Category:
Mining
Mining
Miss Anthracite
No chance of this beauty queen title being reinstated in today's, ahem, "climate."I find a reference to Miss Anthracite as early as 1928.
A few years later, there was a controversy.
She soldiered on through the 1940s.
The fifties saw no lack of interest in the contest.
The seventies certainly saw a stunning winner. But after that references peter out, as the romance of coal tapers off.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Nov 30, 2022 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Twentieth Century, Mining
Town Founded by a Jackass
It was Noah Kellogg's donkey that alerted the prospector to a mountain outcropping of galena, a lead ore often containing silver. This miraculous moment would attract a rough-and-tumble-type crowd to dig up and refine the resources below. What this visually stunning Silver Valley town is today — through mining ups and downs, population decline and industry changes — is just as the town motto cheekily states: "Founded by a jackass and inhabited by his descendants."
Article on the current state of the place.
Their Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Feb 15, 2022 -
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Category: Animals, Government, Humor, Regionalism, Mining
The Coal Mining Daughter
I would have been proud to shake Ida Mae Stull's hand--except that she might have crushed mine!
Original article here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Mar 07, 2013 -
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Category: Feminism, Law, 1930s, Women, Mining
Follies of the Mad Men #138
Is that a hydraulic slurry mining hose in your pants, or do you just work here?
Posted By: Paul - Sat Apr 23, 2011 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, 1940s, Genitals, Mining
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