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.

Carsey’s gift was in the P.O. this am.  A tiny bottle of perfume and a white and gold compact! Am so proud of both of them!  Slow day at school!!

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

France restored the Constitution of Lebanon after it had been suspended for a number of years.

The winners of the 2nd New York Film Critics Circle Awards were announced. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town was named Best Film of 1936.

The U.S. Supreme Court decided De Jonge v. Oregon.

Wallis Simpson is  Time Magazine‘s person of the year.

President Roosevelt and first lady Eleanor Roosevelt are seen up Pennsylvania Avenue during the inaugural parade in Washington, D.C.

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