Boots and Buddies voices on coal wage costs and profits
The speaker argues miners deserve a five cent wage increase per hour amid high operator profits. He notes labor costs per ton averaging 4.12 before the last raise and 4.83 now, while coal sells at 8.50 f. o. b. mine and reaches 15 to 16.50 in New York and Boston. He urges reopening low-cost coal fields near Pottsville and lowering freight rates, warning high-cost mines keep prices inflated. He highlights dangerous working conditions with one death every four hours and an injury every four minutes.
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New York
Boston
Interstate Commerce Commission
Pottsville
Sumter Should Grow Tobacco Says Lawson Stapleton
Lawson Stapleton tours Georgia tobacco centers Albany Camilla Pelham Bainbridge Thomasville Moultrie Quitman Valdosta Hahira Nashville Tifton Cairo reporting farmers satisfied with current prices. markets opening early with lower grade tobacco moving, warehouses costing around 30000 dollars and mostly owned by farmer stock groups. Stapleton urges low initial acreage four to five per farmer and predicts strong future prosperity across Sumter Lee Webster counties and beyond.
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Camilla
Pelham
Stapleton
Thomasville
Mr. Stapleton
South Georgia
Henry Allen
Wives blamed for insanity by Dr Hickson claim
A Dr Hickson lectured that wives are crazier than husbands due to lack of effort to use intelligence. He advocated modern women pursue worthwhile tasks to counter laziness. He dismisses harsh judgments and notes a method of treating patients with poetry recitation.
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