(This is an entry from the journal entitled Mexico Summer written by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago.  Click here to read more)

Had planned a dinner party at Dwight’s for Velma and Thelma’s birthday but Dwight had the flu so Bernard and I ate at the Cafeteria.  I went to Pete’s and Velma’s until he sent a telegram and worked a little (very little, I think!)  Got a Kodak picture of Pete and Velma.  Mrs. Martens for lunch.

Here’s what else is happening 80-years-ago today:

Great airship, USS Macon, crashes into Pacific Ocean. Amazingly the entire crew survives.  

Also, today the 1st U.S. airplane flight with auto slung beneath fuselage, it happened in  New York.

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(This is an entry from the journal entitled Mexico Summer written by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago.  Click here to read more)

No Post today:

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

The coldest temperature ever recorded on the Continent of Africa.   It was negative 11 in Ifrane, Morocco.

Read more: http://www.weatherexplained.com/Vol-1/Record-Setting-Weather.html#ixzz3txCAJ2ky

Abyssinia Crisis: Benito Mussolini mobilized 250,000 soldiers and ordered 50 planes to Eritrea.

The defense on the Hauptmann case rambles on in closing arguments.  The Italians are mobilizing for war in North Africa.

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(This is an entry from the journal entitled Mexico Summer written by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago.  Click here to read more)

Woke up this morning to the sound of rain!   Now (2:00) it is snowing and has been since about 10:30 this morning.  Hope it keeps up all day.  Everybody is thrilled over it!

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

A teen shoveling snow in  uptown New York City finds an alligator in the sewer. The first streamlined electric railroad engine begins service.

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Wild weather in Texas, a tornado claims 12 lives.

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(This is an entry from the journal entitled Mexico Summer written by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago.  Click here to read more)

Took “In a Monastery Garden” and “In Luxembourg Gardens” to the church to practice.  Ate lunch with Burdettes.  She had some advice to give about getting married!!! A headache prevented my seeing a wrestling match at the Institute or spending the night with Mrs. Leroy Brown!  Bernard called – He can say the most tactless things!!

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

A new Saturday Evening Post.

Nikola Tesla, the father of radio-television, power induction, robots and the cosmic ray,   publishes an article predicting a machine that will end all war. The trial of the Century comes to a close. Both sides rest their case.

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(This is an entry from the journal entitled Mexico Summer written by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago.  Click here to read more)

No post today:

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

The Philippean Constitution is adopted.  The Filipino  have drafted four more constitutions since then, 1943, 1973, 1986, 1987.

The Defense Rests in the Hauptmann Murder trial.

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(This is an entry from the journal entitled Mexico Summer written by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago.  Click here to read more)

This is the 3rd day that 3 of the 5 sixth grade teachers have been absent on account of flu!  Terrible discipline!

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

The more things change the more they stay the same!

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(This is an entry from the journal entitled Mexico Summer written by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago.  Click here to read more)

Two cards from Ty-Ty – one written Friday from Pecos (Jan 31st?) And one from Van Horn mailed Feb 4 getting here the same day! Don’t understand.  Dreamed last night of Carsey – probably means I won’t hear from him again!   Heard from Mexico City – the U! sending me information of accommodations under way to take care of foreign women students for $5.00 for the whole year!  That included board and room, tuition, books etc!  Sounds pretty good!

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

Monopoly goes on sale for the first time.

“Tomorrow’s Another Day” composed by Glenn Miller for the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra was recorded by  Decca Records.

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(This is an entry from the journal entitled Mexico Summer written by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago.  Click here to read more)

Found out Dwight sent me the bouquet in appreciation of my work with the chorus! Was I ever surprised! Took part of them to school.  Still no word from home. Plan to go to “David Copperfield” tonight – The show was very good! Rather longer than most but I’d never notice it if it hadn’t been that we had to see the first part later.  Came in just where he was going to meet his step-father – But contrary to everyone else, I didn’t shed a tear!  I went with Mary, Virginia, and Mrs. Burdette.

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(This is an entry from the journal entitled Mexico Summer written by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago.  Click here to read more)

Still no letter from home – Don’t know whether Ty-Ty went home last week-end or not.  Went to see “The Richest Girl in the World” with Miriam Hopkins who people say I resemble! Impossible! When I got home there was a lovely bouquet of sweet peas, roses and I guess some kind of lilies! I’m satisfied that Dwight bought them but who sent them, I still don’t know!

 I love surprises and bouquets even more!

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

A new Time Magazine featuring Pierre E. Flandin.

The Hauptmann trial continues and the defense is on the defense, and Russia causing concern.

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(This is an entry from the journal entitled Mexico Summer written by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago.  Click here to read more)

Only a fair crowd in the morning – and a poor one in the evening! Ate dinner with Johnston’s and Edvina and I rode in the gorgeous sunshine until I had to play for Men’s Chorus at 4.  After church Bernard and I went to Bess and Prentice White’s house and played Hearts!

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

A Solar eclipse!         

A college girl gets the hiccoughs and may need to be hospitalized.

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