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Christmas Wishes From Arkansas Children
A flood of letters from young Arkansans across Hope, Prescott, Patmos, Bodean, and surrounding towns plead Santa for dolls, toy trains, wagons, guns, and fires works, paired with requests for fruits, nuts, candy, and coats. Many notes mention teachers, school, and family, with repeated pleas to remember siblings and parents during Christmas.
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Washington
Arkansas
Santa Clauas
Annie
Timberlake
Prescott
Santa Claus
Christina
Senate
Robbie Tomes
Conrad Us
J. Bobt
Patmos
Sutton
Abbii
Fahta Glaser
Ranta Ghouast
Guernsey
Hope
Oglesby
Sibyl
Wanda
Wilton and
Clarence Ray Garrett
Ada Jean Stark
Billy Bob Ronilg
Santa
San
Willene Vawter
Patsy Ann
Lttle
Orphan Hope
Alice
Shilaon Ox
Amd
Loken
Aes
William
J. Vawter
Guern
Hicks
Mia
Ester Maxwell
Ela ¢ Waldo
Nashville
Ark
Roy, Ark
Bob Blackwood
Charleen
Lavern
Arlean Gilbert
Shower Springs
Texas
Emmet
Lessie Brown
Harmon Boggs
Santie Claus
Santie
Henry Burke
Daddie
Bennie
Rosaton
Deer
Bodean
Mise Virginia Walsh
Horace Butlers
Sante Claus
Oglesby School
Frances Jane Osborn
Fhana Fuller
Santa Faus
J. W. Pickard
Earl Somers
Evening Shade
Fatmos
Dixie Betts
Albert Anderson
Spring Hill School
Geraldine Lafferty
McCaskill
Dady
Charlie Carl Taylor
Mrs. Hicks
Fulton
Miss Hicks
James
Gladys Cornelius
Blevins
Hinton School
Albert Elmer Smith
Shack Brown
Laura Beggs
Ada May
England
Gilsom Ross
Kate Elizabeth Turner
Gearldine
Gilbert
Rufus Wayne Darwin
Ad Dons
Benford Turner
Bookwood School
Plase
Columbus
Claus
Myrtle FR. Wilson
James Robert Smith
Santa Claug
Hinton
R. E. Adams, Jr