Daily Archives: January 18, 2017

Monday January 18, 1937

The story continues with the second journal.  This is an entry from her personal diary, diary 2by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.

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

 

The Ohio River flood began when the river exceeded the flood stage of 52 feet.

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Hitler authorized the creation of Adolf Hitler Schools, special new schools for gifted boys 12 to 18 that would prepare them for the NS-Ordensburgen.

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William S. Knudsen is on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine

Image result for january 18, 1937Aunt Jenny’s Real Life Stories was aired for the first time by CBS

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Striking Seamen picket Commerce Department
Chicago Daily Tribune January 18, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune January 18, 1937

 

Sunday January 17, 1937

The story continues with the second journal.  This is an entry from her personal diary, diary 2by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.

No post today

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

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The Hughes Aircraft H-1 racer was used by millionaire Howard Hughes to set the speed record from Los Angeles to New York

 

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A prison riot broke out near Guelph, Canada. Inmates started fires and fought police for ten hours until order was restored. An estimated $250,000 in damage was done and it was feared that 200 of the prison’s 700 inmates had escaped.

The Soviet Union sent Britain a note on the Spanish Civil War explaining that the Soviet government, although it “presently does not practice the dispatchment of volunteer detachments, does not consider it expedient to adopt unilateral prohibitive measures.”

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It’s the first day in a week that rain has not fallen in the Midwest.   The Ohio River is already past flood stage and is expected to crest Sunday.

Chicago Daily Tribune January 17, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune January 17, 1937