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*Notes: 

1. 1. Frank Keeney and Fred Mooney would become allies in the coalfield struggles.  Frank described his friend as at times being “crazy mean”. *The above was Frank Keeney’s story corroborated by Mother Jones.  Fred actually becomes acquainted with Frank in 1912, however to keep the number of characters in the hundreds rather than the thousands we’re doing some amalgamations.
   2. In this comic, Frank is 21, Bessie, 16, and Fred 15.  Mother Jones is a few years younger than whatever age she was claiming at the time–she liked to round up. The year of the Keeney’s marriage varies in different records with the 1930 census placing it as late as 1905. They were likely either courting or newly married by the time of this story.
   3. I’ve read many of Jones’s speeches.  Haven’t found a report of this particular speech, only that it happened.  In the future, we’ll stick to quotes from her actual speech, but although we don’t have record of what was said, this speech matters, because it is the beginning of a friendship between Frank and Mother Jones.

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