Kinston, Sept. 18—Wayne Mitchell, mayor of this town, today warned residents not to invest in “oil lands.” He said a competent geologist had told him chances for a “strike” in the section east of here were remote. Mitchell said a current story of Standard Oil purchase of land related to acquisition purchases of land related to acquisition of timber rights for a cooperate plant, many years ago.
From page 3 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Sept. 19, 1924
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