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Pierce. Old among oil companies is Pierce Petroleum Corp. whose predecessor companies have been in the business since the first well was drilled in Pennsylvania, which claims to have been the first to use a tank wagon in delivering oil to retailers. Since dissolution of the Standard Oil trust, Pierce Petroleum has not done well. With four of its five refineries now too obsolete for use, it is not equipped to supply its many bulk and service stations in the U. S. and Mexico. Last week Sinclair Consolidated decided Pierce's distribution system would be a valuable addition...
...Founder Smith led a group of Mormons out of Ohio into Missouri, set tled in Independence (Jackson County), historic point of departure for wagon-trains taking the Santa Fe, Old Salt Lake and Oregon trails. He proclaimed the new Jerusalem. Two years later the Mormons were brusquely ushered out of the county, scattered through the state...
...hitch my wagon...
April 10-Beginning of "Covered Wagon Centennial" celebration. Occasion: 100th anniversary of departure of first wagon train from St. Louis toward Oregon country...
April 10? Beginning of "Covered Wagor Centennial" celebration, by proclamation of President Hoover. Occasion: 100th anniversary of departure of first wagon train from St. Louis toward the Oregon...