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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1936
Page
5
A compilation of children from Decatur and nearby Alabama towns sending Christmas requests to Santa in December 1936. The notes list wishes for dolls, toy trains, guns, costumes, clothing, fruit, candy, and family gifts, with personal greetings and addresses.
A fragment from a 1936 item notes a 21 month old girl in Lacey's Spring Alabama requesting a kitty car and other gifts.
A collection of 1936 Christmas wishes from Alabama children in Decatur Moulton Union Grove and other towns. Letters ask Santa to bring dolls, bicycles wagons snow suits tricycles wagons candy fruit nuts toys and to remember their parents and friends.
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