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Monday March 15, 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.

Got back from a visit to Seminole – Curry’s (our hostess) were lonley but Carsey Such a selfish insulting someone I never seen!  I don’t care if I never see him!

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

Image result for madison square garden march 14, 193720,000 people attended an anti-Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden. Banners hanging from the rafters called for a boycott of Nazi goods. Hugh S. Johnson was a featured speaker at the event, declaring that “Hitler and his immediate staff of Nazipathics have become a sort of monster, threatening the peace of the world.

Joseph Davis, the U.S. Ambassador to Russia is on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine
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The Highway is under construction in San Francisco

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The Derailment of a Southern Pacific freight train in the mouth of tunnel at Tehachapi Pass held up passenger for hours. They later were taken to Los Angeles by bus. 

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Chicago Daily Tribune March 15, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune March 15, 1937