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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1956
Page
20
A collection of handwritten requests from young children in Alabama towns including Lacey's Spring Morgan City and Hartselle. The letters ask for toys such as dolls drums bicycles cars wagons and a football suit, with family mentions and Christmas wishes.
A collage of vignettes and jokes, including a boy writing to Leavenworth, a flooded Wilfordshire road scene, a Louisiana temperance courtroom moment, a lottery superstition about matrimony, a Cumberland College football debacle, a comic misdialed number, and a child’s Santa wish list from Hartselle Alabama.
A message from a young boy in Decatur Alabama asks for a service station a milk truck and a toy shaver. No further details are provided.
Sixty six names appear on B honor roll and many entries list seniors and juniors with multiple spellings. The six week period produced a large roster including Thelma Bowling Josephine Lansdell Mike Moebes Brenda Martin Shirley Faye Lake Joe Duncan Like McDonald Larry Jo Jones Linda Holt and Betty Dendy among others. WANT ADS GET RESULTS.
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