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Sunday November 8, 1936

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.

diary 2

Lenore Shafer moved in with me!  Surely am glad that after we had planned our apt. and I back out, we can still be together.

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

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Wells Fargo stagecoach celebrating the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge opening

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Nationalist general Emilio Mola launched an assault on the Spanish capital city of Madrid, beginning the three-year Siege of Madrid.

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250,000 people gathered in Hyde Park in support of the Jarrow Marchers.

Guatemala and El Salvador recognized the Franco regime

Chicago Daily Tribune November 8, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune November 8, 1936