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Monday August 2, 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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Got A on an Economics paper and she congratulated me on my Spanish!  Was I thrilled? Yes! Card from Irene Swann says she is starting to Mexico with Hazel Hansen. they probably will get here Tomorrow. Clever letter from Lenore. I’m lazy. I should study but I can’t get myself going for some reason or other.  I have so much to tell Arnold and it is so hard to write all of it in a letter.

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

Overprint marijuana revenue stamps from 1937

The Marihuana Tax Act was enacted in the United States placing the first taxes on the sale of  cannabis

New York politician Fiorello LaGuardia is on the cover of this week’s Time magazine

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Hay is being harvested in France

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Three men arrested  after a raid on Bangor Cave in Blount County Alabama made bond today on charges of operating and running a gambling casino.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt designated over 37,000 acres of the Capitol Reef area  in Utah as a National Monument

The U.S.S Arizona sits in Puget Sound

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Chicago Daily Tribune Aug. 2, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune Aug. 2, 1937