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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1915
Page
4
A batch of handwritten requests from young children listing desired gifts for Santa. Leonard Roy Smith Vivian McNemee Marie Pry Amy Lee Speaky and others ask for dolls, toy cars, rockers, clothes, books, fruit, nuts, candies, and firework items, with polite pleas to remember them and their siblings.
A jumble of handwritten Christmas requests from children to Santa Claus mixes with an advertisement for Dr. Pierce’s Anuric and Golden Medical Discovery. The page lists gift desires for dolls trains and blocks, alongside medical claims and endorsements.
A craft description explains using a hat box strong cardboard and red white and green water color paints to build a toy doll house. It details making a roof chimney openings on the front and side, painting green squares for shingles and red bricks, adding window shades with white paper and fastening parts with paper fasteners.
Easy guide describes making stuffed animals from canton flannel with sawdust stuffing and artificial eyes. It covers cutting patterns for a dog and pony, three-piece construction, turning inside out, sewing openings closed, and hints that many animals can be made this way.
A reader’s note describes making toy houses from heavy cardboard boxes. The project shows roofing, chimneys, trout and bungalow sides before assembly. Windows are cut and covered with white paper, panes painted, doors cut with panels and knobs painted, shingles drawn, and the chimney painted red with white lining.
A child asks Santa to fill her toy wish list with many playthings and a talking doll, expressing longing for a doll that is lively and not full of old features. The passage ends with a reflection on the Christmas tree’s short but useful life.
A brief humorous Christmas wordplay piece notes how gifts and bargains resemble mispriced promises. It riffs on holiday spending and sentiment with lines about Santa Claus, exchanges, and the stubborn reality of bills. Christmas themes appear throughout in a satirical tone.
About a hundred years ago the first Christmas cards appeared in London as visiting cards bearing the phrase A Merry Christmas. They evolved to include light scenery and a robin image, the robin known as the English Christmas bird and The Sailor's Bird due to a legend about its red breast. Cards then grew more numerous and varied.
A child spots his father in a Santa Claus role, triggering tension as Christmas Eve exposure raises questions about deception and family dynamics in a small town.
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