Santa Letters From Comanche School Children
A compilation of children from West Ward School in Comanche writing to Santa Claus. They request items including guns, scabbards, airplanes, air guns, dolls, a piano, a telephone, nurse’s kit, a doll bed, a bicycle, a train, a housecoat, dishes, nuts, apples, bananas, oranges, and other gifts. The letters note their third year at West Ward School and sign with various names.
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Santa Claus
West Ward School
John Butler
Comanche
West Ward
Carrie Ann Layman
Hubert Ray Jones
Comane
Jinny Holden
Twyla Herring
Otha Hansel Cleere
Hollis Hay Brown
Christmas Wish List From Comanche Children
A letter from Helen Huse of West Ward School Comanche lists desires for a doll a doll bed apples a nurse's kit books and nuts a telephone bananas oranges a bicycle candy Brazil nuts a play piano and a doll buggy with a cabinet for Christmas. It reads playful requests spanning toys groceries and a piano amid seasonal cheer.
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Santa Claus
Helen Huse
West Ward
Comanche
Christmas List Letters From Cleo Naomi and Child
Three handwritten notes request toys for Christmas. Cleo Fern Springstead asks for a doll doll bed dishes and a purse. Naomi Pauline Springstead requests a doll doll bed dishes and purse for a schoolgirl in the second grade. A sixteen month old boy asks for a tricycle music box horn a ball.
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Santa Clause
Childrens Christmas Letter Requests Mention Toy List
A newspaper page shows Santa letters from children asking for gifts. One note asks for a gun, signed Ira Stanton Anders. Another letter from Nelda Faye Smith requests a fifteen inch doll and a paint book, mentioning her two younger brothers J P and Gaylon Lee Smith.
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Santa
Nelda Faye Smith
Sidney
Route 1
J. P
Gaylon Lee Smith
Christmas Wish Letters From Comanche Children
A set of handwritten requests to Santa from Comanche residents include Barbara Ann Godfrey asking for a 19 inch doll with hair and sleepy eyes a puzzle and a bingo set Dann ny requesting dump trucks a coloring book and a belt and War Stamps if available no McKinzie also writes of good behavior and holiday gifts in a continuation of wishes.
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Santa Claus
Barbara Ann Godfrey
Comanche
Santa
Danny
Santa letters request toys and sweets from Comanche children
Children from Comanche write to Santa listing gifts they want including a doll buggy, train set, electric train, air gun, airplane, wagon, apples, oranges, nuts, and candy. They mention visiting Mamie if not home and ask to leave items there for them and their brother Mack.
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Santa Claus
Mack
Deana Kay Barnes
Comanche
Paul Ray
Brazil
Dale Jones
Comanche Friend Lloyd Requests Various Items
A brief note from Lloyd of Comanche lists desires for an electro train a box of candy a gun scab bard a box of apples. The message reads as a casual request or shopping list without further context.
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Santa Claus
Lloyd
Comanche
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Martha Beene
Blacksmith
Coker’s Produce
Cleo Fern Springstead
Naomi Pauline Springstead
Merry Christmas
J. H. London
Ira Stanton Anders
H. H. Lockridge
Comanche County
Association
D. W. Long W. B. Barret
John Burton
L. T. Cunningham
J. A. Lightfoot
Farm Loan Association
E. S. Fagan
Secy
Burk
Quality Pictures
Burk’s
Higginbotham Burial Association
Higginbotham Burial Assn
Telephone Company
Texas Telephone Co
Burton Brothers
Aah Dept
Our
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Clemon’s Motor Company
Clemons Motor Co
Ira B. Clemons
Prop
Wright's
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