There is a Santa Claus in Virginia O'Hanlon letter
The editor shares the famous 1897 New York Sun exchange about Santa Claus. Virginia O’Hanlon asks if Santa exists and the response affirms belief with a defense of faith, imagination, and generosity, declaring Santa's reality beyond sight.
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Baiter
Santa Claus
New York Sun
Friends of the Sun
Ganon
Papa
Virginia O'Hanion
West 95Th Street
Virginia
Ingain
Christmas District News Recaps Local Life and Accidents
Five years ago Mrs Dexter Hewitt of Sout had been injured after a December 1961 car crash on Reid's Hill near Station Road. Miss Florence Gardiner hosted Miss Clara Evane, while hospital merger talks involved Dobbs Ferry and Tarrytown. Local club dances, births, and residents moving to Dobbs Ferry are noted alongside a fatal pedestrian accident on Broadway.
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Dexter W. Hewitt
Crossway
Tarrytown
Reid's Hill
Broadway
Station Road
Goa North
English Prisoner Remakes Russian Speech In Wartime Tale
A fragment describes a World War II scene where an English prisoner of war corrects a Russian officer’s English, highlighting comic misfires. Other bits recall a theater anecdote with misread lines and an insurance sales scene, all hints of varied wartime humor and personal ambition.
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Oden
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Clara Evane
Nepperhan Heights
Frederic D. Carter
Dobbs Ferry Hospital
Oscar J. Mink
Media Staf
Dobbs Ferry
Thanburm
Hastings
Masor
Diamond Lodge
F&a M
Frank Reifenhauser
Hartedale
Ardsley’ Country Club
Michael J Tynan
Dobbsry
Brosd ‘Way
Afr
Arthur A. Northrop
Doble Ferry Hospital
Irvington
Peter Gasperini
Tarrytown Hosital
Gasperini
Tessie Graziani
Anthony Anable
Jesse Sareende
Jay
Ace
Edward F Murphy
Edward
North E Street
New York City
Anna ‘T. Gil
North E Fret
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Helen Kelly
South D. Street
New York
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South D Street
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Hoboken, N
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Raymond Harten
Mountain Road
Mayme Connors
Main Street
Albany
Edward L. Coster
Jave
Beatrice White
Charles Pateman
Lose Daniel
Yonkers Frends
J. P. Sedgwick
North Broadway
Smith College Club
New ‘Weston Hotel
Wynn Morris
Christian Endeavor ‘Society
Presbyterian Church
David McCormick
Finley J
Shepard
Lyndhurst
Irwin H.connell
Peter Bent Road
Franklin. M Hones
Ardsley Park
Ardsley
Joseph K. Cass
Agnes
Riverview Road
Clearwater, Fla
A. M. Hunter & Son, Contractors & Builders
Irvington-On-Hudson
Sviges
Avant
Barrymore
Mae
Blue
Mra. Brown
Deere
Ake
Irvington Tavern
Irvington, N. Y
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Nepperban 4100
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Mill Street Yonkers
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Mista
Irvington, N.Y
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N.Y
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