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.

Mrs. McWhorten’s barn caught fire – quite some excitement for awhile. put out with chemicals from the light plant.  Washed with Mrs. Garwan’s washer. It’s a snap that way! Jonathon came Sat morning.

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

A total Solar Eclipse

In London, representatives of Argentina, Australia, Great Britain, Ireland, Norway, South Africa, Germany and the United States reached an agreement to stop the dangerous reduction of the world’s whale stocks through whaling.

The German Postal Ministry decreed that all non-Aryans must retire.

The Carl Orff composition Carmina Burana premiered in Frankfurt.

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