Letters to Santa Describe Christmas Wish List
Five year old Vicki Brandhorst and Karen Schwake send Santa brief notes listing toys they want including Easy Bake Oven Skipper sets and Barbie kitchen. Betty and others add personal greetings and thanks. The letters mention dolls, playsets, and makeup requests.
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Ricky
Barbie
Suzy
Vicki Brandhorst
Santa
Troll
House
Heidi
Skipper
Skooter
Vanity
Under The Christmas Tree Cake Delights in Bakeable Leaf Form
The Hobart Manufacturing Company unveils a leaf shaped cake recipe titled Under The Christmas Tree Cake designed for holiday gifting. The printed directions provide exact ingredients and steps using a KitchenAid mixer to create two 9 by 5 inch by 3 inch leaf pans baked at 275 F for about 1 1 2 hours, yielding two cakes totaling about 24 pounds each.
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Hobart Manufacturing
Hobart Manufacturing Company
Christmas Wish List From Young Shoppers
A child named Rodney L. Bergmann asks for a race car set as his main gift. Lynette Quass writes she hopes for a medical kit, musical toy, jewelry and underwear items. Rodney also wants a hockey stick camera and power tool shop plus a tape recorder. Rene desires a doll bed and roller skates.
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Santa
Lynette Quass
Rene
Noahs Ark Toy Popular in Nineteenth Century Christmas
The article recalls how a Noahs Ark toy once filled holiday scenes with a miniature ark and paired animal figures. It notes the shift from sparse Christmas gifts to today’s vast toy assortment and explains the ark’s decline from common use in homes.
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Noah
Christmas Gift List From Mary and Susan
Mary requests a Mary makeup set an Easy Bake Oven and a phone that comes to you. Helen asks for a doll a clock and a record player.
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Santa
Helen
Susan
Newspaper curiosity spans arts science and puzzles
Readers seek practical arts and abstract science news as well as entertainment from puzzles and comics across the newspaper.
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Dear Santa
Betty
Love, Karen Schwake
Rodney L. Bergmann
By Anna Mang
Chet
State Farm
Duane Holm
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
Bloomington
Illinois
American Savings Bank
Tripoli
Iowa
Maxfield Mutual
Insurance Association
Denver
Bergmann
Hatchery
NORGE
Laundry
Mr. and
Mrs. LeLand Bergmann Dennis Lionel
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