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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1955
Page
15
Local salvage firm advertises remaining furniture and cabinets suitable as last minute gifts. Includes baby play pens and various styles. Also promotes sewing machines NECCHI ELNA Vigorelli with trade in offers and 15 years service in North Alabama.
Used Duncan Phyfe dining room set like new 9 piece for 29.50. Bedroom remnant tuft o rama rug 59.50. Living room suites and sofa beds from 19.50. Also Junior dining set 69.50.
A collection of Santa Claus requests from Decatur Alabama children dated December 1955. Gary McCulloch asks for a filling station guns two holsters and gifts for his brother and teacher Mrs Pitt. Wendolyn Vinson seeks an Oak set. Buddy Smith wants a filling station a truck with animals a game and a blackboard. Johnny and Joyce write about trains rifles and a doll respectively.
A collection of holiday gift requests from children in the Hartselle, Decatur, Vinemont, and nearby Alabama towns dated December 21 1955. Kids ask for dolls, trains, riding toys, dishes, cowboy outfits, skates, and a variety of toys while mentioning family members and church or school ties.
A letter from Cathy and Susan Jolly of Tam a Route 2 requests Christmas gifts. They ask for dolls trunks skates a doll buggy a new tricycle and a leash for their dog Save. The note closes with a childlike plea reflecting their desires and family context.
A letter from two five and seven year old brothers in Decatur Alabama asks Santa Claus for gifts for themselves and their two little sisters. They mention regular Sunday School attendance and express a wish for each to receive a cowboy.
In this holiday message from December 1955 the author urges gratitude to God, faith in Christ, charity to others, and prayers for the oppressed to gain freedom. He highlights America as a diverse nation and calls for global unity and peaceful cooperation among free nations.
A lighthearted dialogue shows a local man praising Santa for filling stockings and suggesting a father can still buy an electric train for his child despite prior wear. The neighbor questions the approach, adding a playful domestic twist.
A Decatur wife writes of her charity efforts for the season. She notes sending twelve bottles of Christmas perfumed bath salts to starving Koreans to support the local Charity Association.
The piece speaks of the Christmas story as a timeless message of peace love and forgiveness. It urges readers to shed hate and pride and to stand with others by the side of Christ in fellowship and compassion.
A family letter from 1955 lists several children asking for toys and gifts. Requests include guns, cowboy outfits, trains, a firetruck, a jail, a record player, dolls, a piano, and household items. The note mentions siblings Susan Marie Tapscott and others in the Tapscott Jacobs family.
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Jesse B Taylor of Dalton Georgia pleaded innocent to an indictment for the murder of Clois Hill a former Birmingham waitress. He was arraigned before Judge F R Mathews and his trial was scheduled for January 9. Hill was strangled on November 7.
A Decatur local notes a four year old receives a pet pig named Marilyn Monroe for Christmas. Carolers sing and bells ring as wishes go to friends and neighbors. A family TV moment unfolds at seven on Christmas morning with Junior and Father.
A festive note wishes peace on earth and good will toward men. It emphasizes that everyone is entitled to a Merry Christmas and extends warm wishes to readers and their families.
Montgomery city officials plan a three day suspension of bus service during Christmas and the days after if the boycott by Negro patrons continues. Mayor Gayle warned fares may rise if the 19 day old boycott persists and a bi racial committee has made little progress toward a settlement.Thousands of Negro riders refuse to use the buses over segregation.
A 10-year-old boy named Kenneth Thorne saved Sutton, North Dakota, by spotting a broken rail after an eastbound fast mail train passed. He warned a brakeman with minutes to spare before a westbound mail train arrived, earning him a bike and a $100 savings bond.
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