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...Weidle '99, of Mahanoy City, Pa., is a psychology concentrator living in Quincy House. A football player and an artist, he designs all his own tattoos and plans to get even more. David Letterman fans may recognize him from an appearance on "Stupid Human Tricks...
...Author Arthur Lewis, a onetime newsman who wrote a lively 1963 biography of Millionairess Hetty Green, The Day They Shook the Plum Tree, the story of the Molly Maguires was clearly a labor of love. Lewis comes from Mahanoy City in the heart of the coal fields, where the old wounds are still raw. He notes approvingly that all condemned Molly Maguires died gamely and with style. Two carried red roses to the scaffold. Another joked cheerfully as his hair was cut just before his execution: "Make it good, Al," he told the barber, "or you're liable...
...sandstone kind that a man could carry under one arm : Lizzie Yoh, Theodosia Garrison, Phrany Luck-enbill, Lutie Markle, Jake Loy. Palmyra Scarlett, Seranus Mast. They live in towns like Jacob's and Unionville in Pennsylvania's Vale of Union, or up in the mining patches at Mahanoy near the Tulpehocken Trail. The prose is as homely as a bag of snitz. Some people get their dutch up, others are as meek as Moses. They eat victuals, marry helpmeets, and get around on shanks' mare. They don't like high muckety mucks. The little folks...
...overalls and a head-lamped miner's cap, Governor Earle inspected a few of the thousands of bootleg holes and abandoned mines from which 20,000 men and boys are openly stealing some $32,000,000 worth of anthracite coal per year from company-owned lands. In Pottsville, Mahanoy City and Shamokin he conferred with citizens and law officers whose frank acquiescence has made the gigantic theft possible (TIME, July...
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