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Saturday February 22, 1936

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

grand time

 

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Had letter from both places in L.A. Matson won’t do.   Lenore came up in P.M. Alyce Claire and I played tennis for over an hour (from 10:30 to 12:15) then found Lenore waiting when we got back.  Shopped a little and watched crowds.  Went to Wolfe’s with Lenore at night.  Played Pitch until 11:00 then they rolled up the rugs and we danced everything.  Virginia Reel, Polka, Watty, Little Shoe, Schotische (?) and had the grandest time this year.   Got home at 1:30. Sam Sherman bumped up against me during the first Virginia Reel and broke my glasses!  More poor luck!

 

 

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

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On George Washington‘s 204th birthday, retired baseball legend Walter Johnson replicated a feat attributed to Washington by throwing a silver dollar across the Rappahannock River. Though it remained in dispute whether Washington ever did such a thing, Johnson did prove that it could be done.

Nazi Germany established quotas for Jewish doctors. The decree by Gerhard Wagner stated that the proportion of Jewish doctors in Germany could not exceed the proportion of Jews in the country’s general population

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The weather is getting warmer but the roads are still blocked in Iowa as a result of the 1936 North American Cold Wave.

A new New Yorker and Saturday Evening Post

Chicago Daily Tribune Feb 22, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune Feb 22, 1936

Wednesday January 29, 1936

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

Letter from Jaime – the sky is falling!   He is planning to go to the operas – maybe so I  go too!   P.T.A. today with Charlotte Kyng on the programmer!

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

Cooperstown, New York, the Baseball Hall of Fame announces the election of five charter members: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson.

The Montreal Gazette Jan 30, 1936
The Montreal Gazette Jan 30, 1936

 

The Soviet Academy of Sciences announced that it had revived insects and lobsters buried 3,000 years ago under Siberian permafrost

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chicago Daily Tribune Jan 29,1936
Chicago Daily Tribune Jan 29,1936