The Fantabulous Oil Fields of H.C. Dickey

A lawyer friend of mine found this document while going through the estate paperwork of a client who recently passed. The document is from 1927 and is trying to sell an investment opportunity in a oil field run by a Mr. H.C. Dickey, which could be one of the best names ever created. There is a lot of olde timey language in the document, but the thing I found most interesting is the excessive use of caps. I like to think that back when this was written almost 100 years ago, writing in all caps was a new innovation that actually created a sense of urgency in the reader, instead of being incredibly annoying or a sign of frustration and anger like it does today.

CLICK THE DOCUMENT TO EMBIGGEN (See, you feel real urgency, don't you?)

 

Daniel Plainview would be proud. Or he would be angry and

shoot H.C. Dickey in the head with a freaking Darringer.

Man, that's cold blooded.