(This is an entry from the journal entitled “Mexico Summer” written by Elizabeth Whipple Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago)

Fooled away the time by shopping, seeing the lawyer about the wreck.  Lawyer is Hugh Woodward.  Slept a little in afternoon.  Jack Crosby, who shot him-self accidentally Thursday while hunting rabbits, is resting but it worries me –  Bought some things for Ramoncito.  Jack Crosby hurt Thursday while hunting rabbits

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Czechoslovakian police arrested 28 people accused of spying for Germany.

The German cruiser Nürnberg was commissioned in Kiel in the presence of Julius Streicher.

A new Saturday Evening Post and New Yorker.

John Buchan became Governor General of Canada.

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(This is an entry from the journal entitled “Mexico Summer” written by Elizabeth Whipple Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago)

Sectional meeting and general meeting.  Saw Pete and he took me to the hospital. Have seen most of the Gallup crowd that is here.   Mozelle Brown came to see me.   Had a chance to go to the dance but after “Crusades” (grand picture!) and Josie’s leaving at 12 we couldn’t decide that we weren’t too tired.

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Chinese Premier Wang Jingwei and three other officials were shot in an assassination attempt in Nanjing as they were gathering for a group photo. The assailant was killed but it was not clear if he committed suicide or was shot by government bodyguards returning fire.

The Timiskaming earthquake occurred in western Quebec, Canada.

Ben Marcus purchased his first movie theatre  in Ripon, Wisconsin.   The Marcus Corp is now the fifth largest motion picture circuit in the U.S. and owns or operates 687 screens at 55 locations in key markets throughout the Midwest

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(This is an entry from the journal entitled “Mexico Summer” written by Elizabeth Whipple Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago)

Registering, one general meeting and the hospital took most of the day.  Mrs.  Regensberg came at 10:30 P.M. Jessie Tennison stayed with us in Betty’s place.

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Angry Italians staged anti-British demonstrations in Rome. Students shouted anti-British slogans and vandalized shop signs that were written in English.

In Chicago, Big Joe Williams and the Washboard Blues Singers made the first recording of the classic blues song “Baby, Please Don’t Go“.

The British government said it would raise the school-leaving age from 14 to 15.

John Henry Lewis defeated Bob Olin in St. Louis for the World Light Heavyweight Championship of boxing.

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(This is an entry from the journal entitled “Mexico Summer” written by Elizabeth Whipple Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago)

Left for Albuquerque about 12:15. Mrs. Johnson fixed us a lovely chicken lunch.  Just the other side of Encino we found the wreck in which Mary Wingford’s car collided with Francis Schulty’s.  Pauline Regensberg , Rosamund Dean were with Mary and a negro maid with Francis.    Rosamund was worst hurt, her chin bone broken and many teeth lost!  Pauline came next with a broken arm, swollen eye, severed artery just under the knee and sprained ankle.  Sounds worse but weren’t so disfiguring or permanent.   Alyce Claire took Rosamund and Pauline to Encino – Betty and I stayed with the cars till some men came to take care of them.  The two had to say in the hospital.

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Nazi Germany announced a general inspection of all vehicles in the country to determine and catalogue their suitability for military use in the event of an emergency.

Boeing’s  Model 299 crashed during a test flight at  a  flight competition for airplane manufacturers vying to build its next-generation long-range bomber.  The competition was held by the U.S. Army Air-Corps at Wright air Field in Dayton , Ohio.  After this tragedy the Air Corps personnel developed checklists the crew would follow for takeoff, flight, before landing, and after landing.

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(This is an entry from the journal entitled “Mexico Summer” written by Elizabeth Whipple Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago)

Hair fixed, convention cards given out and I am getting all set for Albuquerque tomorrow.  This time tomorrow I’ll be with Jeanette and Pauline.  Guess Mahota wont be there – So she wrote but I wish she were!  Got my dress from Mrs. Parker.  It was a little large bit it will do to take to the convention.  Mrs. Wilmot came to see Mary – Alyce Claire had a date to the high school operetta with  *Father Akin!

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Mussolini proclaimed food restrictions, going into effect November 5, in order to fight the effects of boycotting and sanctions. Butcher shops were to close on Tuesdays and were forbidden from selling beef, veal, mutton, lamb or pork on Wednesdays. Since butcher shops already usually closed on Thursdays and most Italians refrained from eating meat on Fridays, the decree amounted to a half-week ban on meat.

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(This is an entry from the journal entitled “Mexico Summer” written by Elizabeth Whipple Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago)

Went to Mrs. Parker’s and the dress fit perfectly!  She certainly is a seamstress!  We have a new teacher in Junior High – his name is Earl Ellis and his is tall and blond and looks young!  Too bad!

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Diving exhibition. Navy Day was celebrated at the Washington Navy Yard by various exhibitions including the diving show

Civilians in Mek’ele were ordered to evacuate in anticipation of an Italian offensive.

A new Time magazine with Bruno, Benito & Vittorio Mussolini on the cover.

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(This is an entry from the journal entitled “Mexico Summer” written by Elizabeth Whipple Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago)

Taught my girls for the first time. Jeanne Marsh, Adele Green, Marjorie Scannell, Eizabeth Loller and Martha White are regular members and Vernice Rinehart is joining the class.   Oh yes, Ginger McCune is a member but she has never come!  Went with Mary to the Christian Science Church and enjoyed it for its novelty.   The songs were entirely different and the sermon was readings from the Bible and Mary Baker Eddy – Miss Garrett is the soloist – A good many things that were read were a little beyond me.  I can’t swallow the interpretation of one woman as they can – They have a pretty church building surrounded by a large lawn and shrubs.  Still no word from Dad.  Am anxious to see Mrs. Martens when she returns.::  She called later to say that Dad was returned as was Dr. Linebaugh, but Hightower comes as presiding elder. Ty-Ty was at Conference today!  Had a chance to ride up with someone.  Mary Jo was also there for a day or so!  Wish I could hear from home!

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Two branch offices of the First Wisconsin National Bank were bombed in the second of a series of four  terror attacks involving bombs in Milwaukee.

Albert Einstein and Thomas Mann endorsed Carl von Ossietzky for the Nobel Peace Prize. Ossietzky had been imprisoned in the Esterwegen concentration camp since February 1934

A new Popeye.

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(This is an entry from the journal entitled “Mexico Summer” written by Elizabeth Whipple Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago)

Went to see Betty about going over there tonight to eat Bud’s cheese.   She didn’t invite us in and could talk only of the new things she had bought (meow!) so we did not feel very welcome!  Perhaps the less seen, the better:  I took a shorthand lesson and gave Mary quite a vocabulary list, also rules for pronunciation!

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Due to a food shortage in the Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, Nazi Germany proclaimed meatless and butterless days for those regions on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

During a speech commemorating the 13th anniversary of the March on Rome, Benito Mussolini called international sanctions against Italy “the most odious of injustices”

On her 12th birthday, Frances Gumm better known as Judy Garland,  made her singing debut on the Wallace Berry NBC radio show.

Disney’s three kitten open in theaters.

A new New Yorker and Saturday Evening Post.

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(This is an entry from the journal entitled “Mexico Summer” written by Elizabeth Whipple Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago)

Went to see “Smilin’ Through” with Norma Sherer and Frederic March – Very sweet and sad!  Quite a few snifflers in the audience and I would have been one but I knew what was coming in the story and called up the old self control!

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2,500 died in Haiti from floods caused by the Jérémie hurricane.

British Parliament was dissolved and a general election called for November 14.

The underground miners’ strike ended in South Wales.

A new Popeye.

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(This is an entry from the journal entitled “Mexico Summer” written by Elizabeth Whipple Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago)

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The Río Piedras massacre occurred at the University of Puerto Rico in Río Piedras.

Winston Churchill warned that Nazi Germany was a greater threat to peace than the war in Abyssinia. “We cannot afford to see Nazidom in its present phase of cruelty and intolerance, with all its hatreds and all its gleaming weapons, paramount in Europe at the present time”, he told the House of Commons.

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