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

Practiced organ and washed but I didn’t open my eyes until 9 A.M. – talking to Mary Ownby has given me an idea to really take up shorthand in earnest and try for a place in foreign service.  She is willing to help me over the hard places!  She said she thought they would start me in at $125 – per month* and in a short time I’d get $1800 a year!** Not bad – and certainly more pleasant than what I am doing now!  We’ll see!

* $125 is $2,171.03 today.

**$1800 is $31,262.85 today.

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

The sanctions committee of the League of Nations approved a British proposal for a complete boycott of Italian goods.

A new New Yorker and Saturday Evening Post.

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