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Tuesday October 19, 1937

diary 2The story continues with the second journal. This is an entry from her personal diary, by Elizabeth Lancaster

No post today.

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

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Italy raised taxes significantly in an effort to meet the cost of increased arms production and maintaining its colonies

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A group of small people visiting Sam Rayburn,  the Speaker of the House of Representatives, in Washington DC

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Ernest Rutherford

 Ernest Rutherford, The father of Nuclear Physics passes away.

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A woman churns butter at the Agriculture show in London.

 

 

 

 

 

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Big Town‘ aired on CBS for the first time

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