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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1926
Page
25
A collection of child friendly pleas to Santa featuring names such as Hubert Compton Gena Wade Curtis Gill and Annie Francs Narvatil. Entries request toys like dolls skates bicycles and games alongside fruit candy and books with reminders to remember the poor. The notes express personal wants and family needs for a hopeful Christmas.
Jack Arriett tells Santa he dislikes his two month Texas tour and speeches. He urges Santa to return to the North Pole for Christmas Eve and promises to decide what a good boy deserves. He says he still loves the right kind of Santa.
The text compiles numerous short requests from children and families for gifts including dolls, jumpsuits, toy blocks, bicycles, skates, candy, fruit, fireworks, boxing gloves, and other items. Names such as Mildred Copus, Leonard Blaylock, Keidel Sheppard, Fannie Lee Lunsford, and Ruth Smith appear among the requests, reflecting a holiday charity context.
A fragment lists multiple residents requesting assorted goods. Items include fruit such as apples and oranges, candy, nuts, shells, a ring, a story book, a Mama Doll, skates, a bicycle, a ball, a volleyball, fire works, house shoes, pumps, a basket, Edison, and a twenty two target. Names include Cecil Holden Mildred Crawford Trudie Jane Holder Mary Louise Vaughan Ernestine Brad Marie Reibertsen Louis Crouch.
Virgel Turner asks for a bicycle and skating gear as Christmas gifts. He specifies a bicycle, a pair of skates, a pair of boxing gloves, and a pair of gloves for the holiday morning.
A collection of holiday letters from children in Cameron and nearby areas requesting toys such as dolls bicycles Skates footballs games and fireworks for Christmas. The children ask Santa to remember poor and orphaned kids and include brief personal details and street addresses.
A long list of children and adults request gifts for Christmas including skates, fireworks, toys, books, candy, nuts, fruit, and practical items. Names such as John Calvin, Robert Sloan Ryan, Alice Rylander, Frances McDermott, Hilliard Thomas, Billy Gillis, Alvin Monroe, Joe Dusek, and Woodrow Wilson appear alongside items like fire trucks, boxes of watercolors, a Red Letter Bible, a Victrola, and boxing gloves.
A reader named Harold Jackson asks for a pair of gloves in a brief note continued on page four. The fragment reflects local requests and community notices typical of the period.
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