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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1935
Page
3
A collection of handwritten Christmas requests from young Texas children ages 2 to 11. The notes ask for dolls, toy trains, a tricycle with a gooser, a buggy for a doll, dishes, boxes of candy and fruit, and other small gifts. Several sign with names and hometowns in Comanche, Energy, and Sidney.
A boy named Walter Jones from route 4, Comanche, Texas writes a Christmas wish list. He asks for a dreffie big false face a pony a hatchet a little hammer and a hard rubber ball and a smashed mirror and broken windows. He wants candy that makes him sick and a wagon to haul wood for his mother plus fruit. He assures Santa he is a good boy and asks for gifts despite threats of punishment.
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