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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1936
Page
5
A Patoka Illinois Christmas note from 1936 lists classic child wish items including a wagon bicycle Orphan Annie book color book ball and candy plus a log cabin doll cradle roller skates and a kitchen set. The letter requests a log cabin doll cradle and other toys and ends with the line the front door will be unlocked and signed Dorothy Delay.
Lorene Walker writes a Christmas wish list asking for a baby doll, doll buggy, a ring, wrist watch, candy, oranges, nuts, a color book and crayons, and includes requests for her brothers and sisters.
A six year old girl asks for a big Shirley Temple doll a bicycle a doll bed a color book a wrist watch a new jam oranges and peanuts. She says to leave the toys in the front room and signs as Elizabeth Sue Wireman.
A first grade student, Rachel Adams, asks Santa for a Shirley Temple doll, a doll cradle and buggy, a dishes set, table and chairs, an electric iron like Margie, and candy for her mother plus socks for her father. She mentions a front room Christmas tree and wishes for a Merry Christmas.
A neighborly note from Deneen Walker requests a snow suit for Christmas and a ball, gloves, a blue small car, a red truck, roller skates, a streamlined train, candy, oranges, and nuts. The friendly gift list closes with warm regards.
A child lists gifts including an electric train overalls Popeye books a color book crayons an electric airplane a drum and sticks candy oranges and nuts. He asks for a big box of candy for mother and a necktie for daddy and signs Merry Christmas Billy Dean Good.
A second grader lists Christmas wishes including a BB gun four cars a truck a sled and a Christmas tree for himself and mentions his little brothers Jackie and Paul Wesley. Jackie asks for a milk truck a car a tractor and a gun while Paul Wesley wants a wagon and blocks. The family desires candy oranges and nuts.
A second grade child named Mary Helen Wickersham in Patoka Illinois lists a long holiday wish including a big doll with cradle buggy bed table and chairs sets of dishes and gifts for siblings. She also requests a toy gun and a small wagon for Junior.
In a cheerful second grade note Bobby Gene Diveley asks Santa for a toy Victrola a lift top desk with a chair a set of farm animals a marble game a child sized typewriter and a cash register He also hopes for candy oranges and mixed nuts from his Santa list.
Mary Elizabeth Wadkins lists items for a doll and household setup including a big doll coat cap and shoes, trunk doll buggy stove table chairs knives forks and spoons. She asks for a train ball doll candy oranges and nuts for all.
Frances Elifritz writes of desired gifts for Christmas including a table and chains a doll house a toy Santa Claus a set of dishes a ring a Mickey Mouse wrist watch candy oranges and nuts. Her brother Jimmy age three requests a toy shotgun a milk truck a tractor and plow. The note mentions bananas apples and an unlocked back door with a Christmas tree in the front room.
A second grade student writes to Santa listing wishes for a big doll, books, cutouts, a new coat and hat, candy, oranges and nuts. She states she has been good and earned good grades at school. She asks Santa not to forget her.
A Christmas note from Helen Nichols of Patoka Illinois asks Santa for a doll cradle a big doll roller skates a wrist watch a toy piano a blackboard and chair plus oranges candy and nuts She signs dear Santa and goodbye with friend to Santa.
Dorothy June Wickersham in Patoka Illinois writes a first grade Christmas note listing dolls a doll bed a doll livery a Mickey Mouse wrist watch roller skates candy oranges and nuts and bids Santa farewell with good wishes for Christmas.
A reader lists many items including a sled an electric train a car an airplane a ball a knife candy oranges and nuto and states they go to school and have been a good boy.
A child named Wendell Wynn requests toys including a saxophone, movie machine, farm set, electric train, four cars, and books plus an airport. Donald Lee Ellis asks for oranges, peanuts, candy, a doll set, and a doll bed. Gladys, Wayne, and Fern Mays list gifts such as a doll, wagon, blocks, and dishes.
A miscellaneous list seeks items including a firearm, a baseball bat, a ball, a toy truck and car, storybooks, roller skates, candy, and oranges. The prompt supplies no context or sourcing data.
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