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KEY CITY OIL COMPANY

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KEY CITY OIL COMPANY. Organized in the early 1900s by local investors, Key City Oil gave the first local competition to the STANDARD OIL COMPANY. It was eventually bought out by Standard. (1)

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1. "Dubuque Has 14 Oil Companies on its Roster, Telegraph-Herald and Times-Journal, January 13, 1935, p. 31