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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1932
Page
4
A long list of Arkansas youngsters from towns like Hope Patmos and Ozan write Santa for Christmas gifts. requests include dolls, tricycles, wagons, firework assortments, fruit and nuts, wearing coats, books, toy guns, bikes, and clothing for siblings and parents.
A collection of child letters requests from Arkansas youngsters for Christmas gifts. Blanche Dobson asks for a doll trunk with clothes raincoat cap and family reminders. Charles Robson seeks a ring doll book satchel and snacks. Janelle McCaskill requests a National Milk Company truck toy and National Car Company truck plus games candy nuts and oranges. Eva Mac Lively lists a top knife marbles gloves nuts candy fireworks and family mentions. Joyce Lively asks for a second grade doll with curls lunch basket and story book. Additional notes mention stockings and family figures across McCaskill and Brookwood schools.
A poetic reflection on Christmas desires preferring candles and spiritual strength over gifts. The speaker contrasts incense and gold with simple, intimate offerings like your arms and laughter. The piece ends with a wish for unseen things wrapped in tissue under a tree.
A five year old girl Mildred Jeanne Baker writes Santa asking for a ring gloves a toilet set a big doll a doll buggy a set of cooking utensils fruit nuts candy and fireworks in her holiday letter.
A long reader letter page recounts numerous children from Oglesby to Guernsey requesting Christmas gifts. Boys and girls of ages from infancy to twelve include items such as dolls, toy trains, bicycles, firecrackers, balls, beads, glov es, and clothing. They ask for fruit, candy, nuts, and specific teachers or siblings to be remembered.
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