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.
Got to Loredo – the customs men hardly looked at my bags. Then an air conditioned car to San Antonio! And a room at St. Anthony!
Here’s what else was happening 80-years-ago today:
Japanese infantrymen advance with rifles and grenades in the Peking sector in China
Portugal severed diplomatic relations with Czechoslovakia over a broken armaments contract. Czechoslovakia broke the contract because it suspected Portugal of funneling the arms to the Nationalists in Spain.
Nazi Germany restricted Jewish booksellers to only selling books by Jewish authors to Jewish customers
Erieville, NY gets a new fire truck
The WPA Theatre production of “Power,” in San Francisco. “Power” was a play that explored the issue of public vs. private control of energy.
A new Popeye.
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