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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1935
Page
5
A fragmented collection of holiday wishes from young readers Emily Blankenship and Shirley Anderson requesting boots dishes a doll buggy a doll a book satchel and other gifts plus a child’s note about age and school. Included are stray lines of dialogue and stray slang phrases from a separate dramatic scene.
Children from Telephone School write to Santa with requests for toys clothes and treats. The notes mention various ages school levels and desired items including dishes, pencils boxes air guns dolls jackets and fruit with family references in several short letters.
A child writes to Santa requesting a knife fruits nuts and cards. He mentions attending a Telephone school and cites his teacher Mrs Bumpus. The letter is signed by Denton Redman as a friendly note.
Pauline Martin writes to Santa asking for a manicure set, oranges, apples, candy and a boox satchel. She signs with love and identifies her teacher as Mrs Bumpas.
A child writes to Santa claiming good behavior and asking for a doll and fruit plus candy. The note is signed La Verne Pirkle.
A child writes to Santa asking for a coaster wagon an air rifle a knife and fruits. The note expresses hope for gifts and promises to try to be good during the season.
A young student named Winnie Ruth Barber writes Santa from Tele phone School in first grade. She asks for boots a book satchel a pencil box candy and fruits and says she has been good. She signs as a friend.
A child writes to Santa asking for a tricycle and candy plus fruit, notes attending school in the primer, and mentions teacher Mrs. Bumpas. The letter closes with a declaration of good behavior and love.
A child writes to Santa asking for firecrackers and a small gun, plus nuts and fruits, and asks not to forget poor children and a kind teacher Mrs Bum- PRs, signing as Lee Leonard Mitchell.
A child writes a Christmas wish to Santa asking for a cow boy suit air gun bullets knife fire crackers fruits nuts and candy. The note mentions a little sister John nie Agnes and is signed Mal Colm Jackson as a friendly closing.
Three children write to Santa asking for gifts. Rayburn Mitchell seeks a knife a gun apples and nuts. Gladys Conwill asks for a pencil box candy apples and cranes. Floyd Martin requests a French harp oranges and candy.
A child, Floyd Conwill, writes from first grade asking Santa for gifts including a small pistol with caps, candy, apples, and oranges. The tone is hopeful and festive as the young writer enumerates desired items.
An 8 year old third grader at Telephone School writes to Santa listing desired gifts. Wanda Maberry asks for a doll, doll buggy, printing set, pencil box and fruit, signing with love.
Eight year old Marietta Mitchel writes to Santa asking for a doll apples and nuts. She signs with thanks and good behavior.
A ten year old third grader writes Santa asking for a doll a peace bar a satchel nuts fruit and candy warm robes and to remember the elderly and orphans in her Christmas wishes. The note closes with friend Dorts Weeks.
Bill Paul Hampton, an eight year old first grader, writes Santa asking for apples oranges candy hats air gun book satchel dinner pail a cap and warm gloves. He asks to remember the orphan children and signs friend request. He includes his brother Jerry wants something nice.
A young girl named Exina Earl Huffman writes to Santa Claus from school, listing fruits candles nuts and a doll as Christmas gifts. She thanks Santa in advance and signs with love, expressing that she has been good and has many playmates and a kind teacher Mrs Bumapas.
A judge predicts this year's Nobel Peace Prize will go to the person who finds a method to keep diplomats apart. The remark frames prize prospects as a test of diplomatic separation versus cooperation.
The Criterion Club elected Joel Edward M2Dac as president, Paul Arledge Jr. as vice president, Van Case as secretary treasurer, and named Marvin Johnson Reid Spivy Jr. and Hayton Brogies as house committee. The dance is set for Christmas night at the club with Herschel Shelton returning from Europe to lead the orchestra.
A listener shares intense appreciation for a concert describing the music as wonderful and deeply impressive though not fully understood. The remark captures a strong emotional response to the performance.
Four days remain for Christmas shopping as M. C. Spivy & Co announces fresh gift items arriving tomorrow. A humorous exchange reads Keep It Quiet as Mrs. MacTavish reports her child swallowed a $10 gold piece but is safe, surprising neighbors.
A man asks for a comet as a gift for his wife in a ladies' shop. The clerk asks what bust, and the man replies nothing it just wore out. A misheard line about an undertaker and a doctor follows in a brief joke exchange.
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