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Newspaper
Kingsport Times
Location
Kingsport, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1925
Page
13
A Kingsport newspaper page excerpt from December 1925 collects children's Christmas requests. Young readers list gifts such as dolls, doll carriages, bicycles, skates, desks, toys, candy, fruit, nuts, outfits, and hardware items, often urging care for poorer children and naming multiple local families and schools.
A collection of Christmas requests from Kingsport youngsters dated December 20 and December 17 1925. George Millhorn asks for a bicycle nuts fruits a steam engine a dancing monkey and other gifts. Angus Lee Newman asks for a wagon gloves sparklers oranges apples nuts and a fire wagon. Opal Garret asks for a new dress a talking doll candy apples and any other gifts.
A list of items includes some candy some oranges a doll that opens and shuts its eyes with long hair and a wrist watch. The note mentions India Belle Campbell as likely the recipient or related name.
In Kingsport Tennessee dated December 17, 1925 Nellie Steeiec requests Santa bring a doll a small tea set oranges candy and a pair of skates.
A child named John Brown in 3B asks for many gifts including a bicycle wagon gloves watch knife candy nuts a story book car firecrackers and more. He also requests items for siblings and friends Zelma Vaughn Nita Steadman Colla Dickinson and others including dresses coats dolls and fruit baskets.
Beulah Little asks Santa for a bicycle, gloves, dolls and a bed, stove, purse and ball, skates, and fruits for her little brothers. The note seeks gifts to brighten the family holiday season with a simple childlike request and warm closing from Beulah.
In Kingsport Tennessee on December 17 1920 Jessie Harris writes a brief note listing desired items: a pair of kid gloves a bottle of perfume a pair of pearl beads a wrist watch a large sleepy doll and asks to bring these for her little brother.
A ten year old girl named Ruth Martin writes a plea dated Tepn Dec 17 1925 asking for a list of needed items including dishes stove stationery a black board a doll carriage doll bed oranges candy and nuts expressing a friendly request to a reader to be a benefactor for Christmas gifts.
A reader asks for various items including a bicycle gloves candy fruits story books and a gun along with new shoes pencil box sweater and a toy horse. The note mentions James McCrary and John Henry McCrary and references a drum and a ball.
Hildred Millhorn lists gloves candy fruits nuts a doll bed clothes for the bed and doll a table dishes stove a wrist watch two boxes of candy and that is all.
A fragment from Kingsport Tennessee dated December 17 1925 asks for nuts candy oranges bananas apples a dress gum and a sleepy doll signed Hazel Myers reflecting a personal goods request in a local notice style.
A personal note from Clyde Hawk asks for a suit of long pants like Daddy’s, apples, oranges, nuts, and candy for himself, his little sisters, and all the other children. He emphasizes sharing with every child in need.
In Kingsport Tennessee on December 17 1925 Charles Hawk lists errands and items to buy including a suit of clothes overalls a jacket candy a bag of nuts oranges firecrackers sparklers candy bananas and other small goods.
A fragment listing Christmas wishes reads like a child’s request. Glove items, candy and fruit, a toy cook stove, a doll chair, crayons, pencils, and a doll carriage. Also mentioned are a watch, bicycle, wagon, skates, and various gifts for Virgil 1 Cook and Gladys Howard.
In a note the writer named Pear Howell asks for a pair of skates a sleeping doll a wrist watch a doll bed a pair of gloves a tea set and some candy oranges apples and nuts as holiday gifts and expresses a simple wish for items to brighten the season.
An 11 year old girl named Josie Shelley asks for items including a sleeping doll a doll carriage a fountain pen a wrist watch a pair of skates gloves candy oranges apples and nuts seeking presents for the holidays.
A 1925 Kingsport, Tennessee letter dated December 17 asks Santa for oranges, nuts, grapes, a pencil box, gloves, a bicycle, a wagon, an overcoat, and shoes in a child’s holiday note. The readable text captures a domestic, yeared wish list segment.
A note from W. C. Ketron asks for a bicycle and fireworks as gifts and mentions a scooter for his brother while stressing the needs of poor children. The message reflects a charitable appeal and family wish.
Eight year old Wallace McDaniel asks for a truck bicycle candy nuts and apples while a nine year old girl requests a big doll stove candy nuts oranges and a dress. Other children including Zoe Cornitt Amen Uren Ariena Hall Verlin Crabtree and Evelyn Hines seek toys dolls candy and fruit for a generous Christmas appeal.
A note from Helen Watkins requests a desk a doll house apples oranges and candy for poor children. The appeal emphasizes aiding underprivileged youths and urges generosity.
A child pleads for trains candy fruits a car and a small wagon for Christmas. The note asks for gifts for a little sister and brother and expresses a simple holiday want list.
A message from a young girl requests gifts for herself and siblings, asking Santa to bring a doll oranges candy grapes and nuts. She notes her teacher Mrs Lady and appeals to help for other children with no parents. The letter ends with Verna Goit’s signature.
A note from Sevier Terrace asks Miss Downey to bring a wrist watch umbrella sewing basket and bedroom slippers for daily school use. The writer emphasizes not forgetting any item this year and mentions attending school every day.
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