Home Made Toys Spark Child’s Christmas Fun
Readers learn to craft toys from scraps and used materials. Mothers and grandmothers describe making animal dolls, rag dolls like Raggedy Ann, doll houses with furniture, and simple toy wagons or a keeping store set. These projects emphasize durability, washable finishes, and period-style techniques for holiday gifts.
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Nyone
Raggedy Ann
Lin
Charlie Chaplin
Raggedy
Palmer reads success with toys delighting children
A fragment notes M. Palmer praising store toys as delightful for children, suggesting a successful farm context. The line emphasizes giftable items and consumer appeal in a period voice.
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M. Palmer
Hangers for Towels From Corked Nails
Nail driven through a cork forms a towel hanger that avoids tearing or rusting cloths. This simple device uses cork as a soft grip and metal nail as a support, providing a cheap durable hanger.
No Worms Impficantly Child Health Tonic Advertisement
An old advertisement claims that worms in children cause pale color and stomach upset. It promotes Grove Tonic as a blood enriching general tonic to strengthen digestion and expel worms, stating a 60 cent price per bottle and that health will improve after regular use.
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Grove
Cure a Cold in One Day With Laxative Brom Quin
An advertising note promotes LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE tablets to cure a cold in one day. It claims to stop coughing and headaches and to work against the cold with E W GROVE noted on each box.
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E.W. Grove
Milam County Sheriff Sale Notice on John C Moore et al
The State of Texas Milam County sheriff announces a sale by order of the district court dated December 6 1921 in case No 8539 First National Bank of Thorndale versus John C Moore et al. The 20 acre home stead tract in the Daniel Robertson grant near San Gabriel is described along the San Gabriel river road and bounds. The notice details the parcel and boundaries as part of the collection process.
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District Court
Milam County
Penn Wolf
John ©. Moore
First National Bank of Thorndale
John C. Moore
I. L. L. Blaylock
Texas
Daniel Robertson
San Gabriel
Jesse C. Moore
Moore
San
Williamsow
Hugh Gray
William Lane
Hugh Grey
Gray
Jessie Moore
J. T. Robertson
Fokes
Folkes) League
Jessie White Survey
E. M. Perry
Slough
H. H. Moore
J. G. Moore
J. T. Robinson
T. W. Wayne
John Moore
San Gabriel and Georgetown
Perry
Quinn Walker
Property Sale Notice in Milam County Texas 1921
Sheriff L L Blaylock announces the public sale of real estate owned by John C Moore et al., including three tracts totaling about 220 acres, describing boundaries and prior mortgages. The sale is set for January 3, 1922 at the Milam County Courthouse between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. with payment in cash.
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John C. Moore
Emma
Elenora Moore
John Hicks
Milam County
Court House
Cameron
Texas
Camron Herald
L. L. Blaylock
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