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

Got up at 10 – sent money orders to Whitmore and Smith for Dad’s book by Kagama and to Good English Magazine.   It is a gorgeous day do I walked around a bit.  Fixed some pictures in a new album. Went to Velma’s & stayed to supper.  Took an angel food cake from the cafeteria.  It was luscious!  I think this is the last page I’ll write in this book – Adios!

*editors note – This is the final page of the Journal Mexico Summer. I am in the process of turning this into an e-book.   I will link the book to this website when it is complete. In the meantime there’s good news!  I have Grandma’s Diary that begins on January 12, 1936. 

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A new Saturday Evening Post and New Yorker

The Oberkommando der Marine was formed in Germany.

The Executive Order on the Reich Tax Law forbade Jews from serving as tax consultants in Germany.

War and storms take many lives in Europe

The Warner Bros. short cartoon I Wanna Play House was released, the first with “target” titles.

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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)

Sent Carsey’s letter along with one to Jeanette and cards to Silver City & Van Horn.  The dramatic club gave “The Robe of Wood”  by John Golden with a sub in the main part. I wasn’t so bad though – Alyce Claire went to Tatum in case Joyce’s “party” was pulled off  this week end! I went to  Mrs. Martens for Mexican Supper, Mrss Garrett and Charlotte St. John were there.   Played Rook and Cribbage after supper.  Very good time. Rosemary Wilrand(?) and husband & mother in-law were ever so he could take a Civil Service Exam. Rosemary & Oliver stayed in Alyce Claire’s room.  Five more school days in this semester!  Mr. heath has the mumps!  Poe Corn, too!

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General elections were held in Cuba. Miguel Mariano Gómez was elected the country’s new president.

The Dominican Republic‘s capital city of Santo Domingo was renamed Ciudad Trujillo (Trujillo City), after the country’s ruler Rafael Trujillo

The far-right political league Croix-de-Feu was dissolved in France and the French Social Party was formed.

Division of class is a political issue.

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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)

Sent in the 2nd installment of insurance ($30.00) today – Only one more payment for this year!  This time next week the exams will be under way!  I wrote a letter to Carsey tonight – just a card – to see if it gets a rise out of him.   I am not so sure when I’ll get up the nerve to send it!

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An earthquake centred in Túquerres, Colombia killed 250 people.

The Democratic National Committee endorsed U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt for re-election in 1936

Guns sale motives are being questioned.

Construction continues on the Golden Gate Bridge

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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)

Visited with Burdette’s in the evening – Saw Mrs. Martens and Mrs. Hightower in P.O. when we entered to pay bills, Yes!  today is pay-day!  Mrs. Martens has just returned from a month’s vacation in Nebraska with Mr. M’s people. Mr. Gilpin was at Burdette’s and their niece Mildred is still there.  It is Burdette’s wedding anniversary – eighteen years!!!

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Ethiopia asked the League of Nations to dispatch a commission to investigate the use of poison gas by Italian troops.

Jewish booksellers throughout Nazi Germany were ordered to turn in their Reich Publications Chamber membership cards, without which no one was permitted to sell books

A Total Lunar Eclipse takes place

Iran’s Reza Shah announced a law according which wearing Hijab or Islamic veil is against the law, thus; the veil was officially outlawed.

A winter hurricane shocks Europe

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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)

Snow covered the ground. Letter from Ty-Ty and Dit in Silver City and one from Pauline R in Dexter.   Finished making out Final Exam Questions.  Forgot to say that I saw Ms. Tomlimson Ford yesterday at Ms. Grady’s.  She is leaving son for California. She looks sweet, fragile and bewildered

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It’s the beginning of the North American Cold Wave.

The Spanish Cortes Generales was dissolved and new elections called for February.

Iran became the first Muslim country to ban the wearing of veils in public.  In the years prior to the 1979 Revolution, Iran celebrated January 7 as Women’s Day to mark this event

New York Giants owner Charles Abraham Stoneham passed away.   He was also the center of numerous corruption scandals and the instigator of the “Soccer Wars” which destroyed theAmerican Soccer League.

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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)

Cold all day.  The mail is all bills!  Saw ” The Littlest Rebel” with Shirley Temple – with Alyce Claire – not unpacked or rested yet – School about as usual

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It’s flooding in Los Angeles

Ethiopias ‘ Haile Selassie is on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine as Man of the Year

The U.S. Supreme Court decided United States v. Butler, finding the processing taxes of the Agricultural Adjustment Act unconstitutional.

The German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee entered service.

The Agatha Christie detective novel The A.B.C. Murders was first published.

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Packed and got ready to return – Jamie, Jonathon, Mary Jo and Harry and I went to the show “Glass Key”  Not so hot!  Jonathon slept a clock and a half! Drove both nights Wed. and Thurs. !! He surely tells of a hilarious time and good talks.

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Bob Hope first heard on network radio as part of”The Intimate Revue”

England defeated the New Zealand All Blacks for the first time in a Rugby Union international match, 13-0. Alexander Obolensky became a national hero when he scored two tries.

This is the cover date of Billboard magazine’s first published hit parade, listing the most popular recordings in the United States.

Micky’s Polo Team, a short animated film featuring Charlie Chaplin, Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, and Harpo Marx in a polo match against various Disney characters, is released

The George Bernard Shaw play The Millionairess had its world premiere in Vienna.

“Fort Jefferson National Monument, Florida established”

It’s quite cold and windy in Canada.

A new Saturday Evening Post and New Yorker.

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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)

Was invited to a party at Wylies so I had and oil shampoo.  Eight tables then – As usual a rousing good time – Bill and Anges brought us home.  Jonathon returned

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U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt presented the annual State of the Union address to Congress. Read it here. 

The Polish government freed 27,000 prisoners under a general amnesty.

36,400 died in auto accidents in 1935 compared to 32,719 in 2013.

The comedy-drama film Riffraff starring Jean Harlow and Spencer Tracy was released.

A new Popeye the Sailor is released.

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A young man assists a young woman in putting on her ice skates to go skating on the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool in Washington D.C.

Scientists take a close look at Mars – they believe it has snow, rain and vegetation

In a reply to James Grover McDonald‘s statement of December 29, Germany said that the League of Nations had “every reason to worry first about the manner in which states belonging to the League deal with minorities and confessions within their borders” before concerning itself with Germany’s internal affairs.

The first-ever New York Film Critics Circle Awards were announced. The Informer was named Best Film of 1935.

Cypress Gardens opened near Winter Haven, Florida

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