(This is entry from the journal entitled “Mexico Summer” written by Elizabeth Whipple Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago)

Letter from Santa Fe saying they never received my letter with the certificate from home or the $10. Teachers annual picnic at Miss Cowan’s in the evening.  We went for Merle O’Terry and ate with Betty, Harriet and Lenore – Good food as usual.  Mr. Pope did not attend because he had a sudden attack of gall stones or something in the morning.   After the picnic we went to the P.T.A. and later on saw “The Gay Deception” with Frances Lederer and Frances Dee.  The cutest picture I’ve seen in a long time.

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

Jewish leader Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise sent an appeal to the League of Nations to stop Germany’s persecution of Jews.

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