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Saturday January 30, 1937

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

No post today.

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

 

The Great Ohio River Flood of 1937 continues as the Associated Press reported a total of 333 known deaths across eight U.S. states from the recent flooding. 225 of the deaths were in Kentucky.

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Kentucky

A new New Yorker and Saturday Evening Post 

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Image result for Anti-Soviet Trotskyite CenterThe Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center ended. 13 of the 17 defendants were sentenced to execution by firing squad.

 

 

Its President Roosevelt’s birthday

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Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt Cutting The President’s Birthday Cake

Hitler speaks on the fourth anniversary of the Nazi takeover of power. It is  always the occasion for a major Hitler speech.  Here he formally renounced Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles and banned Germans from accepting Nobel Prizes

 

Chicago Daily Tribune January 30, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune January 30, 1937

Wednesday July 8, 1936

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

 

I am 27 years old!  Jaime gave me “Tweed” perfume that I’ve wanted so long and the aaaothers gave me “Woolcott’s Reader” that I also have wanted.  Very nice day.  I think a year ago I went to Xochimilco – This is the first time in three years that I’ve celebrated my birthday with part of my family!

 

 

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

An explosion at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich killed 5 people.

The British government announced that German airships would no longer be allowed to fly over Britain except in cases of emergency due to weather. The decision was made after the Hindenburg chose a course over England during a recent flight to the United States and back, drawing concerns that German officers aboard could be studying military bases and learning government secrets

Chicago Daily Tribune July 8, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune July 8, 1936