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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1928
Page
31
A child named James Brock writes to Santa with requests for a coaster wagon a crazy car a bath robe and house shoes conveying a simple holiday gift list for comfort and play desires.
A child writes to Santa with requests for a doll, clothes, a little watch, plus a note from Dora Emma Dun cum and mention of Lois Bald ridge. The home scene includes a doll bed, trunk, gloves, and a doll rocker as part of the Christmas memory.
A child named Tom Hobson writes a letter to Santa asking for a gravel truck a drum a film projector and a copy of A Big Parade a town with an airplane above it He adds please don’t leave my telephone in Toyland and signs as your loyal friend.
A five year old girl named Inez Slaughter writes from Temple asking Santa to visit her, share doll toys, books, a doll buggy and dishes, and to remember sick children. She notes she has read Santa letters in the Temple Telegram and mentions her mother.
A scanned letter page shows multiple children writing to Santa Claus with requested gifts. Names include Pauline Laake Homer Pope Joe Bill White Martha Frances Brogdon Raymond Lesikar Albert Crowell and Clarence Walden, asking for dolls trains cars dolls beds toys and candy. The letters emphasize remembering poor children and kindness during Christmas.
A collection of festive notes from six year old Walter Lucas Jr and peers asking Santa for small presents such as a football, air gun, dolls, a tea table, a bed and a fairy tale book. The letters express kindness toward others and appreciation for school and teachers.
A six year old requests gifts including a tricycle or wagon a tool chest a horn and nuts candy and fruit for family members mother father brother sister and a tea cher signed Robert Lee Dakel with a friendly holiday plea.
A child’s Christmas request to Santa Claus lists gifts such as a coaster wagon raincoat pocket knife candy and a scooter. The boy asks Santa to remember poorer children and to visit his grandmother’s Jones Prairie home while inviting his siblings and friends to share in holiday joy.
A collection of holiday pleas from children asking Santa for toys and treats. Names such as David Payne Hal Hoover Vance Booth McDonald Cecil Tindall Mildred Slama appear among their requests for dump trucks kiddie cars bicycles and candy with notes to remember the poor.
A six year old girl Malvina Olson writes to Santa promising to help him and describing a Christmas Eve plan with her mother Sunday school class to deliver toys and groceries to the poor. She lists gifts including a doll mesh bag skates and books and asks for fruit. She mentions using flashlights and horns.
A trio of children write Christmas requests to Santa Claus describing gifts such as skates a cowboy suit a air gun a football a doll a table a dish set a dump cart a steam roller and a mysterious diver, while asking Santa to remember other needy children.
A big doll with curly hair sits beside a buggy for her, along with a dishes and a cabinet. Max ine Akers is noted in the description.
A six year old named Thelma Price asks for gifts for her baby sisters. She says she goes to school daily in kindergarten and hopes someone will bring them items, mentioning a little doll for the baby.
Several youngsters write to Santa with wish lists. Requests include a live puppy and pony, a real rabbit, a flashlight, drum, toy train, football, a toy car, teddy bear, sparklers, caps, candy, fruit and nuts, and gifts for siblings and friends. They mention a Christmas tree gathering in Miss Callie’s room.
Billy tells his father a schoolmate said he looked like him. Dad asks what he said and Billy replies he said nothing because the boy was bigger.
Commercial Traveler tells the proprietor that two customers are in the store while the merchant urges silence and patience. The pair remain unseen as they linger in the back of the shop, awaiting a chance to exit unseen.
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