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Monday August 31, 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.

Letter from Ty-Ty says she and Mary Jo will come Thursday – Dr. Smith died in his chair on Saturday morning last.  Seems terrible but he’d been ailing for some time!

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

Clark Gable is on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine

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A Nationalist radio broadcast from Seville announced that 67 miners at Rio Tinto had been executed for supplying Republican forces with munitions.

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The Battle of the Sierra Guadalupe ended in a tactical Nationalist victory.

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An explosion at a mine in Bochum, Germany killed 29.

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: Radio Prague International shortwave broadcasts from the government telegraph office

Radio Prague was launched.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chicago Daily Tribune August 31, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune August 31, 1936