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Saturday March 6, 1937

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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.

Stayed in bed till noon. Lanora came Thrus afternoon. She got out Image result for love is newsFriday for the games.   Saw Pauline Rosamond and Margie.  Had J.A. and Edd for  waffle supper.  Played pitch after washing of the dishes.  Later saw  Love Is News at Midnite preview!  Took pictures of Lanora for application here – Got blanks from it.

 

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

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Parliamentary elections were held in Chile. The Liberal Party won a slim plurality in the Senate and tied with the Conservative Party in the Chamber of Deputies.

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The Percy Grainger composition Lincolnshire Posy was first performed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

A new New Yorker and Saturday Evening Post Magazine

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The Depression in Seattle Washington.

THEN: Unemployed men search for anything useful in land being reclaimed with city garbage used for fill on the tideflats. The date is March 6, 1937. The scene looks northwest from what was once near 7th Ave. S. and Forest Street, but is now inside the operations facilities for the Light Rail Division of Sound Transit. The Sears Department Store, now home of Starbucks Coffee Co., appears in the upper-left corner. Courtesy: The Post-Intelligencer Collection at the Museum of History and Industry.
Unemployed men search for anything useful in land being reclaimed with city garbage used for fill on the tideflats

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Frank H. Buck SS was an American steam tanker that was involved in a collision off the Golden Gate and beached near Pt. Lobos California.

 

 

 

Chicago Daily Tribune March 6, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune March 6, 1937

 

 

 

 

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