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

We decided Mary Jo could go to De Paw for only the transportation extra over anything around here!  I am as thrilled as she!  It is as if I were going back.  Maybe I will for the Centenial in May ’37.  Wrote her about it – Ty-Ty is making wool crochet set for Elfy – cap, jacket, and coverlet – precious!

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

Day 8 of the 1936 Olympic Games

US Men swept the 3 meter diving

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
3 metre springboard details	Richard Degener (USA)	Marshall Wayne (USA)	Alan Greene (USA)
10 metre platform details	Marshall Wayne (USA)	Elbert Root (USA)	Hermann Stork (GER)

American novelist, John Roderigo Dos Passos, is on the cover of this weeks Time Magazine 

Today is the hottest day in Arkansas history.

       Arkansas	  BRINKLEY       	 8/10/1936	108	74
       Arkansas	  CONWAY         	 8/10/1936	115	69
       Arkansas	  CORNING        	 8/10/1936	102	71
       Arkansas	  EUREKA SPRINGS 	 8/10/1936	112	74
       Arkansas	  FAYETTEVILLE EX	 8/10/1936	109	68
       Arkansas	  GRAVETTE       	 8/10/1936	112	65
       Arkansas	  MAMMOTH SPRING 	 8/10/1936	103	69
       Arkansas	  MENA           	 8/10/1936	112	76
       Arkansas	  NEWPORT        	 8/10/1936	106	70
       Arkansas	  PINE BLUFF     	 8/10/1936	108	79
       Arkansas	  POCAHONTAS 1   	 8/10/1936	99	71
       Arkansas	  PRESCOTT 2 NNW 	 8/10/1936	112	76
       Arkansas	  SUBIACO        	 8/10/1936	117	81

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