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.
Wrote Mrs. Berkness and Jaime – Played tennis about 1/2 hour but the wind had too much sand in it! Visited with Palmers awhile
Here’s what else was happening 80-years-ago today
Eleanor Roosevelt christens the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown.
Gangster Lucky Luciano is arrested in Hot Springs Arkansas. Shortly afterwards, New York City’s “Racket Buster”, Thomas E. Dewey had him extradited back to Manhattan.
A new New Yorker and Saturday Evening Post
Spectators at Upton Park watching a football match between West Ham and Aston Villa on 4th April 1936, view an eclipse of the sun during play.
The Big Blow Out is released. Porky Pig helps people in the streets in order to get cash quick to buy an ice-cream soda. Meanwhile a mad bomber is terrorizing the city.
On orders from the German Labour Front, industrial workers who did not vote in the March 29 elections were fired from their jobs as “slackers”.
Cambridge won the 88th Boat Race.
The airship LZ 129 Hindenburg completed its first transatlantic flight, arriving in Rio de Janeiro. From April 6 to 10 it flew back to Germany
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The shortest pro boxing match in history took place in 
Got “While Rome Burns” by Alexander Woolcott yesterday and am enjoying it muchly – I might even want to keep it – Finished “Valiant is the Word for Carrie” by Barry Benefield which wasn’t too bad but 
I think I wouldn’t recommend it. P.T.A. today! Letter from MacMillan wanting money on book or book on trail returned. They’ll probably get the book! Mrs. Grady’s was closed today because Joyce has Scarlet Fever! Saw Mrs. Burdette in the P.O. and she wants me to help in a Mexico project in the Junior Department! Will I! If I can! Lorraine Klyng is back in Roswell sans a job – we discussed her going into Hobbs and opening a beauty shop
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The radio adventure program 
3:15. The baby came at 6 but it was dead. The less said, the better. It was a terrible shock to everyone, she had been so perfectly healthy. We left about 7 and got back in time to give 2 exams. I gave Joyce some chloroform but aside from that I rather stayed out of it – Haven’t been much good all the rest of the day. My first experience with a birth but I hope it is not my last. There followed a bitter discussion on A.C’s part on life in general and having families and suffering in particular. Poor girl! She has been through too much in the last few months. Wish I could do something for her that would really help.
