Tuesday, August 7, 1934

Today we ironed. Aunt Kate's came by and we went to the book shop.

First La-Z-Boy recliner, a folding wood-slat porch chair

In the 1920s, two young cousins from Michigan (Edward Knabusch and
Edward Shoemaker) quit their jobs to pursue the American dream. Edwin
was a woodworker for a company and Edward was a farmer who loved to
tinker with gadgets. The "two Eds" poured their talents and their money
into their Floral City Furniture Company, each taking only a $5 per week
salary to get it up and running. Using orange crates to mock-up their idea,
they invented the reclining mechanism that eventually led, in 1929, to their
first upholstered recliner. Then they held a contest to name the chair and
the La-Z-Boy Recliner was born.

Monday, August 6, 1934

We washed today. Sure was hot. Had a big wash. Pauline and I went back to the Medicine Show.

Cimarroncita Ranch Camp - New Mexico

Cimarroncita was built in 1908 to accommodate New Mexico tourists who took a scenic railroad train – the St. Louis, Rocky Mountain and Pacific Railway Excursion Line – to this beautiful corner of the Roadrunner State. A Texan, Minnette Thompson, bought the hotel in 1930 and established the Cimarroncita Ranch Camp for Girls. A camp for boys soon followed.

Minnette and her family ran the camps until 1995. Her relative and namesake Minnette Burges and husband Alan Huerta renovated the camp and reopened as Cimarroncita Ranch in 2005.



Sunday, August 5, 1934

Didn't go to church or Sunday school. Pauline came down and we traded books. I got some mysteries.

The first Dana Girls mystery novel

The Dana Girls was a series of young adult mystery novels produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate. The title heroines, Jean and Louise Dana, are teenage sisters and amateur detectives who solve mysteries while at boarding school. The series was created in 1934 in an attempt to capitalize on the popularity of both the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories and the Hardy Boys series, but was less successful than either. The series was written by a number of ghostwriters and, despite going out-of-print twice, lasted from 1934 to 1979; the books have also been translated into a number of other languages.

Saturday, August 4, 1934

Gweyn Richards family moved today. Laten came by and wanted to take me out to Helen's, but Mother wouldn't let me go. Daddy had a wreck.

Tony Martin (December 25, 1913 – July 27, 2012)

Born Alvin Morris, Martin was an American actor and singer who was married to performer Cyd Charisse for 60 years. He began recording in
1938 and had numerous hits, including the still popular To Each His Own.
Martin appeared in film musicals and was a featured vocalist on the George
Burns and Gracie Allen radio show. He was preceded in death by his wife
and their son, Tony Martin, Jr.

Friday, August 3, 1934

I baked a cake. Helped Gweyn a little. Sure hot. Kate's were over. Went to the Medicine Show.

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Thursday, August 2, 1934

Didn't do much today. Sure was hot. Gweyn Richards is going to move. Nadine and Ruth Ray came down.

Paul von Hindenburg (October 2, 1847 - August 2, 1934)
Second President of Germany
Second President of the German Reich
Preceded by Friedrich Ebert
Succeeded by Adolf Hitler (Führer and Chancellor)

A Prussian-German field marshal, statesman and politician, von
Hindenburg is commonly remembered as as the man who as German President appointed Nazi leader Adolf Hitler as Chancellor Germany.  Hindenburg personally despised Hitler, condescendingly referring to Hitler as that "Bohemian corporal."

The famed zeppelin Hindenburg that was destroyed by fire in 1937
was named in his honor

Wednesday, August 1, 1934

Straightened up the house. Pauline and the girls came down. Aunt Katie's came over here.

The Shadow - August 1, 1934 edition

Featuring Gray Fist by Maxwell Grant

Synopsis:

"I have just freed myself from the power of a fiend; whispered Worth Varden. "A fiend who would stop at nothing. A supercriminal whose schemes are but in the making...."


Hours later, Varden was dead. And with him went all he knew about the worldwide dope-dealing and blackmail empire of the all-powerful crime baron known only as...Gray Fist.

Gray Fist--so treacherous that he found no act too vile, no lie too base to inflate his ill-gotten wealth. Gray Fist--so secretive that even his closest henchmen could not guess his secret identity. Gray Fist--so diabolically cunning that his climb to power seemed unstoppable.

Was there anywhere a crime fighter so agile of brain and hand that he could match wits with this infamous lord of the underworld? There was--lurking in the darkness, laughing a soft eerie laugh, stealing into the innermost sanctuaries of the forces of evil, facing single-handed the guns of mobsters by the dozen... The Shadow!