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.

We went to Chapultepec Park – saw the Dan Quixote fountains and listened to a half-hour concert by the Arguenta Typica.    Started to sprinkle so we started for home.  This certainly is a quiet Fourth of July.

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

7,000 of Sir Oswald Mosley‘s Blackshirts marching from Kentish Town to Trafalgar Square clashed with anti-fascists who tried to push past the 2,383 police on hand, but order was generally maintained amid 27 arrests

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