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Monday October 12, 1936

The story continues with the second journal.  This is an entry from her personal diary, bydiary 2Elizabeth Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago. Click here to read more.

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

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A shipment of 50 T-26 tanks and some BA-3 armoured cars from the Soviet Union arrived in Cartagena to aid the Spanish Republic.

Cross-channel train ferry service began between Dover and Dunkirk. The service made it possible to ride in the same sleeping car from London all the way to Paris

Lord Linlithgowd is on the cover of this week’s Time Magazine

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FDR at Denver Colorado
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Rupert, this photo shows the Type 59 Bugatti after it crashed in practice one day before the 1936 Vanderbilt Cup Race held

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chicago Daily Tribune October 12, 1936
Chicago Daily Tribune October 12, 1936