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 Post subject: A miner's story
PostPosted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 1:58 pm 
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Don't know how many of ya's have seen this, but I wanted to post the link just in case.

http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/gildeda ... sStory.cfm


The line from this that reads:
"It is nonsense to day I was not compelled to keep him, that I could have sent him to a hospital or the almshouse. We are American citizens and we don't go to hospitals and poorhouses."

Just blows me away, and tells the differences between then and now. Great read.

~Shana

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that is good shana... nice find! i like how he mentions the anthracite strike of 1902

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yea shana thats a good one!

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I'm glad I did something right this week.
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This is a good one too, "The Overthrow of the Molly Maguires"

http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/gildeda ... guires.cfm

That entire site is a bevy of great stuff.

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