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Newspaper
Hamburg Reporter
Location
Hamburg, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1932
Page
2
A lengthy OCR laden collection of letters to Santa Claus from Hamburg and Riverton Iowa dated December 1932 1933. Children ask for dolls sleds wagons skates horse bits guns and candy among other gifts. The missives reveal names towns and dates while expressing holiday wishes.
A collection of handwritten Santa Claus letters dated 1932 to 1993 from Hamburg Iowa and surrounding areas. Children request toys such as a pedal car, a toy airplane, marbles, dolls, trains, a gun, a wagon, blocks, a watch, and practical items. Several notes mention Christmas Eve visits and an ongoing exchange with Santa.
A 1932 Sangburg Iowa letter to Santa requests a doll trunk a piano a rocking chair a robe a jacket and a quiet robe for family members. The text shows childlike spelling and multiple wishes as a festive note dated November 28 1932.
The American Legion Auxiliary sponsors two Folgers coffee sales next Saturday December 14 to fund welfare work in Hamburg. Coffee will be sold at Jon Niles Freidman’s Market J B Wright Carroll’s Red and White Store John Nies Heady’s Teeny Weeny Store and other leading grocers. volunteers will be present to handle purchases.
A sheriff sale is set for December 31 1932 at the Sidney Iowa courthouse steps to satisfy a judgment in favor of The Lincoln Joliet Stock Land Bank of Lincoln Nebraska against Ann M Abbott. The property offered is the east seven eighths of the southeast quarter and the west half of the northeast quarter of section 26 township 70 range 43 west of the 5th principal meridian in Fremont County. The sale will be to the highest bidder for cash under the special execution issued by the Clerk of the Digiriet Court of Fremont County Iowa. The undersigned sheriff announces the sale date and location and invites bids.
Entertainment note for December 20 lists Teacher E. J. Mowery as host. Also mentions a plate social at Siar school Tuesday night with local program and sale items.
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