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The cover of Flight Magazine October 25,1934

 

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The M-10001 Arrives in Chicago — October 24, 1934

Running on a strict schedule, Union Pacific’s streamlined train, the M-10001, came to Chicago on this day, October 24, in 1934, midway through its record-breaking dash across the continent. Read more here:

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October 23, 1934 : Piccard Balloon Launch from Dearborn Reaches Stratosphere

On October 23, 1934, the husband-and-wife team of Jean and Jeannette Piccard navigated a balloon as high as 10.9 miles above the earth, starting from Dearborn, Michigan, and landing many hours later hundreds of miles away in Ohio. This flight reached the stratosphere, and set the women’s altitude record for Jeanette, which she held until the early 1960s. Read more here.

Date with Bernard for “Now and Forever” – Talked until midnight with him.

Here is what else was happening 80-years-ago today:

Charles Pretty Boy Floyd is killed by the FBI in East Liverpool, Ohio.  Floyd, had been a hotly pursued fugitive for four years. He reportedly used his last breath to deny his involvement in the infamous Kansas City Massacre, in which four officers were shot to death at a train station.

A new Time magazine is published.

And a Derby plane crashes killing 2 pilots in Rome.

Went horse back riding. Perfectly Grand day!  Just  a little sore.  Horse ran with Hazel and scared everyone ut she kept on riding – Betty Johnson and Mrs. Martens were out there but Mrs. M. did not ride. Ate chicken dinner – with biscuits.  Took some pictures – Came home in the afternoon.

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Hurricane force winds kill 21 and injure more than 100 in the Pacific Northwest.

The air race continues and the kidnapping indictments are underway.  Plus, a very pretty bavy received big bucks.

 

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“The Aldrich Family”” premieres on radio”

President Franklin D. Roosevelt held that those who were unemployed could not be barred from voting because of being on relief rolls.

The kidnap victim is home and another taken.

Went to Alice Claire Teagues for the week-end.   Nice place 75 miles N.E. of Roswell. Got there about noon. Went to a dance just after sundown – lasted until 12. Met Coach McCorkle (who fell for Hazel Hanson) from Tatum and Mr and Mrs Gene Kistler (Joyce Teague) anda Cecil Malden – all Good dancers – good time – learned to dance the schottishe and dance “New Shoes”.

 

 

 

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For the first time costumes were worn at Colonial Williamsburg for the presidents visit.  They have been worn ever since.

 

 

The big air race begins and suspected kidnappers are indicted.

A new Saturday Evening Post is published.

Friday- had an assembly program – Went off fairly well. Report cards went our Wednesday.

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FDR becomes the first president to ever visit Roanoke.   SIx people die and 25 homes are destroyed in L.A. floods.

 

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Claude Neal went missing from a Florida farm. He was later lynched for the rape of a girl, but had never been tried.   His violent death led to riots and ultimately the end of lynching in the U.S.

It could be death for a suspected kidnapper.

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Here is what else was happening 80-years-ago today:

The embattled Chinese Communists break through Nationalist enemy lines and begin an epic flight, know as The Long March, from their encircled headquarters in southwest China.  The march lasted a year and four days.  The minors end their hunger strike and there is hope the kidnap victim is alive.