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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1966
Page
23
A jumble of old Christmas memories and letters to Santa from Gustine children. The notes request toys such as dolls, guns, trucks, a guitar, a camera, a piano, a bicycle, a TV, and a playhouse. The piece evokes a bygone era of holiday rituals and handwritten wishes.
Children from Gustine share Christmas wishes to Santa. Denise Moore asks for walkie talkies, a Love Kenneth, a typewriter, a baby doll, and Crewe. Sharon Ann McKandless requests a bicycle, a Kool Aid maker, and a surprise in first grade. Kita Keese mentions a Pogo Stick a Heidi doll and a charm bracelet.
Olga Acosta asks Santa for a bike and a kid doll with pretty clothes for herself and a doll for her sister. She requests a play horse and high chair for her baby brother and remembers her mother and father.
A collection of brief child like notes requesting gifts for Christmas. Names include Douglas McCraw Ingrid Gutierrez Cephas Sandra Kidd Jerry Dickey Margie Presswood Debra Dickey and notes mention items such as a bicycle watch record player stove piano glove and Creeple People set.
Festive cookies fill the kitchen with fragrance and cheer. The guide lists ingredients like flour lard sugar eggs vanilla milk and spices with chilling rolling cutting and decorating tips for sugar cookies.
Charlene Simpson writes a friendly holiday letter asking for a camera tape recorder record player portable TV scrapbook go go boots a ball glove a baby bob shrink ing violet and a thing maker.
Two children express Christmas wishes in a friendly note. Dwayne Allen Towe asks for a race car and a watch and notes the yearly Christmas reminder of Jesus. Delores Puckett requests a tape recorder and a small item for her bedroom plus a gold wrist watch.
A child writes a holiday list requesting a Francie doll a pair of go go boots a Scrabble game a radio a record player a Book of Heidi and an Etch A Sketch. The note closes with loving sign off from Becky Cottrell.
Dear Santa requests list bike and Indian suit from Blake while Steve Gunter of Gustine asks for boots a gun and holster a football suit and a tent with a cake left on the table, signing Love.
A seven year old girl Charla Clark of Gustine writes to Santa requesting a doll and a toy piano. John Crumrine asks for a compass and a Big Broezer in a child’s Christmas message.
A holiday note shows two children sending requests to Santa. Judy Hernandez asks for a typewriter a watch and boots while noting cold weather and good behavior. Debord Sue signs love with a mention of Baby Secret.
A reader requests a walkie talkie and a ByBy Gun in a private inquiry. The note ends with a personal sentiment and a name Visenie Arredig.
The article recalls early British mummers bands who walked from hall to hall during the Christmas season staging songs dances and plays featuring figures like St George the Dragon Hector and Alexander the Great. It notes royal attention from Richard II Henry IV and Henry VII including a 15th century proclamation making mumming punishable by jail for three months.
The custom of setting up manger scenes began in 1223 at Greccio Italy when St. Francis of Assisi assembled a live scene to convey the birth of Christ. The practice spread across Italy and Southern Europe and now appears in churches clubs and homes across the United States with elaborate displays like the Moravian family Puts showing the Holy Family and village life.
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