Monthly Archives: February 2016

Saturday February 29, 1936

February 29, 2016Postsavalanche, Italy Victory, japan, Neutrality Act, snowShanna Vicker

The story continues with the second journal. This is an entry from her personal diary, by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.

Awoke at 9 but read in bed until 12 – After lunch felt like I was taking cold in my eyes so broke off the tennis date and went to bed. Went to Rozella Kropp’s birthday party sans gift – I’d forgotten, and did I ever feel small! Met Zelpha Bates and enjoyed an evening of Contract. Home at 12! Mr. Moen came by in the afternoon and tried to sell insurance for sickness and accident. By paying $7 quarterly I get quite a benefit and I’m never sick! However, I think I’ll try it Mr. Moen used to know Dad in Las Vegas.

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

A new Saturday Evening Post and New Yorker

The Second Battle of Tembien ended in an Italian victory.

The Japanese coup attempt was put down and rebel troops return home.

President Roosevelt extended the 1935 Neutrality Act through May 1, 1937

An avalanche covered a Northern Pacific RR Passenger Train in Couer D’Alene, Idaho.

The snow in Detroit Lakes Minnesota

1936 snow DL ant back

Friday February 28, 1936

February 28, 2016Postscommerce, japan, Rail, WeatherShanna Vicker

The story continues with the second journal. This is an entry from her personal diary, by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.

The show last night was really magnificent! Well portrayed and good theme – Charlotte and Lorene Klyng, Mary Ownby, Julia Ruth Markham, Alyce Claire, and I went in a group. Don’t hope to see a better for a long time. Went for my new spring coat and loved it – Met up with Evelyn Polk and she agreed to play tennis tomorrow. Went to Martens for supper and cards in which latter past-time I was entirely unsuccessful! I always enjoy them

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

The Interstate Commerce Commission ordered a reduction in basic rail passenger fares from 3.6 to 2 cents per mile everywhere in the United States

The weather still a problem.

Thursday February 27, 1936

February 27, 2016PostsEhtiopia, France, japan, Magnificent Obsession, shirley temple, Tembien, treaty, WinterShanna Vicker

The story continues with the second journal. This is an entry from her personal diary, by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.

Dad left at noon. Brs. Jones took us to the station then me to school. Bought blue & white big checked spring coat! aaaa Got invitation to midnight show of “Magnificent Obsession” Get in free so I am surely going!

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

The Second Battle of Tembien began on Ethiopia’s northern front.

The French Chamber of Deputies ratified the Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance, 353 to 164.

Shirley Temple receives a new contract with 20th Century Fox Studios.

The cost of Winter.

Chicago Daily Tribune Feb 27, 1936 pg 13

Wednesday February 26, 1936

February 26, 2016PostsHitler, Japan Incident, Milk, VolkswagenShanna Vicker

The story continues with the second journal. This is an entry from her personal diary, by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.

School as usual – Went to Martens in the afternoon and to Burdettes for waffles. Dad went over to Mr. Pends to settle about the lot. We talked quite a bit about the church, My work, Ty-Ty, Jaime and many other things

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

The 2-26 Incident was an attempted coup d’état in Japan. It was organized by a group of young Imperial Japanese Army officers with the goal of purging the government and military leadership of their factional rivals and ideological opponents.

In Saxony, Hitler opened the first Volkswagen production plant

The Got Milk campaign gets a boost with a new neon sign outside the Detroit Creamery Co.

Tuesday February 25, 1936

February 25, 2016PostsCoast Guard, snow, Tin Pan Alley, World WarShanna Vicker

The story continues with the second journal. This is an entry from her personal diary, by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.

Telegram from Dad saying he will be here at seven on the bus. That evening we went to Burdette’s and rode by Velma’s but I knew she wasn’t home

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

The Sun is back – now the work begins to clear away the snow in the Mid-West.

2-22-1936 3 — https://clarksonhistory.wordpress.com/2015/01/16/another-winter-of-our-discontent-1936/

Artists from Tin Pan Alley such as Rudy Vallée, George Gershwin and Irving Berlin came to Washington to fight a bill affecting the copyrighting of popular songs

The first in its class of life boats…the Coast Guard 36-Foot Motor Lifeboat Underway in Cleveland

The British Foreign Secretary warns of the possibility of a second World War.

Monday February 24, 1936

February 24, 2016PostsBig Thaw, Prime Minister, Time MagazineShanna Vicker

The story continues with the second journal. This is an entry from her personal diary, by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more

The new teacher is here to take Mr. Sprinkle’s place . A Mr. Gilbert who might be said to resemble Carsey in a seedy vague sort of way. He majored in Geology & graduated about 10-years-ago but looks as though he was just out. Read more of “While Rome Burns” Quite Good-

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

A new Time Magazine

Anthony Eden addressed the House of Commons for the first time as Foreign Secretary. He responded to criticism of the League of Nations failing to impose oil sanctions on Italy by explaining that oil was “a sanction like any other and must be judged by the same criterion, whether its imposition will help stop the war.

In the final week of February a thaw finally came to the nation. Temperatures rose above freezing for the first time in up to eleven weeks

Sunday February 23, 1936

February 23, 2016PostsEinstein, Ether, FDR, Mail, Puerto Rico, Relativity, RocketShanna Vicker

The story continues with the second journal. This is an entry from her personal diary, by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more

S.S. and Church as usual. Bro Jones canceled evening service because of his throat – Played tennis for about an hour in the afternoon even though it was quite windy.

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

Willy Ley became the first U.S. Postman to deliver his mail by Rocket in Greenwood Lake New Jersey

Puerto Rico‘s Chief of Police E. Francis Riggs was shot and killed by two young Nationalists. The two assailants were captured and executed immediately without trial

The theory of Ether is presented – if correct it would dismiss Einstein‘s theory of relativity.

Saturday February 22, 1936

February 22, 2016Postscold wave, Nazi Germany, Virginia Reel, Walter JohnsonShanna Vicker

The story continues with the second journal. This is an entry from her personal diary, written by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more

grand time

Dancing the Virginia reel vintage2068.rssing.com

Had letter from both places in L.A. Matson won’t do. Lenore came up in P.M. Alyce Claire and I played tennis for over an hour (from 10:30 to 12:15) then found Lenore waiting when we got back. Shopped a little and watched crowds. Went to Wolfe’s with Lenore at night. Played Pitch until 11:00 then they rolled up the rugs and we danced everything. Virginia Reel, Polka, Watty, Little Shoe, Schotische (?) and had the grandest time this year. Got home at 1:30. Sam Sherman bumped up against me during the first Virginia Reel and broke my glasses! More poor luck!

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

On George Washington‘s 204th birthday, retired baseball legend Walter Johnson replicated a feat attributed to Washington by throwing a silver dollar across the Rappahannock River. Though it remained in dispute whether Washington ever did such a thing, Johnson did prove that it could be done.

Nazi Germany established quotas for Jewish doctors. The decree by Gerhard Wagner stated that the proportion of Jewish doctors in Germany could not exceed the proportion of Jews in the country’s general population

2-22-1936 4 — https://clarksonhistory.wordpress.com/2015/01/16/another-winter-of-our-discontent-1936/

The weather is getting warmer but the roads are still blocked in Iowa as a result of the 1936 North American Cold Wave.

A new New Yorker and Saturday Evening Post

Friday February 21, 1936

February 21, 2016Postscold wave, fire, Hindenburg, Spanish political prisonersShanna Vicker

The story continues with the second journal. This is an entry from her personal diary, written by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more

Letter from Salt Lake Public Schools – Am going to answer it soon. Took another long walk today with Alyce Claire. This time Mary went along. Got food card at Cafeteria. Wrote several days ago to the Matson Steamship line in Los Angeles about routes and prices. Also wrote to L.A. Chamber of Commerce about other steamship offices. Ty-Ty says Dad is planning to be here the 25th for two days. Surely hope he can make it this time.

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

The 1936 North American Cold Wave – New York City.

Fire and ice: Ice-coated fire engines are pictured following a fire in February 1936 at 33rd Street

The new Spanish government freed 34,000 political prisoners

The Hindenburg making its first landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey

Thursday February 20, 1936

February 20, 2016PostsGermany, Hauptmann, Hitler, Rebels, SpainShanna Vicker

The story continues with the second journal. This is an entry from her personal diary, written by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more

Got “While Rome Burns” by Alexander Woolcott yesterday and am enjoying it muchly – I might even want to keep it – Finished “Valiant is the Word for Carrie” by Barry Benefield which wasn’t too bad but I think I wouldn’t recommend it. P.T.A. today! Letter from MacMillan wanting money on book or book on trail returned. They’ll probably get the book! Mrs. Grady’s was closed today because Joyce has Scarlet Fever! Saw Mrs. Burdette in the P.O. and she wants me to help in a Mexico project in the Junior Department! Will I! If I can! Lorraine Klyng is back in Roswell sans a job – we discussed her going into Hobbs and opening a beauty shop

Here’s what else is happening 80-years-ago today

A young surgeon amputates a mans arm from 50 feet in the air with a hack-saw. The man was dangling up-side-down between a fallen crane and a girder, his arm stuck between the two objects. The temperature was zero and he was conscious during the surgery which was lit by flashlights. The man survived and was taken to the local hospital.

Hitler reviews 35,000 SA troops celebrating the third anniversary of his assumption of power

Police in Spain fired on crowds of leftists attempting to burn churches and convents. 8 deaths were reported around the country.

The science fiction film Things to Come, written by H. G. Wells, premiered in Britain.

The musical comedy film Follow the Fleet starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers with music by Irving Berlin was released.

80 Years Ago Today

Mexico Summer: A journal by Elizabeth Carsey

Monthly Archives: February 2016

Saturday February 29, 1936

Friday February 28, 1936

Thursday February 27, 1936

Wednesday February 26, 1936

Tuesday February 25, 1936

Monday February 24, 1936

Sunday February 23, 1936

Saturday February 22, 1936

Friday February 21, 1936

Thursday February 20, 1936

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