Showing posts with label Coal Mining. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Coal Mining. Show all posts
Monday, January 14, 2013

More on Gladstone Mine

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Daily Iowegian - 22 August 2006 --------------------------- Letter to the Editor To the editor:   We always enjoy Bill Heusinkveld...

Massa knows "facts and figures" of coal mining

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Ad-Express/Iowegian- 26 February 1999 ------------------------------------- By Ethel Lira, Contributing Writer   Frank Massa is one o...
Sunday, January 13, 2013

Massa Recalls Coal Mine Days

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Ad-Express/Daily Iowegian - 24 September 1993 ---------------------------------------- Industry employed more than 10,000 men  in cou...
Saturday, January 12, 2013

Big Doings in Coal Circles in the Jerome Territory

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Semi=Weekly Iowegian - 28 February 1913 -------------------------------- Big Joe People Get Big Four and New Mine Will Have 200 Men E...
Thursday, July 12, 2012

In the Good Old Days When Coal was King

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Centerville Daily Iowegian - 8 February 2003 ------------------------------- By Ethel Lira, Correspondent   The Purdy Mine that was l...
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Big Jim Mine, Named for Shoe Size

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The Seymour Herald - 23 May 1957 ------------------------------- By Richard Gilbert and Tom Morrow   The “Big Jim” coal mine had its beginni...
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Sunday, January 9, 2011

Working in a Coal Mine

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Newsletter of the Wayne County Historical Society December 2010 ---------------------------------------- By Brenda DeVore   One of the inter...
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Coal Consolidation - The Mystic Coal Field - 1895

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Iowegian - April 1895 --------------------   Word was given out on Saturday that all the coal mines on the Milwaukee road from Darbyville to...
Friday, March 6, 2009

Mine Was Burned -- Big Loss for Seymour and the Sunshine Mine by Fire

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Semi-Weekly Iowegian - 20 August 1909 ---------------------------   Seymour, Aug. 20 -- Scores of miners employed at the Sunshine mine owne...
Thursday, March 5, 2009

Bad Clash Is Feared - Mine Owners Want Militia

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The Minneapolis Journal - 9 April 1895 ---------------------------------- For the Miners Intend to Prevent  Outside Workmen from Going In  ...

Miners Strike -- One Thousand Employees of Thirty Mines Resist a Reduction

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Morning World-Herald of Omaha NE - 3 October 1896 ---------------------------------   Ottawa, IA, Oct. 2 -- A thousand miners in the Appano...
Sunday, February 22, 2009

The Gladstone Coal Mine

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The Daily Iowegian - 10 August 2006 By Bill Heusinkveld - Correspondent --------------------------------------    The settlement of Ma rsde...
Wednesday, February 11, 2009

2500 Men Employed at Coal Mines

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Twenty-five Hundred Men Employed at Mines Almost 900,000 Tons Taken Out Last Year Most Mines in Any County Seventy Here and Mine Inspector S...
Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Refuses to Put Troops in Iowa Coal Fields

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  From the New York Times of 27 August 1927: Governor Hammill Tells Owners and Miners  to End Trouble and Keep the Law.   Des Moines, Iowa,...

Wage Trouble in Iowa Mines

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  From the New York Times of 2 October 1896:   Ottumwa, Iowa, Oct. 1 -- The mines of the Appanoose District are closed and work is stopped....
Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Memories of Jerome, Iowa - Part IX - Life of the Miners

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  During the time when the mines were in full swing, the miner's and his families lives were practically ruled by the mine whistle.  At ...

Memories of Jerome, Iowa - Part VI - Railroads and Coal Mines

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  In 1886 the Chicago and Milwaukee railroad purchased right-of-way through Lincoln township for construction of a road.  In the early part...
Monday, November 10, 2008

The Last Pony Mine

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Iowa State University produced the documentary  The Last Pony Mine which received a CINE Golden Eagle Award.  The description provided  on t...