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Newspaper
Andrews News
Location
Andrews, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1919
Page
1
A 1919 collection of child letters from South Carolina wrapped in holiday wishes. Young writers request dolls, toy guns, pistols, wagons, trains, teacets, carriages, fruit, candy, and fireworks, sending warm Christmas wishes to Santa Claus.
A 1919 reader letter from C. Dee Ridge asks Santa for a doll, carriage, fruit, and candy for a seven year old, also requesting a doll for Miss Harrelson, plus gifts for Grandpapa and Grandmother. Another note from Mellie Wilson asks for a doll with moving eyes, a tea set, and fruit for friends.
A scanned page shows children writing to Santa with wish lists. Names include Theimer Elliott Deg 10 1919 Tiina McCants Rostrell Brown and Tiina asks for rifle balls fruit candy and a Haliburton Primer. Other notes request stove teaset doll fruit and toys for siblings.
The Andrews News will not publish next week due to Christmas week and moving the plant to Main Street. They plan to reopen at the new location near the start of the year as the current stand is too small for new machines. The Andrews News Book store remains at the present location.
Two thousand three hundred Austrian children have arrived by special train from Vienna and nearby towns. Northern Italian cities have opened their limited food supplies to feed the hungry offspring of their former enemies as more children continue to arrive for hospitality.
The column frames the Christmas season as a time of shared cheer among subscribers and their households, inviting readers to join in festive goodwill.
A ten year old fifth grader Clyde Wilson writes to Santa asking for a knife a rifle fireworks candy and fruit. He adds a postscript asking Santa to remember his teacher with a doll.
A fragment from 1919 contains children’s handwritten pleas to Santa. A seven year old writes about daily school, candy, a tea set, and fruit, while a ten year old in the fifth grade asks for a kitchen set, a doll with moving eyes, fruit, and candy.
A twelve year old girl in sixth grade writes to Santa Degi asking for a manicure set, nuts, candy, fruit, and 1 McCants. She adds a postscript not to forget her teacher.
A child pleads for Santa to bring gifts suited to a fifth grade boy. He notes he is twelve, in the fifth grade, and asks Santa to remember his family at home while promising to keep the chimney clean.
A reader writes of longing for Santa to arrive on Christmas Eve and deliver a doll baby fruit and candy. The note asks Santa not to forget Daddy and Mother who would be disappointed.
A Christmas wish from a nine year old girl in the fifth grade asks Santa for a doll baby a doll bed nuts candy and fruit and also includes a request to remember her younger brother. The letter dated 1919 shows childlike joy and tradition of holiday giving.
Effective 12:01 A M Monday Dec 15 trains will resume former schedules and those discontinued will be restored. G V Peyton Sup t.
Mr E N Beard spent Monday in Charleston on business. Mr and Mrs P D Clement spent days in Columbia. Mr and Mrs W D Palmer and family visited Georgetown last Sunday. Mr A A May and Austin left for Hartsville. Alice Outlaw and Mintle Grier spent last weekend in Georgetown with relatives. Mrs H P Bussey and son returned from Hartsville. Mr and Mrs H J W Kiser spend holidays with Kisers' parents in Lynchburg. Lola Hollingsworth returned from Flat Rock to attend her father's funeral. W G Copp and son Ray left for Plant City to open a jewelry shop. Mrs Walter G Copp and children visit Delaware. Elsie Ham and Myrtle Russell go to Charleston for holidays. Dorothy Campbell Luces Holtzschiefer Edna Catlett James Walden and Albert Walden attend Lyceum at Johnsonville Schoolhouse.
Mr 8 H Adams Divisional Train master of Seaboard Railway company is transferred to Missouri Hampt on. R M Gold of Hamnet ton will replace Adams in Andrews. People express regret at his departure.
Shipping pneumonia or shipping fever is a contagious horse disease common in winter due to traffic and cold weather. It affects horses mules and asses with high breath rates fever and nasal discharge. early separation of sick animals and veterinary care reduce deaths.
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