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Life on the Porch: The Powers Family and the Cost of Coal Town Living

Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Powers in front of their four-and-a-half-story three-room home. “These men here are nice talking men but they won’t put out any money, chin music, I say,” he stated in reference to the necessity for home repairs. Bell County, Kentucky’s Big Jim Coal Company, Big Jim Mine, Blanche…

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