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CYRUS / Oil at Gradyville! Cyrus unearths story of Gradyville's first oil well, hit in the '60s A report in which Cyrus reveals the latest oil news and gives a brief but terrifying "deja view" of the inner workings of his mind. Proceed with caution. Nerve pills strongly recommended. So here I sat early this morning, trying to read the local news while clutching my first cup of coffee for dear life, lest my grip slacken for an iota of an instant and I tumble back into the abyss of slumber. Finally, my rheumy old eyes pierced the curtain of darkness enough to make out this headline: Well now, thought I, in my befuddled state, I've heard something about this, so on I read: "During the past week a very fine quality of oil was brought out on the Moss farm near Gradyville. This is a well that was sunk during the sixties, and is now being reopened on account of conditions that justify its operation again . . ." The words slowly seeped into my still sleep-encrusted brain, and a sense of deja nu slowly took hold. Moss? Gradyville? Sixties? This wasn't news -- I'd already read it somewhere! Then the penny dropped. (Ever so slowly, rather like an elephant doing a backflip, but it dropped--heads up, as I recall.) In my first-cup stupor, I'd turned on the microfilm reader instead of the computer, and was reading "news" from the News--from April 17, 1918, to be exact. An article accompanying the one above--aided and abetted by several more cups of coffee strong enough to do Ed Waggener proud if not in--finally cut through to my fog-ensconced mind:
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