Word: coal
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Attention is called to the new coal notice on the bulletin board of the Co-operative Society...
Reports from Pittsburg, Pa., state that the coal miners' strike is spreading...
...general strike of coal miners in Ohio is imminent...
...treasurer's checks. By observing this method of immediate payments, and by remembering that no goods of any value are carried in stock, that none are sold or delivered without cash in hand, that all second-hand goods deposited for sale are at owners' risk, that all coal ordered is paid for in advance, and that the society depends - not on its commission, but on its membership fees - for its support, it will be made clear that no loss can accrue to any one from the society's failure, and that the only things which can cause its failure...
...course was from the bridge below the boat house to Richardson's coal wharf, a distance of about one-quarter of a mile. Bryant's crew took the inside position, with Hammond and Burch in the middle and Storrow on the outside. At the word "go," all four of the crews got away well together, and came up all in a bunch. When the lower end of the float in front of the boat house was reached, Storrow had a lead of not more than six feet over Hammond, with Burch and Bryant well up to the leaders. Before...