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Saturday May 8, 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.

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

Italy recalled its news correspondents from London and banned all British newspapers except for the Daily Mail, The Observer and The Evening News. The move was believed to have been taken in reaction to the British press mocking the recent defeats of Italian troops in the Spanish Civil War.

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Challenge Cup logoWidnes defeated Keighley 18-5 in to win rugby’s Challenge Cup in front of 47,699 at Wembley Stadium.

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The Montreux Convention Regarding the Abolition of the Capitulations in Egypt was concluded.

A new New Yorker and Saturday Evening Post magazine

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The Chicago Daily Tribune May 8, 1937

Saturday May 2, 1936

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.

April has gone!  Slept late today. Paid some bills and practiced for tomorrow.  Saw Margaret Douglas but I can’t remember her name now.  She has gained 20 pounds since I saw her last.  I guess that was in Tucumcari. Washed.

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

A new Saturday Evening Post and New Yorker

Parliamentary elections were held in Egypt, won by the Wafd Party.

 

 

 

Bold Venture won the Kentucky Derby.

The Sergei Prokofiev composition Peter and the Wolf premiered in Moscow

 

 

 

Temple prepare for the Second Sino-Japanese War as they wear gas masks during training against future aerial attacks in Tokyo, Japan

 

Chicago Daily Tribune May 2, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune May 2, 1936