Old King Coal(1916)
A Gripping Episode of the Methods Used by the Coal Trust to Keep Up the Price of this Necessary Commodity.
Stone assures Weisner, head of the Coal Trust, that Larnigan will never start for Pennsylvania. Weisner is skeptical and informs Stone that if he does go he may be killed, as a strike is in progress. Weisner, a little later in Maxwell's home repeats the statement of it being an easy matter to kill Tom should be come to the coal country. Dorothy Maxwell and Kitty Rockford overhear the conversation. They decide to go to the coal country and lend their aid to Tom. 8th chapter in the Graft serial.
Movie: Old King Coal
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Mrs. Larnigan
Roger Maxwell
Dunn
Ben Travers
Jack Stevens
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Stone assures Weisner, head of the Coal Trust, that Larnigan will never start for Pennsylvania. Weisner is skeptical and informs Stone that if he does go he may be killed, as a strike is in progress. Weisner, a little later in Maxwell's home repeats the statement of it being an easy matter to kill Tom should be come to the coal country. Dorothy Maxwell and Kitty Rockford overhear the conversation. They decide to go to the coal country and lend their aid to Tom. 8th chapter in the Graft serial.
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1916-01-29
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A Gripping Episode of the Methods Used by the Coal Trust to Keep Up the Price of this Necessary Commodity.
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