Letters from Corinth children ask Santa for toys and fruit
A collection of handwritten letters from Corinth children lists Christmas wishes including balls, trains, bicycles, dolls, wagons, and fruit. The missives mention teachers, tree visits, and a desire for various gifts, interwoven with notes about school and holiday plans.
Bank Employees Share Dinner After Football Bet
Durham reports L L Collins and H C Barbee, bank employees, shared dinner after a football bet. Collins wore full dress. Barbee wore overalls. Collins paid the bet and dinner totaling 16 dollars 54 cents.
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Durham
N. C
L. L. Collins
H C. Barbee
Collins
Barbee
Canton Enforces Moral Dress and Behavior Bans
Canton authorities ban modern style dresses for Chinese flappers deeming them against public morals. They also prohibit mixed bathing walking and sitting in movie houses to uphold decorum.
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Canton
China
Letters From Young Santa Clauses Offer Simple Requests
A Sanity of schoolchildren write wish lists listing bicycles air guns crayolas notebooks candy nuts and fruit. They ask not to forget younger siblings and the poor in a country holiday sentiment.
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Santa Claus
Carroll Williams
Raymond Fussel
Florine Miller
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Erwin Rummel
Yoemen Football Lettermen for 1935
A compiled list of student letters and requests from Yoe men and local children for Christmas, featuring notes from Julien Seidl Erwin Rummel Evelyn Senkel and others seeking toys, candy, fruit, and clothing. The letters reflect 1930s school life and holiday hopes.
Pillow suffocates baby in South Bend incident
Walter Roemer, 18 months old, son of Prof. and Mrs. William Roemer, died in South Bend when a pillow toppled onto his face as he slept. Authorities describe the death as accidental and attributed to suffocation by the pillow.
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South Bend
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Walter Roemer
William Roemer
Americanism Critique on Wages and Goods From Abroad
The Asheville Citizen argues that patriotism should push makers to pay higher wages and favor domestic products over cheaper Japanese gadgets, framing it as a national economic stance. The piece links labor costs to national strength and consumer choices in a period of global trade tensions.
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Asheville
Nobel Peace Prize joke and local dairy ad
A judge jokes that this year’s Nobel Peace Prize will go to the person who keeps diplomats apart. The page also advertises a Jersey heifer for sale by B McClellen in Cameron offering to deliver fresh milk soon and inviting phone inquiries at 772.
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Jersey
B. McClellen
Cameron
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