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

Bought 3 pieces of materials for dresses and organdie for the top of my pink – Hope to get Mrs. Parker, whom Mrs. Martens knows to make them for me. A Mrs. Parker sewed for me last year in Gallup too. Saw “Gilded Lily” – Good too.  Wrote to Carsey – Pauline called but couldn’t stay long – even to come up to see me!

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

News of a Christmas day slaying in China just now reaches the U.S.  Witnesses report that  the hacked bodies of a Brittish and a Swiss Missionary were seen lying in the streets of  Changteh, Hunan Province.

A new Saturday Evening Post.

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