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

Very Happy Christmas – Music from Jona – then mirrors from Jaime and pj’s from Mary Jo besides slip from Alyce Claire, stationary, candy, hankies cards etc.  Some hand-printed cards from Mr. Berkness – Jonathon left at 7 P.M. for Memphis, Tenn For Y.P. Conference of M.S. Church, South

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

More Christmas mail than ever points to signs of an improving economy

A solar eclipse.

Vice Minister of Chinese Railways Tang Yu-jen was assassinated in Shanghai.

Italian colonial authorities sentenced three Eritreans to be shot in the back as spies for Ethiopia

Two law enforcement officers were killed in the line of duty.

Policeman Thomas J. O’Neill
Butte Police Department, MT
EOW: Wednesday, December 25, 1935
Cause of Death: Gunfire

Patrolman Joseph P. Reiner
New York City Police Department, NY
EOW: Wednesday, December 25, 1935
Cause of Death: Vehicular assault

 

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King George V sent a message to the empire.

Russia announces it has quadrupled its war fleet