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Chicago's two million , chilled to the marrow by the buffeting raw winds from off Lake Michigan , grasped at anything which would burn and paid eight , ten , twelve , fourteen and then fifteen dollars a ton for their coal .
Chicago's two million , chilled to the marrow by the buffeting raw winds from off Lake Michigan , grasped at anything which would burn and paid eight , ten , twelve , fourteen and then fifteen dollars a ton for their coal .
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In starting the big campaign to capture Chicago's retail coal trade these men had the yards , the money and the men . The one thing needful was a policy - a complete understanding of what they must do and how to ...
In starting the big campaign to capture Chicago's retail coal trade these men had the yards , the money and the men . The one thing needful was a policy - a complete understanding of what they must do and how to ...
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Across country the Pawnee mine is busy producing coal for the Alton Railroad which Standard Oil Syndicate When the Sterling Coal Co. was to be crushed , miners with soiled faces , begrimed jumpers , lamps in their caps and tools in ...
Across country the Pawnee mine is busy producing coal for the Alton Railroad which Standard Oil Syndicate When the Sterling Coal Co. was to be crushed , miners with soiled faces , begrimed jumpers , lamps in their caps and tools in ...
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