Stock Exchange probes rumor on LBJ health
The New York Stock Exchange confirmed a formal investigation into rumors about President Johnsons health that unsettled markets on June 9. Officials traced the price drop to speculative short selling and examined messages over private wires at member firms. The Dow Jones average slid 9.21 to 879.84 as about $5 billion in market value evaporated.
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Daily Almanac June 24, 1965 history and facts
On this day in history Henry Ward Beecher, born in 1813, is noted. The entry marks June 24 as the 17th day of 1965 with 190 to follow, describes the moon approaching new phase and lists Saturn as the morning star and Venus and Mars as evening stars. It also recalls 1497 explorer John Cabot.
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Lawrence County FFA members win prizes at state conference
Lawrence County boys from Laurel High School Willard McKnight Robert Stoner and Floyd Fobes plus Ed Wilson and others from Union High School and New Wilmington High School earned prizes in land judging livestock forestry and dairy poultry at the Pennsylvania State University state FFA conference. A separate note: a Summer Institute in Mineralogy Geochemistry and Petrology for College Teachers of Geology will be held at Penn State June 28 to August 7 under NSF support. First ironworks in the U.S. was founded at Sagus Massachusetts 300 years ago.
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