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Sunday March 8, 1936

diary 2

The story continues with the second journal.  This is an entry from her personal diary, by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago.  Click here to read more.

 

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Tatum New Mexico Pump

This day rather runs from yesterday with only 5 1/2 hours sleep.  After eating “brunch” we all and Paine’s went to Monument and Hobbs to view the oil fields.  Then Alyce Claire and I struck out for Roswell.  Got here just after seven!  The best weekend I’ve had in many a moon!  I’d got to Lubbock again at the drop of the proverbial hat.  It is a great place to shop besides being a pretty town of 30,000 –  Somehow all the time we were there I kept thinking of Carsey, expecting to see him around the next corner.   It is a queer feeling – Particularly when you have reason to believe he is over 1000 miles away!   Mrs. Grady is back in her shop and I am glad!

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

The first stock car race was held at Daytona Beach

Spanish army officers including Emilio Mola and Francisco Franco held a secret meeting in Madrid to discuss launching a coup against the government.[13]

International Radio of Serbia was launched.

Copy photograph of the last streetcar ride in downtown Montgomery, Alabama, taken just before the city switched to bus service March 8, 1936 by photographer John E. Scott, Montgomery, Alabama Q81754
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Copy photograph of the last streetcar ride in downtown Montgomery, Alabama, taken just before the city switched to bus service.

 

 

 

 

Warm spring weather melting all that snow and ice and causing more problems

Chicago Sunday Tribune March 8, 1936 pg 8
Chicago Sunday Tribune March 8, 1936 pg 8
Chicago Sunday Tribune March 8, 1936
Chicago Sunday Tribune March 8, 1936

 

 

Saturday March 7, 1936

The story continues with the second journal.  This is an entry from her personal diary, by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago.  Click here to read more.

Left Tatum for Brownfield about 5:30 A.M. in a pouring rain – Got to Brownfield, woke up Sam and ate breakfast  Carolyn Bradley was with Alyce Claire, Joyce and me on the trip.  Finished breakfast dishes and departed for Lubbock, Saw Royal Ferguson on the way.  Got to Lubbock about eleven. Shopped a great deal – Joyce went to see her doctor and we shopped some more.  I tried on a black Chinese coolie hat trimmed in red but didn’t buy – Instead I bought a pink sweater, white hat, white purse, many gloves – Alyce Claire got a melon and blue outfit- Joyce yellow outfit and Carolyn just a few scattered things like me!  After supper we went to Ruby and Viola Sides – Played Bridge.  Royal was there – Cut up and had fun until time for the midnight matinee when we saw The Country Doctor  with the Dionne Quinns.  Very Good – Went back to Ruby and Viola’s  for more Bridge.  Ate Breakfast about four A.M. and soon left for Tatum.   Arrived Tatum a little after 6 our time.  Went to bed immediately.

 

Here’s what else happened 80-years-ago today

The U.S. Government is accuse of spying on American’s telecommunications

The Chicago Daily Tribune March 7, 1936 pg 1
The Chicago Daily Tribune March 7, 1936 pg 1
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Douglas Fairbanks and Sylvia Ashley were married in Paris

 

The Remilitarization of the Rhineland took place when German forces entered the Rhineland in violation of the Treaty of Versailles.

 

 

In the Reichstag, Hitler announced the renunciation the Locarno Treaties and then called for new elections on March 29 which he intended to prove that the German people were behind him.

 

The Chicago Daily Tribune March 7, 1936
The Chicago Daily Tribune March 7, 1936

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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