Sunday, April 19, 2026
For the Oil Barons’ Ballroom —
Drill, Baby, Drill!
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Monday, July 1, 2024
Cargo Cult
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Wednesday, May 10, 2023
Puzzle Begun: Barnes Foundations
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Sunday, January 8, 2023
Oil City Snow
From AP News in The Derrick , Oil City, PA, today —
"Banks lived part of the year in Florida, and for a time
had a home in Jamaica, but he was essentially a man
of the North, with an old Puritan’s sense of consequences.
Snow fell often in his fiction . . . ." — Hillel Italie
Update of 3:33 PM ET —
From a link target in this journal on April 4, 2004 —
"Puzzle begun I write in the day's space . . . ."
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