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Show OIL ENRICHES WOUNDED YANK Curtis Boyle Returns From France to Find Gushing Well on His Farm. ' Junction City, Kan. Unfitted by wounds to follow his pre-war pursuit of farming. Curtis Boyle, a soldier in two armies, returned from France to find that during his absence an oil well has been drilled on his farm near reabody, Kan., yielding 000 barrels a ! day. Boyle purchased th" land several sev-eral years ago foi .?2 an acre. The soldier oil-magnate, who is now i in the Fort Riley Reconstruction hospital, hos-pital, sustained 2S bullet and shrapnel shrap-nel wounds during his military service, serv-ice, in addition to being gassed and burned by liquid fire. He enlisteij in the Third Canadian infantry late in 1914 and was transferred trans-ferred to the American forces last year, serving with the Thirty-fifth and Seventy-seventh divisions. Boyle has silver plates in his arm, leg and collarbone collar-bone and is minus his ribs and lung on the right side. His legitimate quota of wound stripes runs from wrist to shoulder. |