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

Best day at school in a long time. Really feel like I am accomplishing a little something.  Bernard ate with me and Alyce Claire at Mrs. Grady’s.  B and I went immediately to see “Country Chairman” with Will Rogers. He brought me home and went to work awhile!

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

Troops guard the Louisiana State capital, the Mississippi floods are deadly and the State takes aim at Hauptmann.

Newsreel 1935 Weather Archival Newsreel and Footage PublicDomainFootage.com

Newsreel length: 1:03. 1960 newsreel looking back at 1935‘s devastating weather events
Iceland becomes 1st country to legalize abortion.

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