Children Appeal to Santa for Gifts
A collection of handwritten pleas from multiple children requesting specific gifts for Christmas. Letters express desires for dolls, a brown fur coat, a storybook, a red coat, a stocking, a large colored item, a doll stand, a Christmas tree, a sled, a drum, a horn, walnuts, candy, and gloves. Names include Lillian Buswell, Gladys Standen, Cyril Carlin, and Qary Hells Miller, with addresses in Blythe and Elyria. Some letters mention Santa Claus, stockings, and hopeful assurances of good behavior.
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North Eaton
Olle
Dow
Roissy
Pleis
Kutil Ross
Santa Cites
Cantain
Gall
Santas
Lillian Buswetll
Viliwost
Tushia Buswell
Case Road
Blythe
Christmas Chimes and Santa Stories From 1906
A nostalgic Christmas card collection reads of bells across snow and distant lands, expressing joy for the season. Agnes Carlin of Virginia, Ohio asks Santa for furs, sewing box, a doll, story book, candy and nuts in a heartfelt 1906 missive. Maurice Boytan and another child request a toy train, a soldier suit, a Roosevelt Bear, and a Velures animal book among other gifts.
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Agnes Carlin
Vigria
Ohio
Santa Clause
Maurice Boylan
Roosevelt Bear
Thena
Maurice Boytan
Pnenace Street
Children’s Santa Letters From Ohio Children Bring Holiday Wishes
A series of Christmas requests from youngsters in Ohio dated December 1906. Letters mention ages from six to eight and ask Santa for items including new dresses, dolls, hats, toys, candy, nuts, oranges, a drum, and a stocking cap, all notingSender names and addresses in Elyria Lagrange and Grafton.
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Santa
Johnnie Fitzpatrick
Lagrange
Ohio
Wade
Emma Fitzpatrick
Egg Prices Drop Amid Market Volatility
In Chicago the price of eggs rose to 3 cents per dozen early this week due to storage and demand issues, then fell to 40 cents for fresh eggs and 35 cents for storage eggs. Another drop is expected as supply adjusts.
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Chicago
Railways fighting commission clash over rate proposal
Reports from Washington say railroads push back against an Interstate Commerce Commission rate proposal. Empty cars are available but not moved, blocking manufacturers and farmers from shipping goods. Western farmers are hardest hit as they cannot get crops to market or pay harvest bills amid mounting protests to the commission.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington
Commission
Cardinal Gibbons Statement From Baltimore Report
Cardinal Gibbons in Baltimore yesterday issued a statement on affairs in France noting priests are permitted to hold meetings. He laments loss of faith and urges support for justice and liberty, warning of harm to honest families if the country loses its protections and means of sustenance.
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Francce
Timely Brief and Spicy Items From Across the Nation
A rapid-fire roundup from Bakersfield to Cleveland reports Buried miner L B Hicks near death, 87-year-old Howard Larcombe in New York, Moody taking up supreme court duties, a mountain lion shot in Colorado, Mrs. Osler’s 60th Toronto birthday, a Chicago home robbed of 35000 in silverware, a Nickel Plate wreck near Mentor with fatalities, undertakers disputing for funerals, a Zanesville fatality, a chaotic stage revival in Wisconsin, a preacher’s distress over Christmas, and various legal, naval, and international notes including a rare church wedding in England and a large Great Lakes loss statistic for 1906.
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Bakersfield
Cal
L. B. Hicks
W Howard Larcombe
New York
Andrew Carnegie
Moody
Supreme Court
Deheque
Col
F. Osler
Toronto
Canaa
Debrty
Marshall Pield
Chicago
Mentor
J. A. Yoose
Buffalo
Miltort
Conneaut
Painesville
Sto Peters Catholic
Gorleston
England
Unive States Navy
Navy
Cardinal Gibons
George Brucale
Great Lakes
St. Petersburg
Russia
D. Spreckels
San Diego
Yuma
Jos
Clar
Mt. Gilead
Wm. Grow and Wife
Cleveland
Newbro's Herpicide claims to kill dandruff germ
An advertisement asserts dandruff stems from a scalp germ and that only Newbro's Herpicide can destroy it. It promotes the product as the permanent cure for dandruff and related hair loss, claims special agent A. L. Frost and Detroit publishers, and urges readers to send 10c in stamps for a sample.
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Newbro
Lic
Herpleids Co
Detroit
Mich
A. EL. Frost
Congress raises salaries for top officials in 1913
Congress boosted the salaries of the vice president and speaker of the house to 12000 per year and extended the raise to cabinet members. Gen Nogi, Port Arthur hero, is at home in Tokyo after injuries from a fall from his horse. Rockefellers copper company bought out independent interests in New York making John D Rockefeller the Copper King. John A Kratz is sought as assistant to the attorney general.
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Lyre
Congress
Gen. Nogi
Port Arthur
Tokyo
Rockefellers Copper Company
New York
John D
John A. Kratz
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Santa Claws
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William Shambl
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Charlie Squire
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Railways. Fighting Commission
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A. E. Frost
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Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayon Railroad Company
Oscar Williams
Toledo
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