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Sunday July 4, 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.

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Chapultepec

We went to Chapultepec Park – saw the Dan Quixote fountains and listened to a half-hour concert by the Arguenta Typica.    Started to sprinkle so we started for home.  This certainly is a quiet Fourth of July.

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

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demonstrator struggling with police as the fascists from Kentish Town, led by Sir Oswald Mosley

7,000 of Sir Oswald Mosley‘s Blackshirts marching from Kentish Town to Trafalgar Square clashed with anti-fascists who tried to push past the 2,383 police on hand, but order was generally maintained amid 27 arrests

 

 

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Chicago Sunday Tribune July 4, 1937
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Sunday September 9, 1934

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Packed and moved – Went to church – Bernard took me home after church.

Here is what else was happening 80-years-ago-today.

And check out the Escape from Mexico page – the refugee train pulls out of San Pedro and  a wondrous miracle baby born in the midst of war.  Must read!

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Albuquerque Journal Sept 9, 1934

 

7,000 police and guardsmen were dispatched to London’s Hyde Park, looking to head off any potential violence on the occasion of a rally by 1,200 members of Oswald Mosley‘s British Union of Fascists. About 8,000 to 9,000 anti-fascists and onlookers also turned out, but the police cordon was so thick that no one on the outside of it could hear the speeches. A total of eighteen arrests were made, mostly for disorderly conduct.

Rudolf Caracciola and Luigi Fagioli won the Italian Grand Prix.

The Little King, a comic strip by Otto Soglow that had appeared in The New Yorker for several years, made its debut in its new form of a newspaper comic strip

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