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Dear Children, 

Have you been wondering why I hav'nt written in all this time? Well I've been "eel" and am still on the retired list. My old enemy colitis. Did I write you about the oil excitement in Inglewood We hav'nt been down there for about six weeks but from what we read in the Ing. papers & what we [[strikethrough]] read [[/strikethrough]] hear I guess the whole city & regions around are more or less ready for a lunatic asylum. They've "struck ile" & struck it rich apparently & it seems to be the opinion of geologists & the "doodle bug" men & oil companies that Inglewood is over a rich Lake of oil. The first well that has been brought in, in the city is a very fine well & the people in on that lease will be millionaires which is enough to make a lunatic out of anyone & others are crazy expecting they will get theirs next. We don't know yet whether we will be [[strikethrough]] an [[/strikethrough]] insane millionaires or just plain crazy without the money But we hope with the three holdings we have two in Lennox & one in Inglewood that we'll come in on something good even if it does not amount into millions. I'll promise you a share in it if we strike it right. An oil field seems

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Inglewood and Lennox: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Inglewood+California/Lennox+California/@33.9481393,-118.3711216,14z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x80c2b656274bdd8d:0x727b30fdcae3170!2m2!1d-118.3531311!2d33.9616801!1m5!1m1!1s0x80c2b6f27ee897d5:0xb272dc7b7a3a75f5!2m2!1d-118.3525752!2d33.9380695?hl=en