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1. Re: [BRHSlist] Green Marked Coal (score: 1)
Author: "Myron & Lois Dudenbostel" <myroloi@e...>
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 08:21:51 -0600
Jon: I am from southern Illinois and worked in and around the coal mines since I was 19. In 1955 I would been about 8 years old. We burned coal, if you went to the mine to get it you would back a tru
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-03/msg00002.html (11,226 bytes)

2. Re: [BRHSlist] Green Marked Coal (score: 1)
Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@y...>
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 08:04:53 -0800 (PST)
55 Lb.= 1 bushel of coal. The oldtime retail yards in the big cities sold coal by the bushel. They weighed it and converted the weight into bushels. It was just like they do at grain elevators. The c
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-03/msg00005.html (13,092 bytes)

3. Re: [BRHSlist] Green Marked Coal (score: 1)
Author: "Myron & Lois Dudenbostel" <myroloi@e...>
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 10:39:28 -0600
Thanks John now I know what a bushel of coal is! Which Old Ben Mine did you work in? And did they mine #6 or #5 coal vain or both? Myron -- Original Message -- From: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-03/msg00006.html (8,112 bytes)

4. Re: [BRHSlist] Green Marked Coal (score: 1)
Author: "John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@y...>
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 10:46:06 -0800 (PST)
I worked @ #21,#24,#25,#26 plus the Illinois Division Office. We worked the #6 seam, but we did an experimental development in the #5 seam @ Mine #24, which was not a success. John -- Myron & Lois Du
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-03/msg00008.html (8,703 bytes)

5. Re: [BRHSlist] Green Marked Coal (score: 1)
Author: "Walter Ohrnell" <wohrnell@s...>
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 17:04:38 -0600
I remember when growing up in Chicago the neighbors 2 doors from us used coal to heat. The coal truck would pull up out front and the driver & helper would carry what looked like canvas sacks over th
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-03/msg00010.html (9,440 bytes)

6. Re: [BRHSlist] Green Marked Coal (score: 1)
Author: cttnghmrl@a...
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 19:37:04 EST
I grew up in the 1940s in Peoria. There were several coal dealers in town, sometimes combined with a lumber yard. Our house was heated by a coal furnace with a stoker. I had to fill the stoker at lea
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-03/msg00011.html (8,192 bytes)

7. Re: [BRHSlist] Green Marked Coal (score: 1)
Author: "Myron & Lois Dudenbostel" <myroloi@e...>
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 18:49:39 -0600
Ah......... for the good old day of heating the house with coal! Myron -- Original Message -- From: "Walter Ohrnell" <wohrnell@s...> To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 5:04
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-03/msg00013.html (10,369 bytes)

8. Re: [BRHSlist] Green Marked Coal (score: 1)
Author: "Bob Weber" <eng95@a...>
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 20:17:28 -0800
You are a glutton for punishment :)
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-03/msg00015.html (8,170 bytes)

9. Re: [BRHSlist] Green Marked Coal (score: 1)
Author: PSHedgpeth@a...
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 17:17:30 EST
WEll Listers and John M. To pharaphrase Mark Twain...I continue to be amazed at the amount of information that can be obtained with such a small investment of fact. I've appreciated all of the discus
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-03/msg00042.html (10,482 bytes)

10. Fw: [BRHSlist] Green Marked Coal (score: 1)
Author: "Steven Holding" <s.holding@c...>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 13:10:30 -0600
trimming only One coal we small keep wound to Coal pals a yard the again the http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-03/msg00066.html (14,778 bytes)

11. Re: [BRHSlist] Green Marked Coal (score: 1)
Author: "Ralph W. Brown, Jr." <cbq682@g...>
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 20:12:40 -0600
Pete, I'm 25 years old and I knew what the metal doors were for. . .anyway, the first house I lived in had a concrete sidewalk that ran down the block. At our driveway there were two iron strips that
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-03/msg00074.html (11,640 bytes)

12. Re: [BRHSlist] Green Marked Coal (score: 1)
Author: "Russell Strodtz" <vlbg@e...>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 07:45:25 -0600
Ralph, There was a Masonic Children Home on 47th Street in La Grange. As was the practice with most large, older buildings they had a detached steam plant for heat. The small building was right along
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-03/msg00078.html (13,715 bytes)

13. Re: [BRHSlist] Green Marked Coal (score: 1)
Author: "Jon Bratt" <jkbratt@w...>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 23:18:27 -0600
Was this "Green marked coal" sold as home heating fuel and in what region of the country? Would there be competing coal brands in the same area as gasoline is today? Or was it more like LP fuel is to
/archives/BRHSLIST/2003-02/msg00349.html (7,322 bytes)


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