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Monday October 5, 1936

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

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

 

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Italy devalued the lira and introduced various levies on capital.

 

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In Moscow, the USSR State Symphony Orchestra performed in public for the time.

Baseball’s Lou Gehrig and Carl Hubbell on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine

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Jarrow March: 200 Hunger marchers in Jarrow began their march to London. They carried a petition with 11,572 signatures asking for government help. The marchers hoped to draw attention to the 68 percent unemployment rate in the town

 

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Mongolian religious festival near Pailingmiao, capital of Inner Mongolia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chicago Daily Tribune October 5, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune October 5, 1936