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Miners Payroll Reflects 46 Nationalities in Pittsburgh Area
A Miners' Benefit Society tally shows 6 2384 miners on the rolls in the Charleroi district distributed among 46 nationalities. Belgians Italians Algerians Moroccans Hollanders Poles French Americans and one each of Abyssinia Guinea Persia the Sudan Canada Finland Mexico Senegal Turkey and Uruguay are listed. A separate item recalls a man dropping three $100 bills as a newspaper buyer chased by a breeze, the money lost beyond recovery.
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Pittsburgh
Miners’ Benefit Society of
Charleroi
Belgium
Abyssinia
Guinea
Persia
Sudan
Canada
Finland
Mexico
Senegal
Turkey
Uruguay