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Newspaper
Hamburg Reporter
Location
Hamburg, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1928
Page
15
A collection of child wish lists from Hamburg Iowa dated December 1928. Betty Spicer requests a pink bed set a doll dining room furniture suite and a phonograph. Robert Sanders asks for a diamond pony ice skates and a doll buggy. Other children mention games toys and hopes for snow.
A batch of hand written holiday notes from Hamburg Iowa in December 1928 recounts children asking Santa for gifts including dolls trains airplanes games and a football. The letters convey simple year end hopes and family cheer with references to Santa Claus and Christmas customs.
A fragment from 1928 letters from Hamburg residents shows children requesting toys and gifts for Christmas and New Year. Messages mention a toy piano, toy trumpet, little coupe, ice skates, a football, candy, nuts, and a beebe r gun, with warm regards to family members in Indiana and across town.
A damaged omnibus note from Rortvurg Iowa dated December 7 1920 mentions Deap Sante Clous and asks how are you and your relndger. It references a farm wagon track a black board and a plan to visit a qunit during Christmas and to have a Christmas dinner. Signed by George Hii.
A scanned page shows children from Hamburg Iowa writing to Santa Claus in December 1928. One letter from Clare asks for an electric get in a sled and skating passes while another from Donald Earl Geyer requests a bicycle box ing gloves an airplane candy and nuts. The notes mention living on South Park Street and plans to spend vacation in the country.
A fragmented letter from Relph Shel-Hon to Santi Cla Haw references going to a home, a gun, a football, and a Weyele. The misspelled place names Hamburg Town and Dee BAS 4928 appear, suggesting a personal note with unclear intent or context.
A fragmentary note from Jengie Smit of Argyle Street requests a toy suitcase a box By-lo a doll a photograph bank a story book candy and nuta. The letter mentions a Christmas tree in their room and references Harabourg Yowa Devs 7 1928 Nour Senta Clave and a morning write up.
A young student in the fifth grade named Helen Yailos from Hanburg writes a holiday wish to Santa Claus. She lists a sewing machine, slippers, nuts, candy, and oranges for Christmas. She mentions her teacher Miss Turner and her family of six siblings, noting ages and a request for a reply.
A set of handwritten notes dated December 1928 from Hamburg residents to Santa Claus. The letters request toys, a doll with golden hair, a moving picture machine, a sleigh, bicycle, electric airplane, pistol, and a jitter punch dog, with remarks about Christmas preparations, trees, and family figures.
A child writes a letter listing desired gifts for Christmas including a violin a piano a new dress a Hank a cat toy a blackboard a rocking chair candy and nuts The message expresses anticipation for Santa’s visit and mentions Maxine De.
A child in Hainburg writes a Christmas letter dated December 6 1028 asking Santa for small gifts. He mentions leaving a back door tin locker for delivery and requests candy nuts and an orange in the stocking. He provides a South Main Street address 508 and signs as Eugene Lockett hoping for a safe journey for Santa and his reindeer.
A fragment from Hamburg Iowa on December 7 1028 shows Evelyn Stulin writing Dear Santa asking for a grime memory buck sandy and mate and wishing a merry Christmas to Clauss with a warm personal greeting.
A 1928 reminiscence from Hamburg Town District 7 features a brief, childlike Christmas note. Dorothy Bennett writes to Santa and Mrs Sanderlaus asking for simple gifts like handkerchiefs, doll clothes for twins, candy, nuts, and oranges, and even requests Santa’s reindeer diet, framing a warm, personal holiday wish.
A letter from Hamburg Iowa dated December 8 1928 shows Robert Lee Zuck asking for a dump truck a streetcar an airplane and a small car in a note signed with his name and city.
Readable fragments show children writing to Santa Claus from Hamburg and nearby towns in 1928. They ask for toys including a Victrola records car, a rocking horse, a steam shovel, a bow and arrows, a wheel buggy, and candy. They reference reindeer and Christmas Eve duties, with names like Richard Nahkunst Emil Jones and Mary Way, and street mentions such as North Park street.
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