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Monday July 12, 1937

July 13, 2017PostsBill Cosby, Boy Scouts, Comics, Guernica, mercenary, New York, Picasso, TimeShanna Vicker

The story continues with the second journal. This is an entry from her personal diary, diary

diary 2 by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.

No Post today:

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

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The Spanish pavilion opened at the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne in Paris, featuring Pablo Picasso‘s mural-sized painting Guernica hanging in the entrance hall.

American mercenary pilot Harold Edward Dahl was shot down near Madrid and captured by Nationalist forces.

Image result for Abbie an' Slats july 12, 1937 The comic strip Abbie an’ Slats first appeared.

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Bill Cosby, actor and comedian, is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Image result for july 12, 1937 Chief of the Boy Scouts James E West is on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine

The McCarren Park Pool in Brooklyn , New York is full.

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Monday April 26, 1937

April 27, 2017Postsbombing, Guernica, Prague, rail strike, Spanish Civil War, TimeShanna Vicker

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

Carsey had answered my terrible letter with one just as bad which I read Dit. Also I had written begging pardon for ever saying anything and he had answered that in the old-time newsy letter so I guess that’s all over!