Thelma and Lowell's Diary: Nov. 11, 1926

They buy some gifts; FDR lays wreath and heads to Tehran

Thelma and Lowell did more gift shopping today, buying a sweater and slips for his mother and a handkerchief for Thelma’s sister Reva. The gifts set them back $6.94, over $123 in current funds. This picture is of a collection of colorful 1940s hankies being offered on eBay.

In Washington, President Roosevelt went to Arlington National Cemetery for the traditional Veterans Day wreath-laying at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. That night, he left for his trip to the Cairo conference with Winston Churchill and Chiang Kai-Shek, the leaders of Great Britain and Nationalist China, and the Tehran Conference, with Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. To read on, you’ll need to be a paid subscriber. Won’t you treat yourself to the full Thelma and Lowell experience by upgrading to paid? If you think you aren’t getting 16 cents a day out of it, you can always cancel.