Washington's First Military Mission Nearly Cost Him Life
Young Major George Washington and Christopher Gist embarked from Wills Creek in 1753 to relay orders to the French in the Ohio Valley. After a perilous river crossing that froze midstream, Washington fell overboard and nearly froze to death, with Gist frostbitten but saving him by keeping him moving through a harsh Allegheny winter. Their ordeal set the stage for Washington's future leadership.
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Murdering Town
Christopher Gist
Gist
Pennsylvania
England
France
Washington
Virginia
Ohio Valley
George Washington
Wills Creek
Cumberland
Butler County
George
Allegheny River
Allegheny
Maj
Jobless Figures Disputed
New York reports on unemployment trends amid uncertainties about the depth and timing of the recovery. It notes 1950 and 1954 comparisons, the Weeks five million prediction, and the debate over adjusted versus unadjusted rates with historical peaks in 1933 and 1941.
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New York
Secretary of Commerce
Weeks
Eisenhower
Commerce Department
Congress
President's Social Season Is Reduced By Eisenhower
A Feb 15 report notes President Eisenhower ended the 1958 social season with about 1,200 handshakes, down from past peak events. White House aides say social duties are trimmed as governance grows tougher, with fewer formal state dinners and receptions and adjusted entertaining norms.
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Washington
Eisenhower
White House
Jackson
Executive Mansion
Old Hickory
Lincoln
Theodore Roosevelt
James C. Hagerty
Truman
Churchill
Farm Leaders Gather in Raleigh to Tackle Farm Problem
Several hundred bankers farmers and farm leaders meet in Raleigh for the fourth annual Farm Credit Conference. Herschel B Newsom president of The National Grange tops a lineup of speakers including executives from Cannon Mills Holly Farms Poultry and Ralston Purina to discuss contract feeding vertical integration and remedies to ease the farm problem for North Carolina.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Herschel B. Newsom
National Grange
Newsom
Farm Credit
N. C. Bankers Association
N. C. State College
Harry B. Cald
Greensboro
State Grange
William E. Hays
Gerber Products Company
Sidney Holt
Cannon Mills
Kannapolis
Halbert M. Jones
Laurinburg
N. C. Cotton Manufacturing Association
Toad
American Cotton Manufacturers Institute
C. Fred Lovette
Holly Farms Poultry Company
North Wilkesboro
W. R. Montgomery
Ralston Purina Company
Atlanta
K. J. Shaw
McNair Farms
Scotland County
Harry H. Simpler
Australian teachers back decimal currency proposal
Speakers at the Australian Teachers Federation conference condemned the current currency and urged decimal reform. They endorsed a plan to set the ten shillings equal to one dollar and redefine the shilling and penny as fractions of the new dollar.
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Perth
Australia
Australian Teachers’ Federation
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Make of Hearing Aid
S. G. Hamlet
Gilbert Optical CO
W. Washington St
Mgr
High Point, N. C
Lila Moore Keen
Greensboro Road
Pointer Theatre
West Washington St
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