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

Practiced organ and washed but I didn’t open my eyes until 9 A.M. – talking to Mary Ownby has given me an idea to really take up shorthand in earnest and try for a place in foreign service.  She is willing to help me over the hard places!  She said she thought they would start me in at $125 – per month* and in a short time I’d get $1800 a year!** Not bad – and certainly more pleasant than what I am doing now!  We’ll see!

* $125 is $2,171.03 today.

**$1800 is $31,262.85 today.

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

The sanctions committee of the League of Nations approved a British proposal for a complete boycott of Italian goods.

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)

Honor Club program at school – Letter from  Ty-Ty saying Dad is OK. Got a permanent for $3.50* at Daniel’s. Was there from a little after 4PM  until after 7.   It was worth it.

*$3.50 is the same as $60.79 today

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

The Helena earthquake occurred in Montana killing 4 people.

The German cabinet convened in Berlin for its first fall session and promulgated a new law forbidding marriage in the case of either party having a hereditary disease.

The official publication of the Nuremberg Laws was postponed due to fears of an international boycott of the 1936 Summer Olympics if they went into effect beforehand.

In the port of Alexandria, two boiler explosions on the Italian liner Ausonia killed 6 and injured 20.

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

P.T.A. Meeting – Letter from Dit – Heard Nino Martini in “Here’s to Romanche” wit the best tenor singing I’ve yet.   Opera, semi-classical and popular gets sung – Should have gone to Messiah but I have been blue all afternoon-

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

Hans Schweitzer was appointed Germany’s Reichsbeauftragten für künstlerische Formgebung (Reich Commissioner for Artistic Design)

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