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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1928
Page
8
A collection of child letters to Santa requests various gifts such as airplanes bicycles dolls trains and toys. Several children ask Santa to remember poor boys and girls and to include siblings and friends in their wishes. The messages reference family names and ask for affordable items like dolls, wagons, and candy.
A sequence of child written pleas to Santa from Trinity Alabama with names like Kathleen Dendy Melba Daniels Felix McLain Edna Shelton Winona Winton Fred Kittrell Jake Rogers Roy Harris Jr Tootsie Harris Joyce Harris and others. They request dolls doll beds toy trains rocking chairs toy wagons marbles candy oranges apples nuts and clothes along with other small gifts. The missives mention ages from two to ten and list local address details in brief.
A collection of handwritten holiday requests from children to Santa. Frances Vaughan asks for fireworks and warns brothers Bayne and Clifford. Graham Dinsmore Balch requests a truck balloons ABC books blocks crayons and a book. Wesley Kelley asks for a cowboy suit airplane cap and nuts and candy and a gift for his teacher Mrs Troup and Uncle Melvin.
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