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HOW KEROSENE IS MADE.; WORKS OF THE STANDARD OIL COMPANY AT WHITING, IND. Plant Is the Largest in the World and Is Absorbing All the Company's Western Business --Not Only Oil but Wax, Coke, and Electric Light Carbons Are Manufactured from the Crude Material-- How the Work Is Done. Discovery of Oil in Ohio. Manufacture All Things Needed. How Kerosene Is Made. Keep in Touch with the Market. Perfect Fire Protection.

Chicago Daily Tribune (1872-1963).  Chicago, Ill.: Jun 21, 1896.  pg. 18, 1 pgs

Document types: article

Publication title: Chicago Daily Tribune (1872-1963)., Chicago, Ill.: Jun 21, 1896.  pg. 18, 1 pgs

Source type: Historical newspaper

ProQuest document ID: 429896821

Text Word Count 3131

Document URL: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=429896821&sid=11&Fmt=2&clientId=57820&RQT=309&VName=HNP

Abstract (Document Summary)

How many housekeepers, as they fill their lamps with kerosene oil or their summer stoves with gasoline, have any idea how these oils are made? And yet a few miles from Chicago, at Whiting, Ind., is the largest oil refinery in the world.