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Saturday July 31, 1937

The story continues with the second journal. This is an entry from her personal diary,

diary 2by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.

Started to the museum but it was closed!  Went to Academy of San Carlos and bought some music.  Ate at Mrs. Somebody’s Tea Room. came home and learned how to knit!

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

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Belfast was shaken by a land mine explosion in the West End, 50 yards from a police barracks

A new New Yorker and Saturday Evening Post magazine

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A young John F Kennedy on the beach

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Chicago Daily Tribune July 31, 1937
Chicago Daily Tribune July 31, 1937