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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1936
Page
5
A garbled reader transcription lists numerous children and adults asking Santa for toys, candy, and warm goods. Names appear with places such as Middletown and Proterick and include requests for tricycles, dolls, trains, sugar snacks, and clothing.
A scanned page collects holiday requests from numerous children in Jefferson area towns. Letters to Santa ask for dolls, toy trains, bicycles, teddy bears, sleds, candy, oranges, and practical items like clothing, a washer, piano, and a trumped up mix of personal gifts. Names include Betty Lockard, Shirley Temple, Ruth Stull, Katherine Tang, Annabella Long, and many others from Frederick, Libertytown, Woodsboro, and Jefferson.
A collection of handwritten pleas to Santa from Frederick youths includes requests for a cowboy suit a pen knife a chu chu train a picture Dunks a bowl truck and a trimmed Christmas tree. Names Pete Mantz and Betty Irene Palmer appear among the fragments with mentions of kindergarten and Du Joney Avenue.
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