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Wednesday September 30, 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

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FDR at dedication of Boulder Dam

A man hands a program to baseball legend Babe Ruth, center, as he is joined by his second wife Clare, center left, and singer Kate Smith, front left, in the grandstand during Game One of the 1936 World Series at the Polo Grounds in New York

Pinewood Studios opened in England

Chicago Daily Tribune Sept 30, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune Sept 30, 1936

Wednesday January 29, 1936

diary 2The story continues with the second journal.  This is an entry from her personal diary,  written by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago.  Click here to read more)

Letter from Jaime – the sky is falling!   He is planning to go to the operas – maybe so I  go too!   P.T.A. today with Charlotte Kyng on the programmer!

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

Cooperstown, New York, the Baseball Hall of Fame announces the election of five charter members: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson.

The Montreal Gazette Jan 30, 1936
The Montreal Gazette Jan 30, 1936

 

The Soviet Academy of Sciences announced that it had revived insects and lobsters buried 3,000 years ago under Siberian permafrost

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chicago Daily Tribune Jan 29,1936
Chicago Daily Tribune Jan 29,1936

Monday September 24, 1934

No Post today.  She is teaching 8th grade in Roswell NM and is playing the organ at church.  She should be perfectly happy but is not.  More adventures to come.  We will find out where she will spend Thanksgiving and with whom.

 

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

The Detroit Tigers won the American League pennant, their first in 25 years, when the New York Yankees were eliminated by losing to the Boston Red Sox 5-0. The game also proved to be Babe Ruth‘s last at Yankee Stadium; he drew a walk in the first inning and was replaced by a pinch-runner

Chicago Daily Tribune Sept 24, 1934
Chicago Daily Tribune Sept 24, 1934