Santa Claus Letters from Pocahontas and nearby towns
A collage of Santa letter requests from 1906 residents in Pocahontas and surrounding areas. Children and guardians ask for toys, dolls, trains, sleds, and candy, with many letters dated December 1906 and including names like Clarence Honaker, Ida McGee, Ruth Dunn, and Madeline Aliff. The excerpt ends with a jeweler advertisement by Theodore Dilger in Red Lot.
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Santa Claus
Ruth Dunn
Red Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Matowka
Santa Clause
Theodore Dilger
Red Lot
Christmas Gift Ideas at the Metropolitan
What Shall I Give Him Bath Robe Smoking Jacket Slippers Hosiery Cravats Ye METROPOLITAN for Christmas gifts. For chapped and cracked hands get DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. Sold by all druggists.
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DeWitt
Christmas Wishlist From Two Little Charleton Children
A letter from Russelle and Irene Charlton asks Santa for toys including a sleeping doll, go cart, cooking stove, doll table and chairs, an automobile for two, quoits, a kodak, and pink and green stockings with fruit nuts and candy. Sidney Dearing adds sleds blocks iron wagon and firecrackers plus family coal by the stove.
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Santa Claus
Russelle
Irene Charlton
Mamma
Sidney Dearing
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W. H. Harry & Company
Our Toy Department
Bluefield
Banks & Rosenheim
Princeton Avenue
W. P. Hawley Mole. Company
South Bland Street
Pocahontas, Va
Santa
Willie
Robert Lile
Grandpa
Granpa
Willie Lile
Water St. No
Pease
Papa
Mama
Clarence Honaker
Lena
Ida
Graham
Billy
Hieland Avenus
John Malcolm Anderson
America
Marlyn GC
Abbott
Santo
Eugene Keith
Ayne
Floyd St
Gertrude McGhee
Kickman
Dia
Santa T
Maddie
Montague Aliff
Eckman & Keystone
Princeton Ave
Higginbotham
Sublette & Barnes
Tirrney
R. K. Borling
Cahier
H. Thomas
D .Bah icKs
Carhier
Flat Top National Bank of
Las West Virginia
United States Depository
Herbert B. Hawes
Mercer
McDowell Counties
Tazewell County
Cohen
Phoo
Inter- State Furniture Companyj
Carter Purniture Company
Kneeton Ave
West Virginia
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