Struggle in Mingo County Coal War Over Union Labor
The United Mine Workers push to organize 5000 miners in Mingo County West Virginia sparks deadly clashes. About a dozen killed as dispute centers on union recognition and use of private detectives around mines amid eviction and tent colonies along Tug River.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Williamson
W. Va
United Mine Workers
Mingo County
Charles F. Keeney
George Bousewine
Coal Operators’ Association of
Kanawha
Mingo
Kentucky
Tug River
West Virginia
Bordertown
Mingo County Court House
United States Mine
Keeney
Charleston
Matewan
Trailsend a Home Fit for Ohio Governor Cox in Dayton Area
A Byron Cox portrait recalls the birth in Jacksonburg Butler County Ohio on March 31 1870 and presents Trailsend Governor Cox’s palatial country home perched above the Miami Valley near Dayton. The scene shows the front door through woods on a sixty acre plot as locals visitors and politicians gather to welcome a favorite son and presidential nominee.
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Jacksonburg
Butler County
Ohio
Jim” Cox
Miami Valley
Dayton
Cox
Farm for sale lands from 15 to 300 acres
Melton and Lehr advertise farms for sale with loan options, inviting buyers tired of renting to purchase. The terse notice notes Terre Haute divorce case where Fre mont Lewis obtained a divorce after Frances Lewis left two weeks into marriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melton & Lehr
Terre Haute
Frances Lewis
Fremont Lewis
Fremont
Yellowstone Park Aids Elk and Other Wildlife Relocations
Officials report rising success in relocating bison elk bear and beaver from Yellowstone to public parks and state preserves to rebuild Native American game. Elk shipments include Minneapolis Salt Lake City and New Jersey Palisades Park among others with careful capture and transport methods.
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Yellowstone Park
Wryo
Yellowstone National Park
National Park Service
Yellowstone
Minneapolis
St. Louis
Allentown
Sonora Experiment Station
Sonora
Tex
Pirie
South Dakota
Thomas P. Holts Final Word to the Voters
Ada Oklahoma July 28 1930 Thomas P Holt seeks the county judge seat urging voters to value his 16 years as a lawyer and commitment to equal justice for all promising to run a clean campaign and serve all citizens. He asks support for the August 3 election and notes his single platform of duty over private matters.
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Ada
Oklahoma
Pontotoc
Tudee
Scuigman
Thomas P. Holt
Beaver driven into doorway trap at doorway
The house drives the beaver out and straight into a trap placed across the doorway.
Mills wife killed then kills self after quarrel in Muskogee
Mose C. Courtney a drug store employee killed his 20 year old wife in their Muskogee apartment and then drank poison, with their twenty month old baby asleep in an adjoining room. Courtney died, leaving a note about conscience.
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Mills
The
Assocated Press
Muskogee
Mose
C. Courtney
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Governor Cox
E. A. Bushnell
Platt National Park
Bart Smith
Dame Fashion
Ghee
California
Fresno
Bakersfield
Overland
New York
San Francisco
Emanuel—Qverland CO
East Main
Scott Ferris
Main and
Broadway
Pontotoc County
Luther Harrison
Robert Wimbish
Orel Busby
Clay Jones
Roff
Charles L. Orr
Brundridge
ADA Band
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