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

Choir practice as usual. Should have been to P.T.A. Meeting, too, but couldn’t make both.  Mrs. Brenneman said if anybody asked, to blame her!  Bernard brought me home but in the course of the journey (!?) we stopped at Bess and Prentice White’s to see about a trunk for Mrs. B.  We played a game called 3 little pigs, played like Parchesi (?) but lots more fun –

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Persia was officially renamed. From this moment on the map of Asia appeared the state of Iran. According to the authorities, foreign representatives were not allowed to use the name “Persia.”

Hitler’s moves making everyone nervous.

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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)

Ty-Ty left today at 1:00. Jack LeBaron took her to the bus. Surely do miss her and I can think of any number of things we should have discussed . Bought some white oxfords.  Went to covered dish supper at the church of the choir.  Bernard was there.  We and Alyce Claire saw Mr. Stanton at the show and they left shortly.  Bernard brought me right home.  Made tentative plans for tennis perhaps Friday.  Hope I get to play quite a bit this spring. Letter from Mahota suggests I owe her!!

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Although Topeka lay outside the area affected most by the Dust Bowl, residents of Topeka did suffer from blinding dust storms. This photograph depicts a particularly fierce storm that hit Topeka on March 20, 1935.

Germany shows off it’s planes.

The American radio show “Your Hit Parade” makes its debut on the airwaves. In the following years, it becomes the jumping point for many of the most successful singers and artists in the music industry.

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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)

Went to Little’s for supper.   Ty-Ty spent the afternoon. Saw the grandchild’s picture – Very Pleasant.  Went to school today with out a coat!  Spring has come!! Mrs. Little suggested a place in consular service along the border if I had a knowledge of typing and shorthand – I don’t but Carsey does!!!

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Harlem’s first race riot takes place in New York.  Three died, hundreds were injured and there were millions of dollars of damage.  France contemplates the prospect of war.

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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)

For supper Ty-Ty and I go to Burdette’s.  I leave for a teacher’s meeting – went back to Burdette’s later.

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The first “Shelterbelt”  in the nation is planted in Southwestern Oklahoma.  It was a project to create windbreaks in the Great Plains states of the United States to prevent Dust Bowl conditions.

The British government sent a note to Berlin protesting against Germany’s adoption of military conscription.

A mysterious Robot Plane flies over California skies.

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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)

Ty-Ty went to both services. After church in the evening (bum preacher from Colorado!) we went to Mrs. Martens for supper – She told my fortune again.  Repeated what she told me before about being married soon. And I am to meet a blond who is wealthy and who is to be a good friend!

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China’s Wang Jingwei is on the cover of a new Time Magazine.

Today was designated Hero’s Remembrance Day in Germany.

The dreaded headline hits the Sunday paper.   Is a World War in the future?

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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)

Shopped for a hat – no success – Ordered a pair of shoes – Ty-Ty gets tired easily.  Fooled around most of the day –

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Hitler announces he will re-arm Germany.  This is a direct violation of the Treaty of Versailles. The dust storms become  more severe.

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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)

Mary-Jo’s birthday!  Sweet sixteen! My assembly program today.  Went off very well.  I seem to be able to depend on quite a few of my children- Thank goodness.  Had a trial with Jack Havens as judge, Quinton Daniel and Albert Robson as lawyers!  Ty-Ty, Alyce Claire and I went to Pete’s and Velma’s tonight for supper and games.  Who should be there but Bernard!  Haven’t seen him in – I don’t know how long! Stayed until almost eleven.  Gorgeous night –

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Nazi’s march into the Rhineland

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The Mississippi is ready to crest.

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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)

Ty-Ty ate lunch with us all three meals – met Lenore Shaffer   Mrs. Martens called in the P.M. and invited us for Sunday evening.  I had to go to choir practice but Ty-Ty and I walked around afterwards – How we ever talked!  I left practice early and it was 9 o-clock then!

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Ty-Ty came in from Van Horn about 7:00 P.M. with Harry Mulroy! What a grand surprise!  I was expecting her some time this week-end but not before Thursday.  She ate supper at Mrs. Grady’s – Mrs. G is treating me for my cold!

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The Mississippi is flooding, Bombs are on the streets in Havana and the Greeks may turn to a firing squad to control riots.

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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)

Saw “We Live Again” with Alyce Claire and Betty Johnson.  I liked it but I think they didn’t.  Anna Sten and Frederick March played in it. It was a story of Russian peasants and nobles.  I seem to be getting a cold so Mrs. Grady doped me up grandly. Hope it works!  God a bulletin from English School at Middleburg College – Wrote asking them about the Spanish School!  Wrote to Ty-Ty, Jonathon.

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Cotton takes a roller coaster ride.

Louisiana Governor Huey P. Long, AKA The Kingfish addressed the nation via the radio in his famous ‘Share the Wealth‘ speech.

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