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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1945
Page
2
A short note from Janis Mont e McC requests a doll bug seven plus one ant a doll bed and a forme to fill a rock with cory. The letter reads as a personal request and shows playful handwriting.
Edwin Wetzel asks Santa for candy fruit a scabbard guns bow and arrow games and books plus presents for his parents and a good boy note. Elvis Warren writes pleading for a new doll a storybook and a bubble set with a loving sign off to Santa.
Nancy Croker writes a holiday note requesting games a doctor and nurse set a dish set a bicycle and mentions other boys and girls.
A childhood letter from Betty Jane Jones asks Santa for items including a dish bicycle ribbons nose suit fruit candy a story book a color book and expresses a friendly hopeful tone.
A child writes to Santa with requests for a pretty doll and fruit and candy. The note includes a hopeful wish for snow to enable a sleigh ride. Signed by Bobbie Nell Huf statter of 700 North Lane Street Comanche.
A ten year old girl named Dorothy Jones writes to Santa asking for a watch a doll doll clothes a doll trunk and a bubble set as her Christmas wishes.
A handwritten letter from Bobby Bonser of Comanche asks Santa for a chemistry set a telescope and nuts a Victory Bond and signs with love. The child writes in a friendly holiday tone requesting gifts.
In two children’s pleas from Carlton, Royce Dwain Turney asks for a Lone Ranger set a bingo set a bow and arrow candy fruit and sparklers. Gary Don and Joe Paul Fletcher request red tractors a wagon ball civ chaplain story bouts candy fruit and nuts and a doll and a teddy bear for their sister.
A message from Narcy Sue Williams of Comanche asking Santa for a doll and blanket to match along with a bicycle, written with a childlike plea and affectionate closing.
A four year old girl Valeta Dewan Janes writes a letter to Santa asking for a big talking doll a cradle a set of dishes a ball a purse fruit candy and nuts. She also asks Santa to remember her father who is overseas.
A collection of Christmas requests from Comanche area children. Dayton Wright asks for a tent bicycle Chinese checkerboard and checkers Earnest layman wants a baseball BB gun and a car penter ret Loisa Cano requests a doll and a picture Carlton asks for a billfold and BB gun Billy James notes being ten with a birthday in November Jeanene Smith asks for a doll with real hair a box of fruit a table and dishes
Dear Santa Claus a child from Comanche asks for a pair of skates a doll house dishes and a baby doll with a table and chairs. The note is signed by Jo Ann McCullough expressing thanks in advance.
A child writes to Santa asking for a baseball, a baseball bat, and a pair of shoes, signing as Johnny Mack Brooks, Co.
Joe Amos of Comanche writes a humorous request asking for a scooter a wooden train and a basketball and even a pair of skates if possible. The note reveals a playful schoolyard tone and simple wants.
A letter ending with a request to bring a BB gun a football a baseball and a bat signed by J E White Co.
A six year old girl from Comanche writes to Santa asking for gifts including a large doll with real hair doll clothes houseshoes a robe dishes fruit candy and nuts. She asks Santa to bring part of her items to her Pa Pa and Mi Ma Hall at Blanket where she will be part of the time.
A seven year old boy writes to Santa asking for gifts including a gun and scabbard a Chinese checkers set a bow and arrow a toy jeep and a stocking filled with candy and oranges with love Jerry Steward.
A handwritten message from Elizabeth Jean Williams of Comanche asks for a doll a table chairs and a bicycle if possible. The letter closes with love suggesting a personal plea or wish list.
A dedication from Donald Wayne Elrod of Comanche asks for a football and a billfold with four picture slots and a money compartment with a snap. The personal message appears as a simple gift request.
A Comanche resident writes to Santa Claus listing items desired including a senator, footnal, bicycle, BB gun, skates, white rats, an overcoat, boxing gloves, and a tent. The lighthearted missive expresses thanks.
A letter from David Horace Beene requests 60 games in one a mon oply set a machine gun and boxing gloves and Joe Weldon Causey asks Santa for an army truck a machine gun and bubbles both note Pa-Pa's house and include a request to not forget his sister with warm sign offs from Comanche residents.
A whimsical note from Carl Fall of Co Nanche recounts a humorous shopping list including a bilfold a vony and a tent presented in a playful holiday letter style.
Gene Wilson of Comanche writes for gifts including a scatter and a BB gun, a basketball, and a Chinese checkerboard. He asks Santa to provide these items as holiday wishes.
A brief signed note by Gene Coulter mentions football a BB gun and a basketball. The fragment implies casual sports items associated with the writer. No dates or locations provided.
A letter from Billy Jack Carter of Comanche requests a BS gun a football a bicycle a pair of skates and a scooter for Christmas. The note closes with gratitude and signs his name.
A trio of handwritten holiday letters from Comanche children ask Santa for gifts. Freddie Bomar requests a monoplyst and a fo ot oll and BB gun, Bob Graham asks for skating gear boxing gloves a horse bow and arrows and a billfold, Cecil nlee asks for a oat BB gun and football.
A fragmentary note from Bobby Joe Flinchum requests a nose check board a bid a jackknife and a f n with love sent from osnanche. The missive reads as a quirky personal message rather than a formal communication.
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