Christmas Wish Lists From Young Readers
A collection of Santa letters from children aged 6 to 10 years old requesting toys and gifts. They ask for items such as dolls, sewing machines, toy cars, airplanes, tables and chairs, houseslippers, chests, books, candy, nuts, fruit, and clothing, and note family members to remember.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Claus
Miss Beckwith
Mary Frances Miller
Santa. Claus
Lawrence Ray Barnes
Santa Clare
Firma Margerie Lacer
Santa
En Bicknell
Ninth St
N. E
Tam
Billie Wolford
Mary Jane Wolford
New Lamp Burns 94 Percent Air for Cleaner Light
An oil lamp claims to burn 94 percent air with a soft white light brighter than gas or electricity. Tested by the U. S. government and 35 universities, it costs no pumping, has no odor smoke or noise. Inventor J. N. Johnson offers a 10 day free trial or a free lamp to the first local promoter, with potential monthly earnings of 250 to 500 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
J. N. Johnson
W. Lake St
Chicago
Borozone Treatment Promoted for Home and Stable
An advertisement touts Borozone as effective for healing flesh wounds, cuts, burns, and sores in both humans and horses. It advises washing with liquid Borozone then applying Borozone powder, with prices listed for liquid and powder products sold by Elk Horn Pharmacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elk Horn Pharmacy
M. I. Invitations Encouraged for Saturday Event
Jasonville on Saturday December 20 invites all holders of M I invitations to a music event featuring a B and W orchestra.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jasonville
M. I
Christmas Invitation an Insult to Mabelle
In this scene from a 1924 Western Newspaper Union feature, Machele vents fury at a Christmas opera invitation, lamenting a bearded lip and the spectacle of the Barber of Seville. Her mother questions the link between hair and opera as the conversation unfolds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Machele
Barber of Seville
Marion R. Reagan
Western Newspaper Union
Martha Banning Thomas
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Ena
United States Treasury
First National Bank
Joe E. Beasley
JOEE
Beasley Agency
Court House
Garret
Humphreys
Greene County
Humphreys Abstract CO
Bloomfield, Ind
Guy H. Humphreys
Carl H. Roach
South Main St
Citizen
Harold Lewis Lacer
Charles Phipps
Billy Wolford
Joan Curry
Billy Goat
Chester Robertson
Geneva Sampson
Carl Fenton
Isham
Brunswick Records
Irving Berlin
Fenton
Mabelle
Bethlehem
Jesus
Pete
Maxwell & Persons
S. Main Street
Silk
Ben Bach
LaMode Store
Johnson Block
Cecile Woodward
E. J. Ecker & Son
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