A FAMILY OF COINCIDENCES
On Glade Mountain, W. Va., resides perhaps the most curious family in the country. It is a family of coincidences. The father and mother were married on the 14th day of October; they have nine children, all of whom were born on the 14th of October; five of the children are dead, and all five of them ceased to breathe on the 14th day of October. The name of the head of the family is Joshua Franklin. He says he was a confederate soldier; that he was captured twice by the United States soldiers, and that he lost two brothers in the war, and that all four of these mishaps or misfortunes of war occurred on the memorable 14th of October. In the neighborhood the Franklin family is regarded with superstition, and not a human being can be prevailed to stay either in the house or on the premises on either day or night of the 14th of October - Chicago Herald.
[Gettysburg Compiler, March 12, 1889, Page 1, Submitted by Vicki Hartman]

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Acquaint President with Sufferings of Blacklisted Miners
Widow and Two Little Girls Lead Delegation That Appears Nervous in Presence of Harding
Washington, Jan. 16 – The sufferings of the blacklisted union miners of West Virginia were placed before President Harding today by a delegation led by a woman and her two little girls.
Mrs. Alice Underwood, of Mabscott, W. Va., a widow, and the children, Hallie, aged 12, and Dorothy, 10, shabbily attired and visibly nervous in the presence of the president, told Harding the suffering imposed by blacklisting in the coal fields. The New River Coal company has served notice of eviction, effective this Wednesday, Mrs. Underwood said. Others told Harding that several hundred miners are to be evicted. The miners and their families are practically penniless, having been out of work for several months, the committee said. Hundreds of men, women and children are clothed in rags, scores are without shoes and most of the children cannot attend school because they lack clothing, Harding was told.
So wide is the influence of the coal companies that blacklisted men cannot secure jobs in any other line of work, even including county and state highway construction work, the committee said.
(The Daily Messenger. Canandaigua, NY. Jan 16, 1922 - Submitted by Melissa Rodriguez)

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From "The Messenger" (Beckley, WV) April 1, 1910:
C.W. Revercomb of Clifton Forge, Va, arrived in the city yesterday to look after his business interests in this section
M.C. Brackman has returned form spending a few days at his former home in Greenbriar county.
O.C. Jamison was a business visitor here yesterday from Ronceverte.
G. Cowherd is here from Baltimore calling on his business friends
R.M. Goddard is a business visitor here from Charleston
L.K. Moses is a business visitor here from Staunton, Va.
[sub. by K. Torp]

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