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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1953
Page
19
A cluster of holiday requests from Van Dyke School children in Comanche. Billy Wheat asks for football gear and model items, Robert Moore seeks a bicycle, Cecil O Dell requests four bicycles, and James Lloyd Fritts asks for a BB gun and fruit.
A collection of childhood Christmas requests shows fourth graders and siblings from Van Dyke School and Comanche area asking for dolls, toy trains, bicycles, gloves, a watch, a billfold, a vacuum, and even a boxing set. Names include Wayne, Donald Barnard, Billy, Joe Frank Cuthbertson, Katherine Day, Mary Nell, and Tommie Matthews, plus family notes and gratitude.
A child named Yvonne writes to Santa expressing affection and requesting gifts for Christmas. She asks for a necklace bracelet ring and shoes as presents from Santa, signing the note as a friend.
Three letters to Santa reveal kid desires. Kay wants a doll bogey and nothing else. Jackie Shoemaker asks for a ball glove and bat. J B Rains hopes for a baseball glove, nuts, and fruit. Freddie asks for blue jeans shoes and gifts for his teacher mother and sister.
A fourth grade boy named R. A. Warren writes to Santa listing gifts he desires including a ball, a glove, a .22 rifle, and firecrackers, signing off as his friend.
A Texas receiver is authorized to auction three parcels totaling 870.2 acres in Comanche County on January 4, 1954, at the courthouse between 10 AM and 4 PM, in the Luker v Moore case, with deeds tracing land origins to W L Moore and related sellers. The notice also includes a juvenile Christmas letter to Santa.
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