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Friday February 26, 1937

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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.

Left for Tatum – Charlotte, Lenore, Alyce Claire, and I!  Ate country sausage biscuits and angel food cake for supper at Joyce’s – Charlotte, Lenore and I slept on the day bed!

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

The play The Ascent of F6 by W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood premiered at the Mercury Theatre in London.

Chicago Daily Tribune February 26, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune February 26, 1937
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Wednesday December 30, 1936

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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.

Leave El Paso at one- got to Roswell at 7

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

 

 

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At 8 p.m. one of the first sit-down strikes in the United States began as autoworkers occupied the General Motors Fisher Body Plant Number One in Flint, Michigan

The famous debate between Jack Benny and Fred Allen over a violin was started.

Chicago Daily Tribune December 30, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune December 30, 1936
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