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Mining & the mines, 1913

318 stories in Murray's papers · page 15 of 16

Colliery Men Stop. Newcastle

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 13 November 1913 · page 3

Se[?]ham No. 2 Colliery is idle to-day, the miners having struck work in sympathy with two men who were sent home for filling dirt. Over three hundred men are…

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British Miners' Plans for the Future. Paris

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 14 November 1913 · page 2

Mr. Robert Smillie, vice president of the Maners' Federation of Great Britain, told an interviewer in Paris on Tuesday the British miners were satisfied with the…

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Mine Trouble at Broken Hill. Broken Hill

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Saturday 15 November 1913 · page 2

All men employed underground on both day and night shifts at Block 10 mine, Broken Hill, to-day refused to go on duty, owing to the dismissal of some other men…

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India Is Burial Ground for the World’s Gold

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 15 November 1913 · page 4

A royal commission has been appointed by Great Britain to discover what India does with all the gold it takes away from the rest of the world,…

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Six Miners Killed. St. Petersburg

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Monday 17 November 1913 · page 2

A fall of earth at the Arlyin copper mines killed six and Injured 29 workmen…

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Gold Ingots Disappear. Ok Continental Railway, Paris

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 19 November 1913 · page 2

A sensational robbery of gold has taken place on the railway between Constantinople and Paris. The ottoman Bank in Constantinople…

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Awful Tragedy of a Mine. the Senghenydd Disaster. 300 Bodies Recovered. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 19 November 1913 · page 2

Three hundred bodies have now been recovered at the scene of the Universal Colliery disaster at Senghenydd, in Wales. The exploring parties, who have…

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Welsh Colliery Disaster. £100,0000 SUBSCRIBED London, November 17

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 November 1913 · page 43

The Senghenyod Colliery Disaster Relief Eundhnow, amounts to £100,000 (Widows and dependents of more than, 300 miners are to be provided for.)…

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Gold Laden Steamer Icebound. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 21 November 1913 · page 2

A steamer with £45,000 worth of gold from the Klondyke sis lecbound in the Yukon River, 200 miles from the coast. Arrangements have been made to convey…

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French Miners' Strike. 25,000 Men Out. Paris

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 21 November 1913 · page 2

Over 25,000 miners went out on strike yesterday in the Pas de Culais Department in Northern France. The men aim at compelling the Senate to relinquish…

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Mine Disaster in U.S.A. [?] Bodies Recovered—20 Men Missing. New York

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 21 November 1913 · page 2

Sixteen bodies have been recovered from the No. 2 mine of the Alabama Fuel and Iron Company at Acton, in Alabama. Twenty other miners, who are known to…

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French Miners' Strike. 70,000 Men Out. Paris

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Tuesday 25 November 1913 · page 3

The number of French workers who are idle as the result of the strike of miners has now reached 70,000. The miners left their work last week in…

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Robbery at Mine, £100 Worth of Slimes Stolen

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 26 November 1913 · page 6

Between the hours of 7 p.m. on Saturday and 7 a.m. on Monday the filter house attached to the cyanide plant at the Oswald Gold Mines, Maiden, was entered by thieves, who…

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The French Miners. Granted 8-Hours Day. Paris

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Wednesday 26 November 1913 · page 5

The French Chamber of Deputies has passed the law fixing and eight-hours day for miners, with optional overtime, not to exceed 60 hours a year. The…

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What Coal Can Do

The Pastoral Times · Saturday 29 November 1913 · page 4

Does anyone realize the power of coal as a worker? A man was set to work to pump as hard as he could all day, and at the end of ten hours it…

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Miners Entombed. Little Hope of Rescue. San Francisco

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Thursday 4 December 1913 · page 3

The latest news from Cripple Crock, Colorado, states that bands of miners are making desperate efforts to rescue the night men entombed in the Golden Cycle…

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Squandered Gold

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 December 1913 · page 45

If you want to see what money can do you should pay a visit to that mile of millionaries' mansions, New York's Fifth Avenue, where £20,000,000 has been spent…

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Chancing Lead to Gold

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 5 December 1913 · page 21

Prof. Soddy makes the assertion boldly that is only a question of application to change lead in to gold. He says that while now we can work with electricity at…

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Welsh Railway Strike. Colliery and Shipping Idle. London

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 5 December 1913 · page 2

The strike of railwaymen in South Wales, which started on Monday at Llanelly, with the object of securing an eight hours day, is spreading…

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Finding Sunken Gold. Perils of Treasure Salving

The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times · Friday 5 December 1913 · page 4

Although the average person needs no telling that a diver carries his life in his bands every time he descends beneath the waves, few realise the…

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