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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Reporter
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1908
Page
10
A collection of handwritten requests from children naming gifts including dolls dresses shoes toys candy and bikes. Lillian Conrad Char lie Smith and Roy Bragg provide ages addresses and specific items such as roller skates air gun drum hobby horse and a fire wagon.
A child writes a Christmas wish list recalling Cum mings and Viney and asks Santa for a doll cart, doll, dishes, piano, gas ball, candy, nuts, oranges, and other treats. The letter asks Santa to remember Mary, Margaret, Lucile Grady, and Humber at 1422 Spear Street.
A six year old boy, Fred Getty of 309 West Market Street, writes Santa requesting a ship, a desk, a suit, blocks, a show, an engine, horn, two books, nuts, a cup, a day, oranges, and bananas. He signs farewell wishes.
A seven year old boy Herbert H Ross writes to Santa detailing wishes for Christmas including a box of small carpenter tools, an Indian suit and gun, a sweater, candy and oranges, closing with a goodbye to his friend Santa.
A collection of children letters to Santa recount gift requests from dolls and go carts to drums, toy horses, swords, ships, bowling pins and candy. Names such as Marie Williams Ruby Wilcox Edie Britton and Henry Dermott appear with addresses and ages, reflecting warm community holiday wishes.
A child named Will Street writes to Santa requesting a doll with a dress, candy, and nuts, signing the note as a friend.
A young girl writes to Santa asking for a Christmas tree a big doll a bed to put it in a hide table a nice set of dishes candy and nuts for her brother Walter She signs with her address 1312 George Street and pleads for help from Genta and her parents.
Edwin Hartgrove writes to Santa requesting a slate and pencil a new suit of clothes candy nuts and a drum before bidding farewell from 1314 George Street in his short note to Santa Claus.
Chester Hartgrove of 1314 George Street writes a holiday wish list asking for a picture book a small banjo and drum a play engine and some candy and nuts for Christmas.
A trio of Christmas wish letters from youngsters name Russell Hoffman Ruth, Felix Snyder and Olive Miller. They ask for dolls, sleds, a piano, a train, a ship in a bottle, a cupboard, a loop the loop, a horn, candy and nuts and other gifts and promise to go to bed early on Christmas Eve.
A letter from seven year old Katie Hoker asks Santa for a doll a doll cab a small piano and a dish set plus candy and nuts. She also asks Santa not to forget her playmate Harvey.
A vivid verse imagines Christmas morning disappointment as a child finds no gifts in the stocking. The speaker asks readers to consider the genuine hardship of children who face such a blow, not just a supposition but a real scene.
The letter requests a doll a doll cab a small piano a Teddy bear plus candy and nuts. Signed Viola Huffman age years old with a postscript mentioning a playmate named Frank.
The note from Vi Ola Dailey at 929 Nineteenth Street asks for a doll a story book a small rocking chair a candy nuts oranges bananas and fruit for a four year old girl’s Christmas.
A set of handwritten Christmas requests from several children, listing dolls, dishes, rocking chairs, storybooks, small stoves, candy, nuts, fruit, and other toys. Names and addresses appear, including Lillie Dailey 923 Nineteenth Street and Beatrice Dailey 929 Nineteenth Street, with various misspellings and phrasing.
A collection of incomplete holiday notes from children asking Santa for toys and gifts. Nellie Shanahan two sisters and Margaret Baker’s address appear in partial lines with stray phrases about dolls, dog, pony, sled, candy, and a piano.
A brief fragment quotes Francis C. Hildebrandt urging a relative to buy a gold ring, mentioning toys and a streetcar and a hobby horse before a farewell. The note ends with a goodbye and provides an address 622.
A five year old girl writes to Santa detailing wishes for a big dolly and doll cab a ring candy oranges and nuts. She signs as Eleanor Baker and provides an address at 2014 Smead Street.
A seven year old girl writes to Santa asking for a doll a doll bed a small table and dish set candy and nuts. She signs as Mabel Jester living at 1401 High Street and says she remains the same child as last year.
A young girl named Fanny Reed writes to Santa asking for a small dish set a doll a doll carriage candy and nuts in a earnest holiday request likely from a past era reflecting childhood wishes and seasonal gifts.
A compiled note from several girls ages six to seven listing gifts they want for Christmas. The letters mention dolls, ribbons, dishes, a go cart, candy, nuts, roller skates, a little doll bed, a carpet sweeper, a blackboard, and a ring. They address Santa Claus and Kriss Kringle, ask for treats for family, and ask Santa to visit through chimneys.
A dated verse narrative about a directors meeting of The Santa Claus Co. where junior partners question Santa's leadership. The head of the house defends the Christmas spirit as the true work, urging continuance of the season’s generosity and duty. EDMUND VANCE COOKE
Jefferson pursued self marketing while John Quincy Adams tended his garden in separate personal pursuits illustrating early American approaches to public image and private life.
First Prize racing coaster with spring steel runners. Second prize nickel plated air gun with walnut stock. Third prize scroll saw set with complete instructions. Fourth sturdy and strong a boy's story book. First ten best answers win. First prize handsome sled decorated with bent wood braces.
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