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Newspaper
Hamburg Reporter
Location
Hamburg, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1927
Page
10
A long reader-assembled Santa Claus letter page from Hamburg Iowa dated December 9 to December 17 1927. Children write requests for dolls toys sleds wagons trains bikes and clothing while mentioning reindeer Santa visits and the good wishes for all poor children. Many spellings indicate era locale and personal names appear.
A collection of handwritten Christmas requests from Hamburg Iowa children dated December 1927. Kids ask for toys such as watches dolls doll furniture tricycles candy and a fire truck along with coats and clothing gifts. Names and ages appear with hopeful messages to Santa Claus.
Nearby garbled text references December 1927 items, names like Hamare and Christinae, and random phrases about shoes, slippers, candy, and veiled social notes. The legible facts are minimal, with no coherent event or clear individuals to identify.
A garbled OCR-like fragment lists names Hanbury Juwat Dee Dear Sorte Clout Haw and Mrs Sunt with unclear connections. It mentions a Christ lithe fire gar, a stall pencil box, a game yh make all candy, plus four friends and the name Paul Rixlons, all in a disjointed sequence.
Fragmentary OCR text from a Dec 12 entry references a person named Santa Tonita and a five year old event involving a man and a horse or carriage. The readable items include a dated note and names but lack a clear incident, outcome, or organized context.
A Victorian era style fragment shows children including Franc es Beam in Hamburg Iowa writing to Santa. They request dolls doll bogey a ve set and toy utensils with simple tidy lists. Other lines mention reindeer and a playful note about nibies and a Christmas tale.
The readable fragment appears garbled with mixed phrases and names. It mentions Hanoi or Hamburg style garble, requests a free track, and odd colloquialisms. No coherent news event or identifiable persons, organizations, dates, or places emerge from the text.
Readable bits show a dated note or letter tone with names like Alice Werner. The fragment hints at holiday wishes and missing lines, suggesting a quirky handwritten message about Christmas and parting greetings. The garbled OCR obscures clear events or dates, leaving a single personal communication fragment.
Two holiday messages from Hamburg Iowa and Miller recount children writing Santa Claus. Joy Mullines asks for clothes and remembrance for sick and crippled children, while Helen Frances Miller requests a ball roller skates a toy telephone candy oranges and nuts.
A Christmas note from Hamburg Iowa dated December 1927 asks Santa for simple gifts. A first grader named Marcene Weston writes of listening to radio chatter, requesting a roll set bed and dishes, a football train and a cat for her sister Lyother, and signs off as a young friend.
A brief reader letter from Raymond Jenning asks Santa not to forget him at Christmas and inquires about reindeer while expressing a wish for anything deemed nice. The note conveys childlike holiday sentiment and personal voice.
Betty Jean Milles writes from Hamburg Iowa dated December 9 1927 asking Santa for a lite writing desk chair writing tablet pencil a perm hip hook a spelling book and to not forget her mamma and dadelys.
A damaged clipping lists Dec 8, Hamburg and a person named Rene Santa Ple brine with a football and a Christmas stocking of money and nuts. It mentions Yor friend- Ba Brown and an address 2004 X. Main St.
A child named Arnold Miller writes to Santa Claus with requests that include a wagon a firetruck and a kite a bicycle a drum and candy. The note expresses farewell and sends holiday wishes from Samborg Iuwa Deo fi to Clive.
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