. Little journeys to the homes of the great . This wagon comes to your door,and the gentlemanly agent sees that your little house-hold tank is kept filled. All you have to do is to turna faucet. Aye, in this pleasant village of East Aurorais a Standard Oil agent who will fill your lamp andtrim the wick, provided you buy your lamps, chimneysand wicks of him. And this service is Standard Oil Service—it extendsfrom Halifax to San Diego; from New Orleans toHudson Bay. In very truth, it covers the world 33This service, with prohibition in the South, has ruinedthe coopers trade, the trade that intro
. Little journeys to the homes of the great . This wagon comes to your door,and the gentlemanly agent sees that your little house-hold tank is kept filled. All you have to do is to turna faucet. Aye, in this pleasant village of East Aurorais a Standard Oil agent who will fill your lamp andtrim the wick, provided you buy your lamps, chimneysand wicks of him. And this service is Standard Oil Service—it extendsfrom Halifax to San Diego; from New Orleans toHudson Bay. In very truth, it covers the world 33This service, with prohibition in the South, has ruinedthe coopers trade, the trade that introduced H. into the Standard Oil investment in cooperage used in the oil businesshas shrunk from a hundred millions to less than fivemillions, while the traffic in oil has the germ of this service to the consumer came fromthe time when Henry Rogers worked a grocery routefor a co-operative concern that cut out the expensivemiddleman and instead focused on a faultless serviceto the consumer. 384 H. H. ROGERS. HE name M petroleum is Latin. The wordhas been in use since the time of Pliny, wholived neighbor to Paul in Rome, when theApostle abided in his own hired house, await-ing trial under an indictment for saying things aboutthe Established Religion. Until within sixty years, the world thought that petro-leum was one simple substance. Now we find it is athousand, mixed and fused and blended in the crucibleof Time. Science sifts, separates, dissolves, analyzes, perfumes gathered by the tendrils of violet androse, in their divine desire for expression, are found inpetroleum. Aye, the colors and all the delicate tints ofpetal, of stamen and of pistil, are in this substancestored in the dark recesses of the has yielded up over two thousand distinctsubstances, wooed by the loving, eager caress of thechemist. All the elements that go to make up the earthare there. Hundreds of articles used in commerce andin our daily live
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