Went horse back riding. Perfectly Grand day!  Just  a little sore.  Horse ran with Hazel and scared everyone ut she kept on riding – Betty Johnson and Mrs. Martens were out there but Mrs. M. did not ride. Ate chicken dinner – with biscuits.  Took some pictures – Came home in the afternoon.

Here is what else was happening 80-years-ago today:

Hurricane force winds kill 21 and injure more than 100 in the Pacific Northwest.

The air race continues and the kidnapping indictments are underway.  Plus, a very pretty bavy received big bucks.

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“The Aldrich Family”” premieres on radio”

President Franklin D. Roosevelt held that those who were unemployed could not be barred from voting because of being on relief rolls.

The kidnap victim is home and another taken.

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Went to Alice Claire Teagues for the week-end.   Nice place 75 miles N.E. of Roswell. Got there about noon. Went to a dance just after sundown – lasted until 12. Met Coach McCorkle (who fell for Hazel Hanson) from Tatum and Mr and Mrs Gene Kistler (Joyce Teague) anda Cecil Malden – all Good dancers – good time – learned to dance the schottishe and dance “New Shoes”.

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For the first time costumes were worn at Colonial Williamsburg for the presidents visit.  They have been worn ever since.

The big air race begins and suspected kidnappers are indicted.

A new Saturday Evening Post is published.

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Friday- had an assembly program – Went off fairly well. Report cards went our Wednesday.

Here’s what else was happening 80-years-ago today:

FDR becomes the first president to ever visit Roanoke.   SIx people die and 25 homes are destroyed in L.A. floods.

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No Post today: But soon things get exctiting!

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Claude Neal went missing from a Florida farm. He was later lynched for the rape of a girl, but had never been tried.   His violent death led to riots and ultimately the end of lynching in the U.S.

It could be death for a suspected kidnapper.

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No Post today:  But this weekend she has a date!

Here is what else was happening 80-years-ago today:

The embattled Chinese Communists break through Nationalist enemy lines and begin an epic flight, know as The Long March, from their encircled headquarters in southwest China.  The march lasted a year and four days.  The minors end their hunger strike and there is hope the kidnap victim is alive.

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No post today:

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A new Vogue Magazine is out and miners are on strike in Hungary.

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A wild day in football and terrorists are hunted in Europe.

FOOTBALL AT FENWAY  
The Redskins run wild
over Pittsburgh, 39-0

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No Post today.  She is still waiting anxiously for a letter from her summer love.

Here’s what else else is happening 80-years-ago-today:

A new  Saturday Evening Post and there are fears the kidnap victim is dead.

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No post:   Today is Columbus Day. 

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