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

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

Flying ants were plaguing London, England, even stopping a tennis tournament. Heaps of the noxious insects were invading pantries and piling up on doorsteps. Authorities claim that this was the worst attack of pestilence in a quarter of a century.

Ethiopian Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen reviewed 100,000 tribal warriors near Gondar.^[11

39,195 boxing fans at Comiskey Park in Chicago watched Joe Louis knock out King Levinsky in the first round.

7 Italians were killed in a plane crash in Egypt, including Public Works Minister Luigi Razza.^[

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