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Saturday September 25, 1937

The story continues with the second journal. This is an entry from her personal diary, by Elizabeth Lancasterdiary 2

Letter from Ty-Ty telling me to tell Mrs. Wheat the kind of water glasses I wanted – Wrote Mrs. Wheat.  Finished “Sea of Grass” of Arnold’s and loved it.   Read “Turnabout” (also his!) and laughed and laughed.   The situation in it is so ridiculous!  Heard last night that Bob Benson (Seminole) was killed – Know no particulars – June Wallace (boy) came to see Alyce Claire yesterday and told her. He left today.  She has said “no” to both June and Ed this week.  She cant be interested after they begin to get serious! I have a slight cold.

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

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The Battle of Pingxingguan ended in Chinese victory.

Benito Mussolini arrived in Munich on the first day of a five-day official visit to Germany.

 

 

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Geelong defeated Collingwood in the VFL Grand Final.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A new New Yorker and Saturday Evening Post magazine

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Image result for september 25 1937Street performers Benny and Betty Fox on the Illinois State Journal building at 313 S. Sixth Street Springfield, Illinois. Image result for september 25 1937

 

 

 

 

President Roosevelt visits Yellowstone National Park.

Chicago Daily Tribune Sept 25, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune Sept 25, 1937

Tuesday June 23, 1936

diary 2The 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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Here’s what else was happening 80-years-ago today

 

 

The 1936 Democratic National Convention opened in Philadelphia.

Al Capone was stabbed in the back by fellow Alcatraz inmate James C. Lucas with a blade from a pair of barber’s shears, but the wound was not serious.

Maryse Hilsz.jpgMaryse Hilsz of France set a new women’s flight altitude record of 14,000m

 

 

Roger Salengro Home Secretary rekindle the Flame of the Unknown Soldier Grave

 

Chicago Daily Tribune June 23, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune June 23, 1936

Monday April 27, 1936

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

Mrs Temple and her daughter Shirley are on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine

 

An Italian plane dropped leaflets on Addis Ababa threatening to bomb and destroy the city if the advance on the Ethiopian capital met any resistance.

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Hitler appointed Hermann Göring as Commissioner of Raw Materials and Foreign Currencies.

Joseph Bowers made the first escape attempt from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. A tower guard shot him and he fell from a chain link fence to his death.

 

 

 

 

 

Chicago Daily Tribune April 27, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune April 27, 1936