Miners | 80 Years Ago Today

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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.

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

An estimated 400,000 students demonstrated nationwide in the second year of a student movement protesting global militarization. Here about 500 students walked out of class at Lincoln High School in Tacoma, Washington

Singer, and future Beach Boy, Glen Campbell was born in Arkansas

Germany announced that Eckener Avenue in Berlin, named after the Zeppelin commander Hugo Eckener, would be renamed Adolf Hitler Street.

Porky Pig takes on an angry bird in Porky’s Poultry Plant

(The story continues with the second journal. This is an entry from her personal diary, written by Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more)

Alyce Claire got back from Tatum just in time for school. Letter from Ty-Ty says Dit thinks I am going to be an auntie! Ojala! say I! She suggests Laredo as a good place for me to work with Spanish. Ty-Ty plans to go home today. Gave Lorenzo Burciaga a test for Merit badge in interpreting (Spanish). Mary has a cold and has stayed in bed all day. I wish this were next week so exams would be all over with and new work started. Broke crystal of my watch yesterday so I took it down to Mr. Bullock to have it fixed – Nothing infuriates me more –

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

Physicist Arthur Compton is on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine