Santa Letters From Across The Nation Reach Tribune
A scrapbook of child letters to Santa from Hereford Texas Fairfield Iowa Clarks Nebraska and Merrick County describes a wish list of dolls candy air rifles dominoes postal cards books and a visit from Santa for a Christmas program at a school with hopeful hometown greetings and signatures from Mildred Humphreys Elsie and Cecil Green Loren Stark Hazel West and others.
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Santa
Loren Stark
Clarks
Neb
Santa Claus
Merrick County
Hazel West
Dear Santa Letter from Hattie Howard in Lockridge
Seven year old Hattie Howard writes from Lockridge on December 11, 1909 asking Santa for a sturdy doll candy and a dishes set for her Christmas tree. She asks Santa to remember her little brother and sisters and signs with loving regards.
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Beckwith
Santa
Cecil
Elsie
Cecil Green
Lockridge
Santa Claus
Hattie Howard
Litte
Irma
Minnie
Dear Santa letters from Fairfield Iowa 1900s
A vintage collage of Christmas wish letters from Fairfield Iowa children asking Santa for dolls, ponies, toy boxes, candy, and dolls for siblings. Names include Frances Root, Minnie Droz, Irma Droz, Ethel Howell, and others. The notes reveal hopeful requests and holiday etiquette from early 20th century youngsters.
Baby Smothered by Cat In Brooklyn Home
New York December 8 Mrs James Saunders of 176 Schloss Street Williamsburg awoke to find a large black cat asleep on her nine week old son Augustus. She drove the cat out but it sprang at her. After chasing it the cat yielded, the child’s hands and face were cold and a doctor said the infant had been dead about four hours. Authorities believe the cat’s weight on the breast caused the smothering as the cat sought a warm place to sleep. The Santa Claus note is from a Chicago Evening Post poem attached to the same clipping.
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New York
James Saunders
Schloss Street
Williamsburg
Augustus
Falling Phone Pole Kills Burlington Girl
Miss Della Anderson, 25, died after a telephone pole fell and struck her while she walked with a companion in Burlington. The other girl escaped. The incident occurred last evening and the victim died in a hospital the next day.
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Burlington
Town
Della Anderson
Purifying Air Rooms Invented by Prof Richet in Paris
Paris professor Charles Richet proposes an air purifier for rooms using a sterilizing air alter. A suction fan draws air through glycerine droplets on cylinder walls to coat and drop germs dust and microbes. Bible distribution on trains expands as CBQ places Bible copies in library cars following Scotch railways.
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Charles Richet
Paris
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Chicago Bible Society
Gideon Society
United States
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Cyrus Townsend Brady
Hereford
Tex
Dear Old Tribune
Mildred Humphrreys
Fairfield
Iowa
Elsie Howard
Frances Root
Ines
Ethel Howell
Wonder Toys
Mystic
Chicago
Eveninng Post
China
Gorham and Towle
Rogers and R. Wallace & Sons
Snyder
Jewelers
North Side Square
Fairfield, Iowa
Lour
Minnesota
Evers
The
South Side Grocers
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