Mining engineer Max Fredericks gave a prediction of a bright future for the anthracite industry the day before the stock market collapsed.
“Due for a comeback?” – An address on the Coal Region on eve of Great Depression

Mining engineer Max Fredericks gave a prediction of a bright future for the anthracite industry the day before the stock market collapsed.
In May 1929, some of the anthracite industry believed mining was about to make a comeback. They were wrong.
A reporter for the Hazleton Plain Speaker interview bootleggers to get a scoop on the booze situation in 1926.