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Friday June 4, 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.

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The Duke of Windsor and Mrs. Wallis Warfield were married yesterday.  Terrible pictures of them today in the paper. Letter from Charlotte which I answered and wrote to Mrs. Ruiz to ask if she wanted me to bring her anything when I came.  She wanted some creams when I came before! didn’t stir out of the house!!!

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

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The Dust Bowl  towering over the Panhandle town of Hooker, Oklahoma

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Fumimaro Konoe

Fumimaro Konoe became Prime Minister of Japan.

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Kriegsmarine

The Kriegsmarine held its first maneuvers off Heligoland since the island was refortified in defiance of the Treaty of Versailles. Only a skeleton fleet participated because so many ships were deployed in Spain.

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Dizzy Dean

The National League lifted its suspension of Dizzy Dean, who stuck with his vow not to sign a letter of apology but issued a letter of “explanation” instead. Dean lost $500 during the course of his suspension.

Image result for sylvan goldman shopping cartSylvan Goldman introduced an invention of his called a shopping cart at the Humpty Dumpty supermarket he owned in Oklahoma City

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Chicago Daily Tribune June 4, 1937

 

Thursday June 3,1937

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.

Got chiffon ruching  on morning mail! A record I say! Helped dad mend roof on back porch and bath but I don’t think it helped  much. Also helped (?) him fix a light over the door of the Annex. Had postponed party for May birthdays until tonight. my partner was the new chiropractor Dr. Bernard Walker. Very Nice

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

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Ford Frick

The Duke of Windsor and Wallis Warfield (Simpson) were married at the Château de Candé in Monts, France.

Dizzy Dean refused to sign a letter of apology and threatened to sue Ford Frick for $250,000

 

 

Image result for june 3, 1937Amelia Earhart’s Lockheed Electra 10E, NR16020, departs Caripito for Paramaribo

 

 

 

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