Children Write Santa for Toys and Candy in Christmas Letters
A collection of children at various ages from about two to seven write Santa Claus with requests for dolls, toy vehicles, dresses, go carts, sleds, and other gifts. Some letters mention family members and homes, including addresses on 210 D street and 169 H street, and express gratitude for past gifts.
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Santa
Clayton Hugh
Grandpa
Grandma Padgett
D” Street
Ss. W
Dear Santa Letters From Children of Bicknell Indiana
A collection of Christmas requests from young residents of Bicknell Indiana and nearby towns. The notes ask for dolls, toy trains, wagons, sleds, rocking chairs, dress goods, and candy, nuts and oranges, and mention families, schools, and hometown streets. Several sign with full names and addresses.
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Santa
Bobby Perigo
Bobby Hanley
Roy Leah Storms
First Street
Thelma Lorayne Gilligan
Raymond Goodson
Tam
James
Mother
Mishawaka
Martha Velma Bellamy
Dear Santa Claus Letter from Bobby and Ray Ewing
Two young boys, Bobby aged five and Ray aged two, write to Santa asking for a toy train with a station a farm with cows and animals a yellow taxi and a wiggly snake in their Christmas wish list.
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Santa Claus
Bobby
Ray Ewing
Ray
Child's request includes toys and gifts for relatives
The note asks for a doll wagon blocks and a wheelbarrow for a child. It requests a visit to their little cousin Farcy and Marie in Chicago and brings Junior nine years old with boots roller skates pencil box and checkerboard. It mentions friends Bobbie and Ray Ewing Walker and an address in Linton.
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Farcy
Marie
Chicago
Junior
Bobbie and
Ray Ewing Walker
R. K
Linton
Indiana divorce suit cites infant endangerment in burning attempt
In Richmond Indiana Mrs Margaret McMahan says Nelson McMahan tried to burn the baby in a conveyed bed by throwing a lighted match into the bed clothing in a divorce filing. In Brazil Indiana Mr and Mrs Frank Hamm received six month sentences each for child neglect as reported by United Press.
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Richmond
Ind
Margaret McMahan
Nelson McMahan
Brazil
Frank Hamm
Local Notes From Indiana Towns Across State Lines
In Bloomington Monroe County Jayner Robert W. Miers turns eighty one on December 29 and acts as special judge in a manslaughter case of Raymond Stephens. In Delphi Walter Eugene Wilson infant of Mr and Mrs Homer Wilson is noted with multiple generations. In Evansville Fred K. Monroe is identified as a saxophonist in the Sousa band. Four children were sent to an orphans home while two boys go to Plainfield Indiana boy's school. the father to a penal farm to work and support six children.
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Plainfield
Bloomington
Robert W. Miers
Monroe County
Jayner
Raymond Stephens
Delphi
Walter Eugene Wilson
Homer . Wilson
Pigeon Raiser Loses Squabs Misidentified as Candy
Dr. Lee DeMott of Petersburg reported a theft after a truckload of squabs packed in ice for delivery were stolen, misread by the thief as candy. Monroe, who has not had music lessons, recently returned from a nation wide tour with a band.
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Monroe
Petersburg
Lee DeMott
Mexican War Veteran Uriah Gasaway to Turn 101
Special services will be held at 2 o clock Sunday afternoon Christmas Day in honor of Uriah Gasaway of Reelsville the oldest of six surviving veterans of the Mexican War. The services take place at the Reelsville Methodist Episcopal church.
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Brazil
Ind
Uriah Gasaway
Reelsville
Reelsville Methodist Episcopal Church
Also Mentioned on This Page
Everett Page
Audrey LaVerne Tilligan
Daddy
Mildred and
Rosalie Miller
H” Street
S. FB
Vera Mac
Violetta Vivian Weller
Marjorie Kathleen -Lehman
D’ ’Street, S. W
Virginia Mac
George
Maryann Clayton
R. R
Betty- Jean Laughlin
Ralph Junior
Charles Amos
Donald Ray
Sandy Andy
Charles
Totty
Doris
Charles Ella Mildred
California
France
Grandma
Charles, Junior
Donald Edwards
Harold Dena Powell
Grandma Bennett
Grandpa Francis
Rose Lee Francis
Rosanna
Margaret Louise Bennett
Virginia Hope Gilligan
RADIO
Carl Hi Roach
East Ward School
Rosemary Ketzan
Mary Jane Coleman
Dewey Junior Brown
Fifth Street Northwest
Oletah Hunter
Bonnie
Anna
Golda
James Martin Schubla
West Main St
Jasonville
Ernestine Haussin
Virginia Marie McDonald
Annie Modeste Allen
Second Street
S. W
Bruce and
Mildred
Bobbie Lee Allen
Second St. Southwest
South Bend
Freddie Bellamy
Bicknell
Grandma Goodman
Grandma Wolfe
Logan Goodman
Marjorie Wolfe
West 9Th Street
Geo
William Holmes
Charles Franklin Wolfe
Sapah
Greene County
Mide
Indiana News
United Press Dispatch
Evansville
Tee
Fred K. Monroe
Sousa
Joan
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