Apart from the cultural backlash, coal was a pain to light. Anthracite stoves often required multiple attempts to start the flame and demanded constant fiddling with a poker. An 1827 guide for ...

Anthracite coal being a much nore dense material ... they are apt to be troublesome whenthere is too \ great draft. A coal stove or furnace should therefore be so | constructed that its draft ...

KANSAS — Saying it plans to become a major producer of anthracite, a Mid-Western company has purchased a Branch Twp. coal company. Guess & Co, announced this week that it bought the 56-acre ...