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Wednesday April 29, 1936

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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.

“Midsummer Night’s Dream” was well worth the 40 cents.  Lucy Mae walked back with the Klyngs, Alyce Claire and me.   Didn’t see Harriet.  Bought Ty-Ty a pink dress and hat yesterday.  Seems I owe everyone in town.

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Austria sent troops to its German border, fearing invasion.

The first professional baseball game in Japan took place. Nagoya defeated Dai Tokyo 8-5.

Detroit Tigers star Hank Greenberg suffered a season-ending wrist fracture in a collision at first base with Jake Powell. Without their best hitter, the Tigers’ hopes of repeating as World Series champions were dashed

 

The funeral of Egyptian King Faud

Chicago Daily Tribune April 29, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune April 29, 1936

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Tuesday April 28, 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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King Farouk I of Egypt in military uniform

The King of Egypt Fuad. passes away. His son Farouk takes over the throne

By a vote of 62-35, the House of Lords passed a bill abolishing the special privilege of trial by peers in Great Brittain

Two young ladies strike a pose on their 1932 Ford. The picture taken April 28, 1936

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Chicago Daily Tribune April 28, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune April 28, 1936

Monday April 27, 1936

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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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Mrs Temple and her daughter Shirley are on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine

 

An Italian plane dropped leaflets on Addis Ababa threatening to bomb and destroy the city if the advance on the Ethiopian capital met any resistance.

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Göring

Hitler appointed Hermann Göring as Commissioner of Raw Materials and Foreign Currencies.

Joseph Bowers made the first escape attempt from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. A tower guard shot him and he fell from a chain link fence to his death.

 

 

 

 

 

Chicago Daily Tribune April 27, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune April 27, 1936

Sunday April 26, 1936

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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.

Harold and Jaime work today too.  We talked until time for lunch.  Ate at Watter’s then I had to meet Lenora at the Aunt Joyce’s.  Left El Paso about 2 P.M. Got home at 8 – Ate supper and so to bed!

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Pennsy train #NL-1 derailed about 25 cars in downtown Plymouth, Indiana.  Luckily, no one was injured.

Legislative elections were held in France, with run-off elections to be held the following week. The left-wing coalition known as the Popular Front did even better than expected and looked poised to take power.

 

The final Italian drive on the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, immortalized in Fascist propaganda as the March of the Iron Will, began.

 

The third annual Rose Sunday was observed by 20,000 people at the Morcom Rose Garden in Oakland, California to view the blooms and hear a concert.

KKK Members march in the Memorial Day Parade in Atlanta, Ga. The parade was held in memorial of the Confederate dead

Chicago Sunday Tribune April 26, 1936
Chicago Sunday Tribune April 26, 1936

Saturday April 25, 1936

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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.

Off to El Paso with Harps and Lenora Shafer at 6 A.M. Arrive noon at Mrs. Dauner’s  (Lenora’s Aunt) at 3717 Nations . Phone Jaime and Dit – Dit is at 1009 N. Stauton at the Mahlou Apts no 3.  Seventh house the child has lived in since she married.  Saw “Mr Deeds Goes to Town” in the P.M. with Jaime, Dit n Mary Jo.  Jonathon arrived at 4:30.  Went to Jaime’s place at Mrs. Andrews on Trowbridge.  She has gorgeous flowers of every kind.  Symphony with Stokowski, Leopold that night.   Enjoyed it immensely and thrilled by the “new” music. Saw Rowaina but she didn’t see me.   Saw Miss Anderson and her pal from Pecos who were in Mexico City last year.   Paul Zink there too.   Harold n’ Jaime joined us and Jonathon decided to stay at the Gateway.  Lenora’s folks came to take her to Juarez and we went to the Spinning Wheel.  Biggest drinks ever for a dime.  Freddie and Sally were there too.  To bed about 1 A.M.

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It’s Anzac Day in Australia – marking the  first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War.

The Battle of the Ogaden ended in Italian victory and Mussolini inaugurated the new planned town of Aprilia, Lazio.

Two football players shake hands in front of a referee over the pitch's center circle.
Harry Hooper of Sheffield United and Alex James of Arsenal shake hands at the start of the match

Arsenal defeated Sheffield United 1-0 in the FA Cup Final at Wembley Stadium.

Members of the Arab Higher Committee

The Arab Higher Committee was established.

Chicago Daily Tribune April 25, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune April 25, 1936

Friday April 24, 1936

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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.

Intermediate party – Couldn’t find Addie to get the key to the kitchen.  Had a good time –

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Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and a host of other notables attended the “Front Page Ball,in New York, New York

Adolf Hitler formally opened three NS-Ordensburgen (National Socialist Order Castles), elite military schools where future Nazi leaders were to be trained for three years.

Captain January FilmPoster.jpegThe musical comedy-drama film Captain January starring Shirley Temple was released.

 

 

 

Chicago Daily Tribune April 24, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune April 24, 1936

Thursday April 23, 1936

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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.

Sent off  review for Education before Verdun by Arnold Zweig.  Enjoyed the book. Bought tickets for Charlotte, Lorena and me for “Midsummer Night’s Dream” and finished a little blanket for Dit.  Bid day!  Plant to go to El Paso Sat. for Symphony and maybe Dit will have moved there by then.  Mary Jo and Jonathon also plan to be there. Heard a rumor that Hinkle might be our next Supt! Ojale!

 

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Two miners are freed at 12:44 a.m. after being trapped by a cave-in for over 10 days in the Moose River Gold Mines. A third trapped man had died on the 7th day  of rescue efforts. The event was broadcast by J. Frank Willis of the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission (CRBC) to over 650 radio stations throughout North America, and was picked up by the BBC and broadcast to Europe. It was the first live 24-hour radio coverage of a breaking news story in Canada.

Ice Jams continue to cause flooding problems in Maine, where dynamite is used to break them up.  The rivers dropped several feet at once.  In Idaho, the Boise River reaches flood stage

Piscataquis Valley Garage, Guilford, April 23, 1936
Guiliford, Maine

 

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Roy Orbison, singer songwriter, is born in Vernon, Texas

Chicago Daily Tribune April 23, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune April 23, 1936

 

Wednesday April 22, 1936

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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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An estimated 400,000 students demonstrated nationwide in the second year of a student movement protesting global militarization. Here about 500 students walked out of class at Lincoln High School in Tacoma, Washington

 

 

Singer, and future Beach Boy,  Glen Campbell was born in Arkansas 

 

Germany announced that Eckener Avenue in Berlin, named after the Zeppelin commander Hugo Eckener, would be renamed Adolf Hitler Street.

Porky Pig takes on an angry bird in Porky’s Poultry Plant

Chicago Daily Tribune April 22, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune April 22, 1936

Tuesday April 21, 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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Howard Hughes sitting in the Northop Gamma Racer in New York after setting a new Miami-New York record

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Groundbreaking ceremonies for the San Jacinto Monument

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Anti-Jewish riots by Arabs in Tel Aviv-Jaffa killed 11 people and injured 50.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Hon. Neville Chamberlain, is surrounded by press photographers and journalists as he leaves No.11 Downing Street on Budget Day, 1936On Budget Day in the United Kingdom, Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain projected a surplus of nearly £3 million for the next year, but raised taxes to help pay for increased defence spending

 

 

Chicago Daily Tribune April 21, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune April 21, 1936

Monday April 20, 1936

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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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Cultist Frank Buchman is on the cover of this weeks Time Magazine

A 131 foot snake is reportedly found in Brazil.

Chicago Daily Tribune April 20,1936
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Generaloberst Werner von Blomberg in 1934
Generaloberst Werner von Blomberg

Before a military parade celebrating Hitler’s 47th birthday, General Werner von Blomberg was promoted to the rank of Generalfeldmarschall.

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Emden in China, 1931

The German cruiser Emden began a controversial 10-day goodwill visit to the city of Baltimore, Maryland, sponsored by local German-American groups. Over 2,000 people marched to protest the cruiser’s arrival, but thousands of other Baltimoreans would wait for hours to take tours of the ship during its stay.

 

Ellison “Tarzan” Brown won the Boston Marathon

Chicago Daily Tribune April 20, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune April 20, 1936