Monthly Archives: July 2017

Friday July 30, 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.

Long letter from Arnold saying many nice things – talked about building a house in Andrews and what furniture he had! It was supposed to have been sent air-mail but didn’t come that way!  Bought Marjorie D Bagwell a piece of pottery and got pictures for Jean. She went to Frouton  Have some kind of a lump in my throat. Must be a gland swollen from my cold!

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Japanese forces occupied Tientsin.

Buckskin Brigades.jpgL. Ron Hubbard‘s first published novel Buckskin Brigades was released.

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C.D. Howe, Minister of Transport, boarding the first cross-Canada “dawn to dusk” flight.

Chicago Daily Tribune july 30, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune july 30, 1937

 

Thursday July 29, 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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25 were killed in a train derailment south of Paris.

Japanese soldiers on walls of Tongzhou

The Tungchow mutiny occurred within the East Hopei Army.

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Japanese forces bombed Tientsin, destroying Nankai University.

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Chicago Daily Tribune July 29, 1937 pg 9
Chicago Daily Tribune July 29, 1937 pg 9
Chicago Daily Tribune July 29, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune July 29, 1937

Wednesday July 28, 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.

Nice classes – visited an “Escuela hagar” kind of a day nursery near school.  Also a laboratory and distributing place for milk for places of charity, clinics, other day nurseries, etc.  In the afternoon Luz Maria Image resultand I went to see “Knight without Armor” or “El Amor Naces del Odio” with Robert Donat and Marlene Dietrich. Very good.  We started to go yesterday but it rained and hailed so hard that we decided against it.

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Harold Davidson

The infamous defrocked English priest Harold Davidson was mauled by a lion at the Skegness Amusement Park. He died two days later.

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Northern Ireland was struck by a wave of bombings in reaction to the one-day visit of the King and Queen of England

Chicago Daily Tribune July 28, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune July 28, 1937

Tuesday July 27, 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.

Letter from Dad – the sweetest I have ever received!  I hope I never lose it.  I’ve been able to do nothing all day since classes except pace the floor!  Dad says, if I’m not going to get my degree why finish now? Why not go home? and if the course weren’t so near over (over and done) I would!

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The sale of the British newspaper The Morning Post to the rival Daily Telegraph was announced. The Post was discontinued after 165 years in print and absorbed into the Telegraph.

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“Bundlestiffs” is the term applied to roving farm workers who own no car and carry the gear on their backs

Chicago Daily Tribune July 27, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune July 27, 1937

Monday July 26, 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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Cut the Educ. class because they visited another school. Came home to find letters from Arnold and Dit, bless her heart!  In the afternoon, letters from Ty-Ty, Jonathon and Mary Jo – Wonder what Dad will say!  Never have thought that he wanted me to be married – not just to Arnold, perhaps, but to anyone! Found out that there was a earthquake (very small) here last night between 9:30 and 10. Maybe that’s why I felt a little dizzy when I got out of the boat at Xo –

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The Orizaba earthquake occurred in eastern Mexico, killing at least 34 people.

Coat of arms of El Salvador El Salvador quit the League of Nations.

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Japanese troops march into the Zhengyangmen gate in Beiping after capturing the city

The Langfang Incident and Guanganmen Incident occurred in China.

The Prince of Japan is on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine

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Boys at the Deutschorst Country Club, a recreational gathering place of the Bund, outside of Sellersville, Pennsylvania

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Nazi party sympathizers
Chicago Daily Tribune July 26, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune July 26, 1937

Sunday July 25, 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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The Battle of Brunete ended inconclusively.

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Final stage of the Tour de France
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Roger Lapébie

Roger Lapébie of France won the Tour de France.

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Rudolf Caracciola

 

Saturday July 24, 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.

Went to see Martha Eggert (?) in “Castilla en Flanders” which was very good. She is bellisima and has a lovely voice –   we went to Xochimileo because there was a moon. Met up with 5 ladies from St Louis who knew not 6 words of Spanish among them! We stayed out an hour and the moon made everything fairy – like and beautiful. There was a fiesta there of some kind and music, rockets and fire-crackers sounded everywhere!  The car was packed coming home – Jean and I rode the second car and finally got seats!

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The Scottsboro Boys, with attorney Samuel Leibowitz

In Alabama, four of the nine Scottsboro Boys were set free after six years of legal battles

A new Saturday Evening Post and New Yorker Magazine

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John ‘Red’ Pollard on Seabiscuit, at the Yonkers Handicap at Empire City Race Track

Chicago Daily Tribune July 24, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune July 24, 1937

 

Friday July 23, 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.

Saw “Seventh Heaven” with Mr and Mrs Ruiz and enjoyed it every bit. Image result

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The seven-part radio series Les Misérables adapted by Orson Welles began airing on the Mutual Network

Image result for Matrimonial Causes Act 1937British Parliament passed the Matrimonial Causes Act, liberalizing the country’s divorce laws.

The Great Depression continues.

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A family is shown at their makeshift shelter in California

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hobbs, Texas gets an airport

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The opening of Me-Tex Airport
Chicago Daily Tribune July 23, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune July 23, 1937

Thursday July 22, 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.

Still no word from Carsey but I guess it takes a good long time. Had a program today from Jalisco!  The same tenor who range at El Patio Colonial when we went, was there today, and the couple that used to dance at the floor show of the Regis’ Don Quijote Room was there too.  I bought a beautiful carved table for Dit (20 Pesos!) and brought it home this afternoon. Sewed on my black dress and talked to Mrs. Ruiz. Yesterday, I bought a zarape from Michoncan, grey with figures of two coyotes which they say bring good luck- (Ojala! If Carsey has a car it will go for a seat covering which we failed to get while in Taxco!

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The Hughes Court, 1932–1937

President Roosevelt’s Judicial Procedures Reform Bill was defeated 70-20 in the Senate and sent back to committee.

The Toast of New York Film Poster.jpgThe biographical film The Toast of New York starring Edward ArnoldCary GrantFrances Farmer, and Jack Oakie premiered at Radio City Music Hall in New York City

 

 

 

Chicago Daily Tribune July 22, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune July 22, 1937

Wednesday July 21, 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

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Éamon de Valera

Éamon de Valera was re-elected President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State.

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The musical film High, Wide and Handsome starring Irene Dunne and Randolph Scott premiered at the Astor Theatre in New York City

Image result for july 21, 1937The Police Prefect Roger Langeron shaking hands of the decorated peacekeepers in Paris.

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Henri Desgrange (left), founder of the Tour de France, stands next to French rider Roger Lapebie in Pau, before the start of the 16th stage between Pau and Bordeaux.

1937 Man o' War racehorse. 1 of the greatest Thoroughbred race horses of all time.Man O War.

Chicago Daily Tribune July 21, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune July 21, 1937