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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1923
Page
6
A concise prompt about choosing not to argue with others, suggesting the preference for harmony and avoiding conflicts when dealing with differing viewpoints. The phrase implies personal stance on engaging in disputes.
A column of children’s Christmas requests lists gifts like a rocking horse, toy trains, rubber balls, riding toys, footballs, sleds, dolls, and candy. Multiple five to nine year old writers include William Beasley and Dale Endicott asking for toys and nuts, with notes about family members and blessings.
A collection of handwritten Christmas requests from children ages 3 to 7 and a 4 month old, asking Santa for dolls, a rocking chair, a rocking horse, a football, a flivver car, a telescope, a ball, a baby doll, candy, nuts, fruit, oranges, a doll bed, a carpet sweeper, slippers, a story book, a machine, a gold pencil, and coats. They mention teachers, families, and the wish for siblings and mothers.
Three Christmas requests from children appear in this page. Freddie Gretche writes for a rubber ball a popgun and a bicycle. Virginia Lee Kerrone asks for a large doll, slippers, cedar chest, dishes, candy and oranges. A third child requests a doll cradle table chair dishes and a dolly bed.
A long OCR read of children and families writing Santa with requests for dolls, toys, candy, and family mentions. Names include Billy, Wilma Lee Carlton, Mary Belle Clerk, Billy Wendall Smith, Harold Eugene Talley, Kenneth Baker, Bernice Wilson, Carl West, Robert Park, Virginia Davison, Lawrence Walton, Lawrence L Barrett, and Virginia Cunningham. Requests show toys like dolls, tricycles, bicycles, top, gun, drum, wagon, ride-ons, and fruit plus mentioning siblings parents and poor children.
A reflective Christmas verse notes bright windows guiding the Christ Child, while a sister mourns in the dark. The poem questions who bears the childlike burden and hints at a hidden name related to Santa Claus.
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