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Show Paupers Strike Oil in Poorhouse Yard I lift V s -T" ' S v. , J- $ i f v- i JOHN LIUI'P and J. W. Yerian, who trudged over the hill to the Washington Wash-ington county infirmary at Marietta, Ohio, three years ago, victims of the depression, struck oil in the poor house yard, and the well Is yielding thirty barrels a day. Hupp Is sixty-nine, and Yerian sixty-one, both veterans of the derrick rigs, and they are happier over their strike than the money it will bring them. They have been all over the oil country from Oklahoma to Ohio and when the factastic thought occurred to them that there was oil in the backyard, the Pauper Oil company was organized, organ-ized, with funds loaned by Superintendent L. A. Hall. |