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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1922
Page
2
A collection of Christmas requests from children ages six to eight, asking for dolls, toy wagons, bicycles, writing desks, balls, trains, and candy. Many include 10 cents or a dime for the Empty Stocking fund and mention family members. The letters reveal simple desires and a charitable appeal during the season.
A child writes to Santa Claus asking for fruit and a basketball this Christmas. He explains poverty and mentions his little brother, sending a note that also includes a 10 cent contribution to the Empty Stocking fund signed by Frank Broadhurst.
A collection of short requests and donations from youngsters. A seven year old asks Santa for a cowboy suit a velocipede a false face and candy. Enclosed funds for Cecelia Bankston and Emty Stocking Fund. Letters signed Emmett Hart junior and Junior Dorsey requesting cap pistol watch Indian suit candy fire works fruit.
Bob Anglin holds a freak hog and recently rejected an offer of 1000 dollars for the animal. The note records Anglin as the possessor and mentions the failed sale proposal.
A seven month old hog weighing about 60 pounds draws attention at a Tampa circus. It has four fully developed hams, a perfectly formed head, a mid back tail, and bears some resemblance in appearance and sound to a bear, though it shows the color of the Duroc Jersey breed.
The animal, if not an exception, shares the common hog’s voracious appetite and is fed along with the rest of the hogs on the Anglin place. The fragment suggests standard husbandry practices for swine kept there.
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