Coal Miners On Vacation Over
Miners return from vacation as schedules resume at the mining site. Plant officials say production will restart after a brief break.
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Newspaper
Casper Press
Location
Casper, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1910
Page
2
Miners return from vacation as schedules resume at the mining site. Plant officials say production will restart after a brief break.
In Indianapolis many miners observe the eight hour day with 300000 men in bituminous coal mines facing enforced idleness as two year wage contracts expire at midnight across several states.
Miners quit at 3,000 of 76,000 workers demanding a 6.55 percent raise per ton for screened coal and equivalent hike for run of mine coal. UMWA president Thomas L. Lewis says settlement talks are set and not a strike, with progress expected within weeks, except possibly Winds and western Pennsylvania.
More than 3,000 members of the United Mine Workers of America in District No. 15 covering northern Colorado coal fields have ceased work following a decision by the union's executive board at its headquarters meeting.
Trinidad and Walsenburg coal districts show no strike action and no word of a sympathetic stoppage from the Western Federation of Miners. Officials say normal output remains safe at about 7,000,000 tons for Trinidad Walsenburg and 3,000,000 tons for the New Mexico district.
A brief newsroom exchange notes that the Cleveland Leader only prints news items and rejects non-news content. The dialogue clarifies editorial scope for readers and staff.
A brief feature highlights a witty exchange from a Houston Post piece. The fragment showcases repartee between two men with the elder one finally stating he cannot help the other due to his own thin funds.
Mrs. Russell Boge announces statewide efforts to convert her millions into loans for the poor. A Grand Junction High School fight led to suspensions for 100 students. Colorado Telephone Co will coordinate frost signal distribution to western slope fruit growers. Merino voters approve a new school house in a unanimous special election. Pueblo shippers discuss freight with Rio Grande General Manager Clarke. NM M Van Tot plane Colorado dies at Burkky.
Senator Guggenheim pushes an amendment to raise from 25 to 50 percent the share of forest reserve receipts paid to states for roads and schools. Colorado would gain about $25,000 annually, funding highways and schools while expanding national forest boundaries and impacting sixty counties.
Rev. Dr. Charles Townsend of Orange shared a humorous tale at the Park Presbyterian Church Men’s club banquet recounting Adam asking Eve where she found the ingredients for his meal. Eve explains the lettuce came from a bush in the yard and Adam laments mispronounced its origin, a joke ending with Eve’s daughters’ name corruption.
A 1909 letter from John Lenson of Atchison Kan describes a six month battle with infant eczema. He credits Cullcura Remedies for curing his seven week old son and notes the condition has not returned in a year and a half. The item also mentions a petty crime scene where a man named Murphy is forced to spell a miswritten name after a peddling without license charge.
In a tense exchange Mr Jones condemns a rival as a vindictive cuss. A friend offers water to rinse a perceived insult while Jones insists on letting the offender walk free. The fragment hints at a public quarrel and social dynamics in a saloon setting.
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