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Thursday March 12, 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.

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

March 12,1936. People gathered at the Main Street Bridge in Pawtucket to watch the river rise. The spring thaw and two days of rain had swollen rivers all over New England, and that night they would overflow their banks in many places.:

People gathered at the Main Street Bridge in Pawtucket, Rhode Island to watch the river rise.

 

 

 

 

Britain, France, Belgium and Italy (the signatories of the Locarno Treaties besides Germany) formally protested the German government’s renunciation of the Locarno Pact. The League of Nations also noted it as a violation of international law.

Germany threatened to enter a state of “honourable isolation” and increase its military presence in the Rhineland if France and Belgium continued to mass troops on their eastern borders

Chicago Daily Tribune March 12, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune March 12, 1936