(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!

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

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)

No post today:

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

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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