Daily Archives: August 28, 2017

Saturday August 28, 1937

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

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No post today:

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

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H. S. Wong took the famous Bloody Saturday photograph, showing a baby crying in the bombed-out ruins of a Shanghai railway station.

The Vatican recognized the Franco regime and sent an apostolic delegate.

A new Saturday Evening Post and New Yorker magazine

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Churchman cigarette card of Sydney Wooderson.jpgEnglish athlete Sydney Wooderson set a new world record at Motspur Park by running a mile in 4 minutes 6.4 seconds.

Chicago Daily Tribune August 28, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune August 28, 1937

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday August 27, 1937

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

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Letter from Arnold telling me of chance to live in Goldsmith’sPool Camp in Ector County. I wish that someone would tell us definitely what we are going to do!  Told Ms. Frank Williams about Arnold and Me!  Then Mrs. Swarty and Mrs McWhorter.

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

The Kwantung Army occupied Zhangjiakou.

Image result for august 27, 1937Captain George E. T. Eyston breaks his own automobile land speed record at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah

British battleship H.M.S. Warspite, which is to be flagship of the Mediterranean fleet, leaving the floating dock at Portsmouth

 

 

 

 

Chicago Daily Tribune August 27, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune August 27, 1937

Thursday August 26, 1937

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

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No post today:

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

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British ambassador to China Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen was wounded when a Japanese plane strafed and attacked his limosuine.

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Turkey warned that any submarines that entered the Turkish Straits without identifying themselves would be attacked

Mysterious attacks began on neutral shipping bound for Republican ports.

Image result for august 26, 1937A Catapult assist launch of the Goddard Rocket was employed; achieved a maximum altitude of 2,000 feet; rocket corrected its flight path seven times during the flight.

 

 

 

 

Chicago Daily Tribune August 26, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune August 26, 1937