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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1953
Page
13
A collection of childhood Christmas requests from Comanche fifth graders and younger. Boys ask for guns BB guns footballs monoples sets and trains while girls request dolls bicycles and household toys. Names and addresses appear with each note showing a community holiday plea.
Amity Texas residents formed a Rural Neighborhood Progress group in 1952, improving soil and water quality, safety surveys, brush clearing, and road signs. The effort earned cash prizes in Neighborhood Progress and Pasture Contests, with a renovated vacant farmhouse serving as a community center.
Betty Rogers asks Santa for a doll roller skates a housecoat candy and fruit for Mrs Harris Ginger Lane requests a doll a doll carriage and a nurses kit plus something for their new baby brother both seek gifts from Santa in friendly child voice.
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