Letters to Dear Old Santa
A collection of children's Christmas requests from many youngsters. Names and addresses appear beside each plea, listing dolls, toys, trains, sleds, puzzles, and clothing desires. Some entries mention family members and a few note illnesses or bereavement while varied locations and ages are recorded.
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Santa
Virginia Mae
Bobby
Billy
Virginia Mae Schmittgen
Bobby van Schmittgen
Billy Schmittgen
Nevada Prospectors Drawn to Old Rabbit Hole District
Nevada gold seekers converge on the Humboldt range near Lovelock after reports of a rich strike by Charles Scossi and his brother James. The brothers hauled 12 sacks of ore worth $5 per pound and three sacks of “picture rock” said to assay $46,276 per ton, while others wait for developments.
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Nevada
Old Rabbit Hole
Humboldt Mountain
Lovelock
Nev
Charles Scossi
James
Scossis
Picture Rock
Beesemyer and Moore Claim 1927 Partnership Details
Earl N. Moore, an oil man from a federal penitentiary, says he and Gilbert H. Beesemyer operated as a half and half partnership during 1927. Beesemyer supplied funds and acquired one dry well that year. Beesemyer pleads not guilty and faces trial in January.
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Earl N. Moore
Federal
Gilbert H. Beesemyer
Hollywood
Cal
Beesemyer
Moore
Cricket swarming falls in fall says Texas entomologist
ITS JUST COURTING TIME AUSTIN Texas Spring is not the season of love for crickets but fall, J M Del Curto entomologist of the Texas State Department of Agriculture says this explaining the fall swarming of crickets by fire in New York will b e aired and rores pate christened Steab- Worm bait catches 10 000 Hastings Sussex Eng More than 10 000 fish were caught in one day by women participating in an anglers' festival Worms were used
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Austin
Tex
J. M. del Curto
Texas State Department of Agriculture
New York
Hastings
Sussex
Eng
Rechristen Gutted Liner Muenchen Berlin
The North German Lloyd liner Muenchen was gutted in Berlin after a destructive blaze. The shipyard fire prompted emergency crews to evacuate holds and assess structural damage to the vessel.
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Berlin
Lloyd’s Liner
Muenchen
Hopkins fortune appoints administratrix in vast California estate
Mrs. Lela Hopkins Martin of San Francisco seeks to act as administratrix of the $50,000,000 Hopkins estate claiming relation as great grandniece to the late California pioneer Mark Hopkins The petition asserts the fortune was never administered or distributed Born with two teeth Oregon City Gladys Robinson entered the world last week with two perfect teeth.
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Mark Hopkins
California
Lela Hopkins Martin
San Francisco
Hopkins
Oregon City
Gladys Robinson
Death by laughing gas during ear operation shocks coroner
In London a coroner calls Olive Hope Noble’s death a million to one chance as she died from nitrous oxide poisoning during an ear operation. In Liverpool a vat accident caused four thousand gallons of beer to be poured into the River Mersey after a workman fell.
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London
Olive Hope Noble
Mersey
Also Mentioned on This Page
Betty Kipe
Tenth St
Santa Claus
Tam
Carol Dorothy Hull
Dad
Robert Stoker
Huron &T
Elwin
Papa
Oliver Shay
Harrison St
Howard
Walter
Wanda
Wayne
Frank Ct
Cleveland Street
Mamma Goldie
Mamma
Emma Owen
Cleveland St
June Phylis Rankin
Donnie
Robert Harrington
Columbia Sta
Ohio
Richard Wainwright
Courtland St
Betty Jayne
Lefty
Elayne Bell
Second St
Santa Tam
James and
Edward Wyszynski
Prospect St
THE
Elyria Hardware CO
Hughes’ Provision Company
Seasons Greetings
Porsch Lumbers& Coal Company
Lodi Street
Pleelual
Passhielierelerd
Rothgery Motor Sales
Hudson
Essex
Chevrolet
Studebaker
Grafton
Murphy Bros
Broad Street
Atlantic
A. B. Randall
Leviathan
United States Lines
George Fried
George Washington
Randall
Liverpool
Foust
LEE Whitney CO
A.minnich & Sons
Coal and Builder’s Supplies
West St
LaSalle
Glen Rogers Motor, Inc
Broad St
Merre
J.R
Srel
J.r.dall Ford Dealer
Selyria, Ohio
Merry Christmas
Pfau Motor Co
East Bridge
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