Children’s Christmas Wish List Letter Excerpt
A collection of handwritten notes in which children request gifts for Christmas. Items include air guns, knives, footballs, dolls, cars, firecrackers, candy, fruit, oranges, apples, nuts, trucks, planes, bicycles, gloves, coats, underwear, and books. Several children ask to share with siblings and to remember poor children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Claus
Treasure Island
Santa
Mickey Moore
Eleanor Elain Pfarrdrescher
Christmas Presents to Suit Individual Tastes
Bertha and Mary plan gifts as two friends share wants for music and companionship. Bertha seeks a small living room radio while Mary asks for a canary cage. they exchange similar wishes as a playful look at holiday desires.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ertha Nevins
Mary Parks
Mary
Bertha
Helen Gaisford
Western Newspaper Union
Christmas in Ireland A bright old Christmas greeting
The piece reflects Ireland’s long Christmas tradition with Mary and the Christ Child legends guiding lighted candles in windows. It recalls how Irish families, scattered worldwide, share the season's joy with gifts and warm wishes under a bright new year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ireland
Emerald Isle
Mary
Christ Child
Bethlehem
Katherine Edelman
Western Newspaper Union
Mistletoe’s Reach Shrinks From Old Fashioned Christmas
Historical note describes mistletoe as a traditional decoration now less common in earlier times. It is a parasitic plant living on tree sap, found worldwide and most abundant in tropical regions. On the Atlantic coast of the United States it reaches up to New Jersey but is scarcer northward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tropics
Atlantic Seaboard
United States
Jersey
United States Forest Service
Milam County
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Merry
Merry Christmas
Claus
WATTS
Ladia Novotny
Friend
Nathan Wilson
Joe Novotny
Monta Angell
Brother
Miss Wilson
Norine Lange
Alvin Plachy
Emily Kratochvil
Lillie Plachy
Joe Simecek
Minnie Lee Fatheree
Emory B. Camp
Mayfield
Monument Yard
Cameron Post Office
J. K. Freeman
Cameron, Texas
Robert Lange, Jr
Jessie Lee Pfarrdrescher
Naples
Hill’s Sandwich Shop
Henderson
Graham Gillis
Garth
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