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Newspaper
The Daily Telegram
Location
Clarksburg, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1906
Page
2
A collage of handwritten holiday pleas from young Maryland and West Virginia children requesting toys, candy, dolls, trains, drums, and other gifts for Christmas. The letters express gratitude and family notes, with several youngsters naming Santa by name and offering personal details like ages and hometowns.
Fragmentary text mixes a claim over a meteorite with a government seizure, a hotel limit on valuables after a divorce, and a cholera belt anecdote among Anglo Indians. It also parodies Kipling and cites garbled historic snippets, ads, and brief items from a late nineteenth or early twentieth century newspaper page.
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