Back in 1923 ...

Published: August 13, 2010

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- At North Franklin Colliery near Trevorton, mine cars that had just completed a trip became uncoupled. They ran loose and crushed 66-year-old Joseph Nediskie to death.

- President Warren D. Harding had died in office and was succeeded by his vice president, Calvin Coolidge. Shamokin businessman Jere Zimmerman presented a large picture of the late president to the local chapter of the American Legion.

- At the Victoria, the main feature was a documentary called "The Last Days of President Harding." Harding had a scandal-plagued administration and his successor was determined to avoid those mistakes, one of which was said to be indecision. Coolidge told mine workers that if they walked out as scheduled the first day of September, the government would take over operation of the mines.

- In Kemmererer, Wyo., 102 miners died in a cave-in and fire in one of the worst coal mine disasters ever.

- John P. Ryguard addressed the Shamokin Rotary on the topic "Blue Sky Stocks," with the crash of the stock market still six years away.

- At Malarky's Temple of Music on Independence Street in Shamokin, the owners were anticipating a coal strike. In a full page advertisement in the local paper, Malarkey's offered a special deal to miners. They discounted one of their better player pianos to $340 and a miner could have it delivered for $10 down and payments of a $1.75 a week.

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