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Sunday May 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.

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Hope Harry got to Roswell ! Floods have been 6 ft all over Roswell!  Wrote Carsey, Lenore and the School Supt at Hobbs, N. Mex! Am playing “tired horse” today, too.

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The Memorial Day Massacre

The Chicago Police Department shot and killed ten unarmed demonstrators in Chicago, during the “Little Steel Strike”

 

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Chicago Sunday Tribune May 30. 1937
Chicago Sunday Tribune May 30. 1937

Tuesday March 17, 1936

diary 2

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.

Mary Jo got the dress – letter from Ty-Ty told of Jaime’s promotion to dispatcher.  Seems to have a charge of quite a bit

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The city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania witnessed the worst flood in its history when flood levels peaked at 46 feet.  It became known as the St. Patrick’s day flood of 1936.

Jo DiMaggio makes his debut as a Yankee

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Soviet Foreign Affairs Minister Maxim Litvinov told the League of Nations that it would become a “laughing stock” and could not be preserved “if it does not carry out its own decisions, but to the contrary accustoms the aggressor to ignore its recommendations, its admonitions and its warnings.” Litvinov expressed skepticism of Hitler’s proposals for peace, pointing out that the Locarno Treaties already represented just such a pact

Chicago Daily Tribune March 17, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune March 17, 1936

 

Monday March 16, 1936

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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.

Dressed for school but after I got there Mr. V said he could get me a sub.  So I fixed my lesson plans and came home! Felt good to lie down and to know I could stay there all day! Mrs. Grady brought me dinner and supper.

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Martin Clement is on the cover of Time Magazine.

TIME Magazine Cover: Martin W. Clement -- Mar. 16, 1936

Popeyeeugene.jpgThe character Eugene the Jeep first appeared in the comic strip Thimble Theatre (later known as Popeye after the strip’s best-known character).

The U.S. Supreme Court decided Wisconsin v. Michigan.2nd Class: 18 years

The Wehrmacht Long Service Award was established in Nazi Germany.

Hitler introduced the swastika as the national flag of Germany.

The temperature rises today and heavy rain begins to fall.  The flood waters begin to rise.

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Chicago Daily Tribune March 16, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune March 16, 1936

 

Sunday March 15, 1936

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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.

Mary Jo’s Birthday- felt lot better but I didn’t get up till noon.   Went to Grady’s for dinner and walked Rosamond and Pauline down to the bus station.  Lavora and I went to “Follow the Fleet”  with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.  I felt guilty about going when I hadn’t been to church bit I felt all right afterwards. Came home and went right to bed.   Read plays I got for Home Room program next month.  Lavora brought me my supper and didn’t leave until after 10:30!  Eva Deering was late in coming by. I tried to go to sleep before she left but couldn’t

 

 

 

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Uncle Sam starts a newspaper.   The first publication of the Federal Register

 

 

 

 

 

Nazi Germany annexes Austria

 

Hitler set two conditions before Germany would agree to send an envoy to a conference on the Rhineland dispute. First, Germany would have equal rights with those of the other powers present. Second, the powers would immediately enter negotiations for peace pacts with Germany. France was infuriated by the second condition and insisted that no such peace proposals could be discussed until German troops were withdrawn from the Rhineland.

Serge Mdivani

Serge Mdivani of the aristocratic Mdivani family was killed in a polo accident in Delray Beach, Florida

 

 

 

 

The flood waters are rising in the North East and the dust is flying in  the Texas Panhandle.

Heavy black clouds of dust rising over the Texas Panhandle, Texas; March 1936; photo by Arthur Rothstein.
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Chicago Sunday Tribune March 15, 1936
Chicago Sunday Tribune March 15, 1936

 

 

Monday February 3, 1936

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

Guess Jaime is enjoying opera – I understand that Eula went up to see it with him.  Mrs. Harriet went. Mr. Lawrence talked stocks with us at supper.

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The 1936 Cold Wave continues in the U.S. but in Germany things could be too warm for the Winter Olympics

Chicago Daily Tribune Feb 3, 1936 pg 23
Chicago Daily Tribune Feb 3, 1936 pg 23

George Santayana is on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine.

 

 

 

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt presented the annual State of the Union address to Congress.

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Rain in California continues – causing floods.

Chicago Daily Tribune Feb 3, 1936 pg 3
Chicago Daily Tribune Feb 3, 1936 pg 3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Polish government freed 27,000 prisoners under a general amnesty.

Chicago Daily Tribune Feb 3, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune Feb 3, 1936