paragraph to the effect that the corppany had 2.700 gns users In a certain town. A a matter of fact, the number was les than .1(10. The old oil man ran down tiie list, commenting pithily on the various va-rious items. When he came to this particular town he ran his finger alone it and said: "Say, If the girl had hit that pinner nnother lick you'd have had 27.000. wouldn't your' Kans City Star. |