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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1945
Page
4
A note from Janis Mon le McCu expresses wishes for a doll buck a doll bed a venue and a sack filled with cars. The message closes with love.
A collection of children’s notes to Santa Claus listing gifts they want. Tam, Lyonn Wetzel, Edwin Weitzel, and Elvis Warren ask for dolls, doll beds, tables and chairs, dishes, candy, fruit, a bow and arrow, a story book, a bubble set, a child’s baby brother, and presents for their mother and father. The notes express goodwill and being good.
Nancy Croker writes a playful wish list requesting games a doctor and nurse set a dish set a bicycle and a reminder to share with other boys and girls. The note expresses holiday generosity.
Betty Jones asks Santa for items including a bicycle dishes ribbons a nose suit fruit candy a story book and a color book expressed in a friendly holiday note. The letter signs Betty Jane Jones as the sender.
A child named Bobbie Nell Huf statter writes from 700 North Lane Street Camanche asking Santa for a big pretty doll apples oranges and candy. The note messenger mentions hoping for snow so Santa can use his sleigh and beer.
A ten year old girl writes to Santa asking for a watch a doll doll clothes a doll trunk and a bubble act in a festive Christmas note. The friendly missive is signed Dorothy Jones.
Child writes a Christmas wish list to Santa. He asks for a chemistry set, rust, a telescope, nuts, and a Victory Bond, signing his name as Bobby Bonser from Comanche.
Three children from Carlton write to Santa asking for a Lone Ranger set bingo set bow and arrow candy fruited sparklers and a doll teddy bear for their sister Royce Dwain Turney and two younger brothers request red tractors a wagon a car captain and story books plus fruit and nuts for Christmas Gary Don and Joe Paul Fletcher sign off with love to Santa and family.
A child writes to Santa asking for a doll and a matching blanket, plus a bicycle. The note is signed by Nancy Sue Williams of Comanche.
A four year old girl, Valeta Dewan Janes, writes to Santa describing hoped for gifts. She asks for a sleeping bin doll, cradle, dishes, ball, purse, fruit, candy, and nuts, and asks Santa to remember her father who is overseas.
Santa letters from Comanche youngsters list wants including Dayton Wright asking for a tent bicycle Chinese checkerboard and checkers Earnest Layman requesting a baseball BB gun and a carpenter set Luisa Cano seeking a doll and a picture Carlton asking for a billfold and a BB gun all dated from a festive correspondence.
A ten year old Billy James and another Comanche child Jeanene Smith write Santa with requests. Billy asks a billfold with initials a ring with a yellow orange stone and notes his birthday on November tenth. Jeanene asks for a doll with real hair a box of fruit a table and dishes.
A letter from Jo Ann McCullough of Comanche asks Santa for a baby doll with a table and chairs, plus a pair of skates. The note ends with thanks and affection to Santa Claus.
A letter from Johnny Mack Brooks of Comanche expresses Christmas wishes for a baseball a baseball bat and a pair of shoes with thanks to Santa Claus.
A Comanche resident named Joe Amos asks for a scooter a wooden train a basketball and a pair of skaters in a brief missive.
A child writes to Santa describing wishes including a BB gun, football, baseball bat and clothing. The letter from Linda Lou Gore of Comanche asks for toys and doll items and requests gifts for family members at Blanket.
A seven year old 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. The letter is signed with love by Jerry Steward.
A Comanche recipient signs a plea for a doll a table and chairs and a bicycle with love from Elizabeth Jean Williams in a handwritten message. The brief reads as a personal request and does not provide dates or broader context.
A brief handwritten message from Donald Wayne Elrod of Comanche asks for a football and a billfold with four photo slots and a money compartment with a snap. The note closes with love.
A letter from Gayle McNutt requests a scooter, foot stool, bicycle, BB gun, skates, velvet rats, an overcoat, boxing gloves and a tent. The note expresses gratitude and goodwill.
A letter from David Horace Beene and another message from Joe Weldon Causey request specific toys. Beene asks for a mon oply set a machine gun and boxing gloves. Causey asks Santa for an army truck a machine gun and bubbles and mentions visiting Pa Paw's house and the sister.
A handwritten letter pleads for gifts including a monopoly set a BS um a bold a pony and a tent from Santa Claus dated Carl Hall with a playful signature from Co nanche
Gene Wilson of Comanche writes to Santa asking for a scatter BB gun a basketball and a Chinese checkers board. The playful note requests holiday gifts from the North Pole and signs off as a friend.
A brief unsigned note from Comanche signed by Gene Coulter mentions football, a BB gun, and a basketball. It reads like a casual personal message or club bulletin. The text lacks dates, locations, or additional context.
A child labeled Billy Jack Carter of Comanche writes to Santa asking for a BB gun, a football, a bicycle, skates, and a scooter. The note ends with thanks and signs as a friend.
A fragmentary history era note shows two children from Comanche writing Santa Claus. They request a variety of gifts including a BB gun a monopoly game and boxing gloves along with a horse bow and arrows and a few personal items. The misspelled letter mentions Freddie Bomar and Bob Graham as senders with friendly closing.
A Comanche child Cecil Nlee writes to Santa asking for an oat BB gun a basketball and a football expressing love and friendship in a handwritten note.
A brief, personal note mentions items such as a nose check-board a bilI and a jackknife with a closing signoff from Bobby Joe Flinchum. The text appears as an informal, improvised message with nonsensical phrasing.
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