Daily Archives: July 29, 2017

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.

No post today

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

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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.

Image result for july 29, 1937First flight of the Lockheed Model 14 Super Electra

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.

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

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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