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.

We arrived late everywhere – At Guerrero I asked about opals and was besieged with agate and poor opals.   They were not happy when I bought nothing!!

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

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr. and Ethel du Pont were married in Wilmington, Delaware in the American society wedding of the decade.

German Reichminister of Church Affairs Hanns Kerrl decreed state control of Protestant church funds. The government now controlled all aspects of the churches’ financial activities, right down to ministers’ salaries.

Portugal stopped co-operating with the Non-Intervention Committee patrol agreement and ordered British observers off its soil.

The emergency number 999 was introduced in the United Kingdom, the first emergency telephone number of its kind in the world

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