(This is an entry from the journal entitled Mexico Summer written by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago.  Click here to read more)

I am “Mamma” to Mary Virginia and Robert Burdette until Wednesday.   Had the gang, Bernard, Dwight, Velma, Reg, Alyce Claire come over for Hearts –

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

Speaker of the House, Joseph W. Byrns Sr. is on the cover of today’s Time

An earthquake rocks the Japanese island of Formosa killing  2471 and leaving 250,000 homeless.

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(This is an entry from the journal entitled Mexico Summer written by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago.  Click here to read more)

Heard Utica Jubilee Singers (negro) at the Baptist church – Same that I heard in Vegas. Quite good. Went to Velma’s – Met Claudine, (Jersie Belle’s kin who married Don Carver) Don and got to bid them and Wilma goodbye.  After church we got an ice cream cone and rode until the dust drove us home –

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

An earthquake in taiwan:

The 1935 Hsinchu-Taichung earthquake was a magnitude 7.1  and is known as the deadliest earthquake in Taiwan’s history.

Amelia gets a bug in her eye and an American killed in Mexico.

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