Daily Archives: May 9, 2017

Sunday May 9, 1937

The story continues with the second journal.  This is an entry from her personal diary, diary 2

Sent Ty-Ty body powder and artificial dress bouquet for Mother’s Day.  Sent Dad hankies tie too!  Still I have no hat.   Have decided to go to Mexico again this summer and finish toward a Master’s – Last night, Patty, Rosamond, Mary Desarmeaux and Dot her sister, and Lavora, ate supper with all of us and Harriet Poorbaugh. Harriet and Lenore went to the show and we sat around and talked.   Ed, Alyce Claire and I took them all back to Dexter and Lake Arthur. I think Margie will marry her Stan Bagwell in Amarillo June 2, though her sister doesn’t want it.  Contracts given out.  I get 125 next year!  Seems small.

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

Image result for woman flee bilbao5,000 women and children began to evacuate Bilbao.

More than 50 were injured in Toulouse when a riot broke out between political factions. The rioting began when rightists paraded to an equestrian statue of Joan of Arc shouting “France for the French”, referring to the allegation that the Popular Front government of Prime Minister Léon Blum took orders from Moscow

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Paris Celebrates Joan Of Arc

Image result for may 9, 1937 grand prixHermann Lang  wins the Tripoli Grand Prix, in Mallaha,at the wheel of a Mercedes-Benz W 125.

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Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy debuts on NBC
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Chicago Daily Tribune May 9, 1937

Saturday May 8, 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.

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

Italy recalled its news correspondents from London and banned all British newspapers except for the Daily Mail, The Observer and The Evening News. The move was believed to have been taken in reaction to the British press mocking the recent defeats of Italian troops in the Spanish Civil War.

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Challenge Cup logoWidnes defeated Keighley 18-5 in to win rugby’s Challenge Cup in front of 47,699 at Wembley Stadium.

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The Montreux Convention Regarding the Abolition of the Capitulations in Egypt was concluded.

A new New Yorker and Saturday Evening Post magazine

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The Chicago Daily Tribune May 8, 1937