- 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
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- 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
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- 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@
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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 :)
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- 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/
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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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