Word: coals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...miners, maddened by labor grievances in the coal fields of southeastern Ohio, filled a mine-car with coal, doused it thoroughly with kerosene, ignited it, started it down the tracks of an inclined shaft in which, at the end of its run, it fired the unmined coal. That fire, started on the property of Columbus' Hocking Coal & Mine Co., has burned on underground ever since. By last week it had burned a subterranean area of twelve square miles...
...carbon monoxide seeping through from the fiery shafts. Occupants of twelve houses" near New Straitsville were evacuated when the foundations buckled. The town's $80,000 schoolhouse is considered in danger. A farmer named Rush dug roasted potatoes out of his ruined garden. Twelve million tons of coal have been destroyed, and 28,000,000 more lie along the paths of the fire's slow advance. Attempts have been made to head off the fire by sinking cement walls, by forcing steam underground, by diverting a creek into a shaft. All failed...
...Under the technical surveillance of the U. S. Bureau of Mines and Ohio State engineers, one 600-ft. tunnel barrier and two mile-long barricades, part tunnel and part opencut, will be laid down. Holes will be filled with sludge, shafts and cavities sealed to cut off air. Incidental coal dug out during the operations will be distributed gratis to those who need...
...peddler, whose name was Hannah Parmalee and who was obviously a cultivated woman beneath her dowdy exterior, launched a series of domestic reforms that saved the harassed Ward family. She cleaned out the basement and sold the unused furniture for $39. She found a cheaper way of buying coal. She persuaded little Wallie Ward to take his castor oil. (She put it in front of him, told him how much his mother loved him, and walked away. When she came back, he had taken it.) She jolted dreamy Professor Paul Ward out of his many irresponsibilities, until he soon became...
Invented and made by one-time Dartmouth professor F. E. Thayer (who works in a shop so small out photographer had to take pictures of the houses on Mr. Thayer's lawn), ant houses are made in all designs from submarines to coal mines, a few, of which are shown here...