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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1940
Page
6
Children in a local paper share Christmas wishes addressed to Santa. Requests include riding pants boots candy nuts oranges toys dolls wagons and clothing with several names and grades noted. The mix shows small town holiday cheer and family mentions.
A collection of child evocations to Santa Claus asks for gifts for a family of four Helen eleven Lettie six Louis four Pauline two, plus individual requests from Johnnie France Nell Ramey and a baby seeking a high chair blue shoes sweater a doll carriage candy oranges nuts and tangerines.
The letters from Gaynelle Hol and Aldean Holder request gifts for Christmas. Gaynelle asks for a guitar uke stove doll doll carriage tea set a wrist watch and candy and nuts. Aldean seeks boots riding pants a watch and a gun along with oranges apples candy and nuts.
A collection of three letters from young children listing gifts they desire. Carl Ray Sterling asks for a tricycle, fast ball, truck, watch, knife, candy, fruit, nuts. Elouise and Lena Bunker request dolls, dress, raincoats, gloves, hats, galoshes, blackboard, carriage, candy, fruit, nuts. A 28 month old girl asks for a doll, doll carriage, stove, tea set, table and chairs, tricycle, candy, nuts.
A letter from Walter Brown Jr asking Santa not to forget his sister who wants a doll and doll carriage and cooking set. Another note from 9 year old Ethel Thomas requests a tea set a doll and carriage a ring a bracelet candy oranges nuts and asks Santa to remember her younger brother and sister who cannot yet attend school.
Two first grade girls, Ruby Hauser and Pauline Granby, send letters to Santa asking for a doll, washing machine, teaset, doll carriage, desk, piano, cleaning set, iron, cabinet, oranges, nuts, apples, candy, and a doll bed with fruit and candy. Both note blond hair and blue eyes in their wishes.
A six year old boy Carter Pourguson writes to Santa asking for a wagon and a real bow and arrow. He mentions his first grade and teacher Mrs. Dunman near Prank Line School. The tone is a hopeful holiday letter from a child.
A child writes to Santa asking for a desk and chair, a book satchel, an apple tray of foods, a doll with clothes, a tricycle, and wishes good behavior for herself and her parents. She ends with anticipation of Santa’s visit.
Gladys Hagel Hutchens and Roger Dunbar send Christmas wishes to Santa asking for apples oranges nuts and candy plus train fire truck fast ball fire crackers and fruits. The note blends childlike requests with playful holiday cheer.
A Christmas note from Billy Cox asks Santa for a cowboy suit shoes oranges nuts and candy for himself friends and grandma with a polite plea not to forget anyone.
A five year old girl writes to Santa asking for a doll that opens and shuts its eyes a large ball candy oranges and nuts for Christmas signed Lillian Scott Presented as a child’s holiday request to Santa Claus.
An eight year old asks for aid to obtain useful items for school and play. The note lists rubber boots a running watch a wagon candy oranges and sutS.
A six year old boy named Eddie McCreary writes Santa asking for a Lone Ranger outfit and to remember his dad, mother, and his little playmates. The note reflects childlike holiday wishes and family affection.
The note presents two schoolchildren requests to Santa. Jerry Jones asks for a tricycle blackboard and paper doll book along with oranges nuts and tangerines. Edward Chappell asks for a coaster wagon a tractor candy and nuts for his first year in school.
A polite 9 year old writes asking Santa for a wagon a box of firecrackers and a capbuster as part of his holiday wishes. He notes regular school attendance and good behavior.
A handwritten note includes a boy named Roy Smith asking Santa for a football a knife a watch a gun candy oranges nuts and more. A second line has Robert Thomas asking for various gifts for himself and his parents including marbles candy and other items.
A seven year old girl in the first grade at Pranklin school writes to Santa. She asks for a doll a sweater and a hood and asks for candy nuts and fruit. The letter is signed Edna Mae Bond.
A six year old girl writes to Santa requesting a toy piano a new doll candy oranges apples and nuts for herself and her two year old sister Ruth.
A brief note asks Santa for a doli and a broom along with candy and fruit, signed by Lossie Bell Chandler.
George Lee Chandler mentions a doll a broom candy and fruits in a childlike list. Robert McCraw Jr notes a six wheel tractor a blackboard a watch and a chair top plus oranges tangerines grapes and assorted nuts.
A collection of holiday requests from young readers including Buddy Sutphin asking for a fiddle tractor truck shovel and a rideable little car Barbara Haymore requesting a large doll a Shirley Temple book sewing set candy nuts and oranges Gienna Jean Smith seeking a bathrobe bedroom slippers and nuts and oranges and Brazil nuts.
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