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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1903
Page
3
A compiled letter set from Troy Illinois children dated December 1903 to Santa Claus. Kids request dolls, writing desks, sleds, toy trains, guns, doll buggies, rocking chairs, clothes, candy, oranges, nuts, and various small gifts. Many notes include age, home by depot, schools, and family lines.
A collection of Santa letters from 1903 requests by Mary Jacheski Maggie Dobbs Bertha Heddergott Leslie Troy Orrene Bain Jean Sefton Lester Hohl Willie McCormick Charles Wandling and others. Items include dolls doll buggies slate blackboards trains sleds toy guns chairs tables trees candy nuts oranges and various personal gifts. Letters dated December 12 to December 25 1903 show young children's holiday wishes from St Louis and Troy Illinois areas.
A collection of youthful Santa Claus letters from Troy Illinois children dated December 1902 and December 1903. The notes request toys dolls sleds trundle beds trunks dolls buggies writing desks and dishes, along with candies oranges and nuts, reflecting eager Christmas wishes from young girls and boys. Names include Maudie Hazel Porter Sylvinia Meiners Mary Droy Fannie Boston Dewey Smith Katie Tarro Norma Jarvis Alice Scully Emma Smith Walter Meiners Earl Foster Louis Hultz and others.
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