Dramatic Oil Company

[Gene C]

Laurie, please let me know too!

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(10-02-2012 09:23 AM)Rob Wick Wrote:  One of the last things Ida Tarbell tried to publish was a story about John Wilkes Booth and the Dramatic Oil Company which he formed along with John Ellsler and Thomas Mears.

By the way, Tarbell's article "A Neglected Episode in the History of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln" appears to have been rejected by the New York Times in 1941. By this point, Tarbell was well past her prime and in three years, would die at the age of 86. Her papers show that article, plus two others, both of which total 80 pages on Booth.

Is any of this on line?