Letters to Santa Claus from Avoca and surrounding towns
A series of Christmas gift requests dated December 1940 from Texas children. Glyndale Hart asks for two guns and two holsters, a bicycle with extras, and ten wing airplanes. Mary Lou Watts requests a watch, ring, fruit, nuts, and candy. Lowell Lynn White asks for Tinker Toys, a watch, a Caterpillar toy, and a knife. Norma Fay Griffith seeks a skirt, sweater, boots, house shoes, and a robe. other children mention air guns, wagons, toy cars, and color sets.
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Avoca
Tex
Santa Claus
Vernon
Glyndale Hart
Mary Lou Watts
Stamford
Santa
Miss Reece
Lowell Lynn White
Norma Fay Griffith
Janie Weeks
Nettie V. Watts
Christmas Wishes From Two Young Siblings
A letter from Marvin Barney Ford Jr seeking a B B gun a small car and a tiny truck for his six year old brother Von Rupert Ford. Wanda Fay Cox requests a Tot bottle doll a paper doll house mittens and a Rough Rider Cowboy suit along with an air gun and a car for her nine year old self. Both children ask for candy nuts and fruit and include requests for their mother and a caregiver as well.
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von Rupert Ford
Marvin Barney Ford, Jr
Avoca
Tex
Santa
Wanda Fay Cox
Dear Santa Claus Letter From Betty Marie Green
A ten year old girl with brown eyes and hair writes to Santa asking for a doll candy nuts fruit and a chest for Christmas. She notes her sister also wants the same and asks not to be disappointed and to remember other children.
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Avoca
Tex
Santa Claus
Betty Marie Green
Dorothy Crawford
Christmas Wish List From Texas Children in 1940
A compilation of Santa letters from Texas kids describing desired gifts such as bicycles, Red Ryder rifles, dresses, toys, candy, fruit, nuts, and warm clothing. Children include Janie Weeks of Avoca, Mary Ruth Culwell of Weatherford, Leon Stevenson, Clyde Singleton, Dorothy Jean Gordon, Dorothy Crawford, and Virginia Muehlstein, detailing age, grade, and hometown.
Children’s Christmas Letters to Santa From Avoca Texas
A collection of 1940 Christmas requests fromchildren in Avoca Texas. Letters to Santa ask for items including a watch, a Bee Bee gun, air gun, housecoat, cooking set, purse, and candy. Several children express gratitude and kindness toward the teacher Miss McKnight and wish happiness for others.
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Miss McKnight
Maggie Ruth Whitworth
Avoca
Tex
Santa Claus
Wanda Easterling
Blondie Plays Cupid at Palace Theatre Columbia
Bumsteads headline Christmas and Thursday show in Columbia's Palace Theatre with Blondie Dagwood and Baby Dumpling in a new film based on Chic Young's comic strip. The plot centers on a Fourth of July trip to Aunt Hannah's country ranch that spirals into comic entanglements including elopement plans and a dynamite mishap.
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Bumstead
Bumsteads
Palace Theatre
Columbia
Blondie
Cupid
Dagwood
Baby Dumpling
Daisy
Chic Young
Hannah
America
Oilmen Spent Over 260 Million Drilling Dry Holes in Texas
Texas oilmen spent more than 260 million dollars last year drilling dry holes seeking new oil reserves. The effort underscores ongoing exploration costs and the push to locate productive fields in the state.
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Texas
District of Columbia tops growth among states in 1930s
The 1940 U S census shows the United States at 131 669 275, up 8 894 229 since 1930, 7 2 percent. DC grew 36 2 percent, fastest of states. Florida 29 2 percent, New Mexico 25 6 percent, California 21 7 percent.
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United States
William Lane Austin
Bureau of the Census
Department of Commerce
Census Bureau
District of Columbia
Florida
New Mexico
California
Kansas
Nebraska
North Dakota
Oklahoma
South Dakota
Vermont
Great Plains
Dust Bowl
Canada
Texas
Montana
Delaware
Georgia
Idaho
Kentucky
Maine
Minnesota
Nevada
New Hamonshire
South Carolina
Virginia
New York
Michigan
North Carolina
Tennessee
Pennsylvania
Illinois
Louisiana
Ohio
Pacific Coast
Mountain States
City for Conquest starring Cagney and Sheridan at Grand
Grand Theater brings City for Conquest with James Cagney and Ann Sheridan in a grand city tale adapted from Aben Kandel. The cast includes Frank Craven Donald Crisp Frank McHugh Blanche Yurka George Tobias Jerome Cowan Lee Patrick and more. Anatole Litvak directs with John Wexley adapting the novel and Max Steiner's Song of the City featured.
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Grand Theater
Blanche Yurka
George Tobias
Jerome Cowan
Lee Patrick
Thurston Hall
Joyce Compton
Elia Kazan
John Wexley
Kandel
Anatole Litvak
Max Steiner
Wall Paper and Co Vas Shambureer Lumber Co
A fragmentary item mentions Wall Paper and Co with Shambureer Lumber Co in connection with unspecified business dealings. Details are unclear due to damaged text.
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Wall Paper and Co
Vas
Shambureer Lumber Co
Arms and the Men U S A March of Time film at Grand Theatre
March of Time presents Arms and the Men U S A detailing peacetime conscription under the Selective Service Law. The film tours U S training camps and explains how a five million strong active and reserve army, a large navy, and 30 000 aircraft are built and organized.
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U. S
Time
U.S.A
Grand Theatre
Uncle Sam
Improper Use of Gasoline in Home Takes Death Toll
The Fire Prevention Division reports that gasoline and kerosene mishandling in Texas homes from 1935 to 1939 caused about 50 deaths annually from gasoline and 55 from kerosene. Fire losses averaged $316000 yearly. Gasoline use at home is warned as extremely dangerous due to vapor risk and high explosive power.
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Texas
Warning Against Home Fire Dangers From Explosives and Kerosene
A warning notes dynamite is far safer than gasoline in homes with children and cautions against using kerosene to start fires. It advises using tiny kerosene traces on kindling in a metal container away from flames and never exposing kerosene to a lighted match or coals.
Pontiac Christmas Gift Orders Climb Indicating Prosperity
D A Bathrick, general sales manager of Pontiac Motor Division, cites a surge in orders for cars intended as Christmas gifts. By November 15 dealers reported more Dont deliver until Christmas orders than all of 1939, with Bathrick urging early placement for timely delivery.
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D. A. Bathrick
Pontiac Motor Division
Pontiac
Bathrick
Pontiac 1941 Models Hit Capacity Amid Holiday Demand
The Pontiac plant runs at capacity production and strong sales since the 1941 models began. Convertible sedan coupes lead holiday buying with most cars shipping equipped with eight cylinder dual carbureted engines and high compression heads. Beige is the favored color.
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Pontiac
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Avoca, Tex
Mary Ruth Culwell
Weatherford
Star Rt
Leon Stevenson
Clyde Singleton
Dorothy Jean Gordon
Virginia Muehlstein
Duke
Appliance Co
Buie
Pho
J. R. Dillard
Isaac Gunter, Jr
J. H. Grimes
Merry Christmas
Clark Bros. Feed Store
James Cagney
Ann Sheridan
Strauss Dry Goods Company
Stamford, Texas
U.S. Army
Texas Fire Insurance Department
Monzingo
Meme
Lawdon Chevrolet Co
Aett RR
Pieace
Chevrolet
Dguin Chevrolets
Lawhon Chevrolet Co., Inc
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