Word: minerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course of his financial manipulations Clark came into possession of the indigent Butte Miner. To his surprise and delight he found it a handy weapon for belaboring Marcus Daly. Daly endured the attacks until 1889, then vowed to put his enemy in his place...
...Anaconda, "the best newspaper that can be made." Editor Durston imported two of his associates from the Syracuse Standard and set to work. In time the new paper attained some 20,000 circulation (practically the saturation point for the State) mostly in Butte, where it gave Clark's Miner a sound thrashing. A special "paper train'' of Daly's own Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railroad would rush it there, hot off the press...
Lest you forget I tell the story: March 15, 1919, a country school near Center, N. Dak. was also dismissed early because of a blizzard. Hazel Miner, schoolgirl, started home with her two little brothers, in a buggy. It also was upset. Useless to attempt walking, she prepared shelter under the upset buggy, wrapped the two brothers in the blankets. Finally in the dead of night spread her overcoat and her- self over them. When rescued next afternoon, two healthy little boys were found; over them the sister. They did not know she was frozen. PETER D. HOWARD...
Impressed, the Senate committee forwarded a transcript of the Scott testimony to the Red Cross. Next day Miner Scott repeated his story in person at Red Cross headquarters. There he was told by Vice Chairman James L. Fieser that Red Cross policy is against relief for unemployment growing out of industrial troubles, that Red Cross relief is reserved for natural disasters...
Faustin Wirkus, son of a Polish miner in Pennsylvania, wanted to see more of the world. He decided when he was eleven to enlist in the Marines. When he did, he was sent to Haiti. He missed the War because of a compound fracture of the arm, but had plenty of fighting against Haitian bandits, rose to be a Marine sergeant with rank of lieutenant in the native gendarmerie. A crack shot, he personally potted many a Caco (bandit), but in off hours he made friends with the peaceful natives, did many queer, unsoldierly things, such as acting as emergency...