Daily Archives: February 16, 2017

Tuesday February 16, 1937

The story continues with the second journal.  This is an entry from her personal diary, diary 2by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.

No post today.

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

 

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Vittorio Emanuele di Savoia

To celebrate the birth of Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, Mussolini proclaimed a general amnesty cancelling or reducing prison sentences for many types of offences.

Nylon

American chemist Wallace Carothers received a patent for nylon

Chicago Daily Tribune February 16, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune February 16, 1937

Monday February 15, 1937

The story continues with the second journal.  This is an entry from her personal diary, diary 2by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.

No post today.

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

 

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Wonthaggi, Australia

 

An underground explosion in a coal mine in Wonthaggi, Australia killed thirteen men.

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Los Angeles

11 were reported dead in flooding around southern Los Angeles

His eminence Dennis Joseph Dougherty is on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine

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Victims of the Ohio River Flood line up for food.

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The last Opel bicycle is produced
Chicago Daily Tribune February 15,1937 pg 10
Chicago Daily Tribune February 15,1937 pg 10

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chicago Daily Tribune February 15, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune February 15, 1937