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Saturday July 24, 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.

Went to see Martha Eggert (?) in “Castilla en Flanders” which was very good. She is bellisima and has a lovely voice –   we went to Xochimileo because there was a moon. Met up with 5 ladies from St Louis who knew not 6 words of Spanish among them! We stayed out an hour and the moon made everything fairy – like and beautiful. There was a fiesta there of some kind and music, rockets and fire-crackers sounded everywhere!  The car was packed coming home – Jean and I rode the second car and finally got seats!

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

The Scottsboro Boys, with attorney Samuel Leibowitz

In Alabama, four of the nine Scottsboro Boys were set free after six years of legal battles

A new Saturday Evening Post and New Yorker Magazine

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John ‘Red’ Pollard on Seabiscuit, at the Yonkers Handicap at Empire City Race Track

Chicago Daily Tribune July 24, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune July 24, 1937