Almanack Predicts Wet Weather Across Next Year
The 1958 Hagerstown Almanack, in its 161st year, forecasts more rain and cold across the region with many days of precipitation and fewer fair days from January through December. It notes weather conjectures for each day, provides lunar data, and includes dairy, livestock, and farm advice.
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Hagerstown
Hagerstown Town
Maryland
Almanack
J. Gruber Almanack Co
Pittsburgh
Phila
Delphia
Harrisburg
Richmond
Theodore Roosevelt
Solving the Presidential Disability Question
James Marlow explains how Eisenhower's disability succession plan faces long odds and Congress inaction. The piece surveys competing ideas from vice presidential rule to cabinet or commissions and notes constitutional ambiguity and repeated delays as Congress debates remedies.
Eisenhower proposes cabinet based disability rule
The text reports Eisenhower's proposal to Congress that in case of presidential disability the vice president should act as president with a Cabinet majority approval until recovery. Hoover counters, suggesting Cabinet alone decide, Keating backs a 10 member bipartisan commission including Congress judiciary and Cabinet with the vice president as a rotating member.
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Supreme Court
Eisenhower
Justine
Hoover
Rep
Keating
New York
House Judiciary Committee
Judiciary
26 Girl Scouts Earn Skating Badges at Frederick Roller Rink
Twenty six Girl Scouts from nine troops earned Skating Badges at the Frederick Roller Rink on a Saturday session arranged by James A. Rice. The program followed Nanopeal Girl Scout requirements and ran since July with eight requirements per scout. Age range was 10 to 15 years.
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Frederick
James A. Rice
Nanopeal
Girl Scouts
Rice
Renitent resolve in a boy amid parental pressure
Old dictionary excerpt defines renitent as persistently opposed. It notes common mispronunciations and misspellings while urging daily vocabulary growth. The passage discusses mutual relations and a dominant maternal influence on the boy's behavior.
Gormoan English Lesson Or WT Q And A Roundup
A garbled Q and A style piece covers glacier speed in inches per day and Rocky Marciano's pro fights. It notes James K. Polk as only elected president from the House and lists beaver diets and territory area figures.
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House of Representatives
James K. Polk
Hawaii
Wreck blocks PA tracks as 34 coal cars derail
In Waynesboro Pennsylvania two work crews cleared wreckage from a derailment that halted Pennsylvania railroad tracks between Hagerstown Maryland and Shippensburg Pennsylvania. The PRR expected delays into late today as detours used Western Maryland Railroad track between the communities. No injuries reported though several hundred feet of track were torn up. Officials could not determine the cause until tracks were cleared. The wreck involved 34 coal cars and two diesel engines.
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Waynesboro
Pennsylvania Railroad
Hagerstown
Skippeesburg
PRR
Maryland
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Lawrence Welk
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