Daily Archives: April 14, 2016

Tuesday April 14, 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.

Velma came up and we sewed.  I on Dit’s little blue flannel blanket.  Pete came up later and chatted.  Saw Ruth Cobeau – She is terribly thin but the leg  is almost healed.   Her Scarlet Fever has given her a bad time bit in her wheelchair in the sunshine she is cheerful as ever. Letters from home, Dit and Jonathon already this week – The sky is falling

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

President F.D. Roosevelt opens the baseball season at Griffith Stadium, Washington, D.C

FDR Library Photograph Collection. NPx 74-20:496

 

The Battle of the Ogaden began on the southern front of the Abyssinian War.

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During a parade celebrating the fifth anniversary of the Second Spanish Republic in Madrid, several small bombs exploded under the presidential reviewing stand. The explosions caused no injuries but several people were trampled in the panic that ensued. Police blamed the attack on fascists.

A production of William Shakespeare‘s Macbeth, commonly nicknamed Voodoo Macbeth and directed by Orson Welles, premiered at the Lafayette Theatre in Harlem

 

Record turnout is expected in Illinois and Nebraska as voters head to the polls to vote in primary elections. Meanwhile, the Alaska G.O.P can not make a decision.

Chicago Daily Tribune April 14, 1936 pg 2
Chicago Daily Tribune April 14, 1936 pg 2
Chicago Daily Tribune April 14, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune April 14, 1936

 

Monday April 13, 1936

 

diary 2The 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.

Saw Tamarie Hubbard’s baby. It is the prettiest I ever saw I think!  Saw Love Before Breakfast” with Carole Lombard.  Read “Fragment of Empire” by Horgan. Good!

 

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

Eleanor Roosevelt hosts the Annual Easter Egg Roll at the White House

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In London, A woman wears her Birthday Suit to Easter Service at St. Paul’s Cathedral.

Chicago Daily Tribune April 13, 1936 pg 1
Chicago Daily Tribune April 13, 1936 pg 1

Walgreens opens in Miami

 

Adolph Hitler is on the cover of Time Magazine

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Ioannis Metaxas

Ioannis Metaxas became the new Prime Minister of Greece upon the death of Konstantinos Demertzis

Italian forces reached Lake Tana.

Joe Payne scored 10 goals in a single football (soccer) game during a 12-0 victory by Luton Town over Bristol Rovers.

 

Palestinian Arabs begin a general strike protesting against Jewish Immigration.

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Chicago Daily Tribune April 13, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune April 13, 1936