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.

The Great Ohio River Flood of 1937 continues as the Associated Press reported a total of 333 known deaths across eight U.S. states from the recent flooding. 225 of the deaths were in Kentucky.

A new New Yorker and Saturday Evening Post 

The Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center ended. 13 of the 17 defendants were sentenced to execution by firing squad.

Its President Roosevelt’s birthday

Hitler speaks on the fourth anniversary of the Nazi takeover of power. It is  always the occasion for a major Hitler speech.  Here he formally renounced Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles and banned Germans from accepting Nobel Prizes

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