Daily Archives: August 7, 2017

Saturday August 7, 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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The Japanese began to evacuate their concession at Hankou, citing “the steadily growing tension and a desire to percent an incident likely to aggravate the general situation.”

A new New Yorker and Saturday Evening Post magazine

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Chicago Daily Tribune August 7, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune August 7, 1937

 

Friday August 6, 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.

Slept all afternoon – still no letter from Arnold. got some books from Mrs. Durand for Commerce.

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

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The Soviet Union and the United States agreed to extend their trade pact for one additional year.

The National Cancer Institute was established in the United States.

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The Dionne Quintuplets at age 3.

Chicago Daily Tribune August 6, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune August 6, 1937

Thursday August 5, 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 program by students of dancing and singing classes. Bought Spanish or Mexican cookbook. Jean was in one dance and got a basket of flowers.

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

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Emperor Shōwa 昭和天皇

Japanese Emperor Hirohito ratified a directive removing the constraints of international law on the treatment of Chinese prisoners of war.

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Frankie Frisch

Frankie Frisch of the St. Louis Cardinals appeared in his final major league game, going 0-for-1 as a pinch hitter during a 4–1 loss to the Boston Bees

Disney is hunting Moose

 

Wednesday August 4, 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:

 

 

Image result for venezuelan national guard 1937The Venezuelan National Guard was founded.

In Little Rock, Arkansas, the newly formed Society for the Booing of Commercial Advertisements in Motion Picture Theatres made its debut, booing loudly when corporate advertising appeared on the movie screen. Similar “booing clubs” soon began springing up elsewhere. In the 1930s and ’40s movie houses experimented with running ads for commercial products alongside movie trailers, but many theatre-goers resented the practice because, unlike the radio where ads were recognized as necessary, movies were not free.

Image result for august 4, 1937British Legion rekindles the Flame of the Unknown Soldier Grave in Paris, France

 

 

 

 

Chicago Daily Tribune August 4, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune August 4, 1937