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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1966
Page
30
A child writes to Santa Claus stating good behavior and asking for Baby Secret Barbie clothes records and a game. The note closes with affection and love to Santa.
Use garden apples as a holiday centerpiece. Remove stems and hollow for brick candles, lacquer to prevent shriveling, and string on 14 gauge wire in a circle for stability. Fasten with wax drops, cover with evergreens, and choose color schemes by apple and candle colors. A hint of aroma comes from apple peel scraps and evergreen sprigs.
A collection of handwritten pleas to Santa Claus from children listing gifts they desire for Christmas. Requests include toys such as record players, dolls, a bike, a BB gun, a pony, a race track set, a Susie Smart doll, and a piano-style wish list. Some writers note no chimney and promise milk and cake.
A pair of childlike requests arrive from the Trailer Camp notes. Wayne Kennedy asks for a GI Joe a BB gun baseball and a football. Robert Steward adds a bebe gun a GI Joe an army bomb and a James Bond reference.
Mark Scott asks Santa for a new bike this Christmas. He requests a yellow and black bike with handle brakes and signs it with love.
A child writes to Santa Claus asking for a talking doll and skates for Christmas. She notes she has no chimney and suggests Santa enters through the back door, signing with love.
Richard Spivey writes a wish list asking for a gun holster, a girl, bow and arrow, a pop gun, blue jeans, and a shirt as Christmas gifts.
A six year old girl Toni Hungerford asks Santa for a doll set including a doll and bed, a doll buggy, an Easy Bake Oven, fruit, nuts, and candy. She also sends regards to her niece Laura Northcutt of Hurst and other children worldwide.
A Brownwood Texas resident writes to Santa Claus as a 30 year old claiming to be a good boy. He asks for a tractor with equipment an army helmet and gun a Mr Sound says and cowboy boots indicating playful holiday wish list elements.
A child named Donna Livingston writes to Santa asking for a walking doll and a set of dishes. She also asks to remember Vanda and all the other little children with love.
A child named Billy Joe Elliott writes to Santa requesting a MIG and a barley dream house for Christmas, explaining there is no fireplace at his home and signing with love.
A child writes to Santa listing wishes including a hunting knife a race track a big bruiser a basketball a walkie talkie a cap a white rock and pairs of white rabbits with affectionate closing.
A child requests Santa Claus arrive through the front door since there is no chimney. The note is signed Randy John son and expresses a simple Christmas wish for a baby gun and a magsums rifle.
A reader from Rout 1 E Highland Comanche Texas sends a Christmas request to Santa Claus asking for two Barbie cases. She notes they have no chimney and asks Santa to enter through the front door.
Bayberry wax made fine candles once common in early America. Children gathered bay berries to craft them. Christmas legends link bayberry candles to luck, with Irish traditions of Mary snuffing a large Christmas Eve candle. A bayberry dip burned on Christmas Day supposedly ensures a year of good fortune.
A brief holiday note from Stephenie Gay Keith asks for a doll a Barbie case dishes and a desk to Santa.
A reader named Jana Gillette sends a playful holiday note asking for a box of Creepie crawlers on a baby Boo band. The informal request reads like a childlike holiday letter.
The article notes Finns avoid evergreen trim in homes and churches as it is seen as mourning. Christmas decor includes living room heavens a cord frame with straw paper stars and silhouettes. Candles glow in churches with profuse candle use and lantern like dawn light elevates the atmosphere.
The notes express children asking Santa for gifts including a coke machine a doll a gun and holster set play money a truck a big pickup and a pump and mention a 7 year old girl a 1 year old toddler and a friend named Joe Aranda in Gustine with thanks and love to Santa.
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