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Explore this record →Ella Brock Joins the Telephone Office
Later accounts place Ella Brock's arrival as a Shamokin telephone operator in 1883 and describe the change it made to the office's work.
Shamokin Stories collection
Stories
Accounts of Shamokin’s people, industries, neighborhoods, institutions, and public life.
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Gunfire at the Depots
A workers’ meeting, depot gunfire and months of hardship: the unrest of 1877 followed Shamokin families long after the first dispatches.
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John Mitchell's Appeal to Shamokin Strikers
A contemporary account of an October 1900 Shamokin address described Mitchell asking miners to decide the strike's future through their delegates.
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Relief Orders While the Strike Funds Were Awaited
A July 1902 Shamokin dispatch described local unions continuing aid while an assessment from bituminous miners was still expected.
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Three Installments for the Ten Percent
A March 1903 report described coal operators meeting in Shamokin and agreeing on an installment schedule for the ten-percent amount due.
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When the Coal Strike Interrupted Daytime Light
October 1900 reports described a coal shortage that stopped daytime incandescent service and threatened further curtailment at night.
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When the Coal Strike Reached the Lights
The strikes of 1900 and 1902 reached public meetings, electric service and household relief in Shamokin—connected events, but not one interchangeable strike.
Labor & working livesExplore this record →Women at Work in Turn-of-the-Century Shamokin
Teachers, dressmakers, milliners, saleswomen, proprietors, and other named workers make women's paid and independent work visible in Shamokin's volumes, even when the record remains incomplete.