Letters to Santa Claus Gifts Requested by Children
A collection of handwritten wishes from children for Christmas requests. Loran Ray Francis asks for a tricycle and tractor with lights plus snow suits candy and nuts. Maurice Francis requests a Shirley Temple doll buggy scooter and fruit candy nuts and more for other kids. Jo Anna Thomas seeks a doll doll buggy warm pajamas and slippers. Jimmie Scott asks for a bicycle air gun toy machine gun football candy nuts fruits and a bugle. Jeynell Deger requests a doll that drinks and sleeps a raincoat and candy fruit and nuts for herself and cousins.
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Santa Claus
Loran Ray Francis
Dalhart
Santa
Maurice Francis
Tam
Jo Anna Thomas
Jimmie Scott
Jeynell Deger
Will and
Wessie
Curtis Ray Hopper
Diving suit aid enables depth of two hundred forty feet
A diver, Max E Noll of Miheanu kee Wisconsin, prepares to wear a new metal helmet type diving suit and descends 240 feet in Lake Michigan. The gear carries oxygen and helium and recalls devices used in wartime salvage attempts on the Lusitania.
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Max E. Noll
Miheanukee
Wis
Lake Michigan
Lusitania
Christmas Wish List From Texas Schoolchildren
A collection of handwritten wishes from Texas youngsters. Names include Oneta M. Graves Glenn Ketchum Cecil Gooch J. D. Shanks Ronnie and Virginia Prince. Requests span toys candy apples oranges nuts a dump truck a tool set house shoes and a car with affectionate notes to family and friends.
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Santa Claus
Glenn Ketchum
Loco
Texas
Mother
Virginia Prince
Christmas Wishlist From a Little Boy and a Girl
A child writes to Santa promising good behavior through winter. Four year old Tommy Warren Fason asks for a red wagon a pop gun and candy while noting a lazy gentle tom cat and a desire to avoid toy dogs. Norman Nix Newton asks for a tractor wagon football and a gun and asks Betty receive a gift as well.
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Santa
Jimmie Dan Prince
Santa Claus
Betty
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Mary Nell Chandler
Allen Hugh Thompson
Herman
Bertha Bell
Vernon C
Neva Joy Willard
Juanita Joyce
Walter Dee
Altha Mae
Daddy
Dorothy Marie
Abbie McBoyett
Pioneer Hardware
Air Rifles
Aberdeen
Beth Kayser
Oneta M. Graves
J. B. Sasser
J. D. Shanks
Ronnie
Cecil Gooch
Kid
Wine
Oxford
Tommy Warren Fason
Norman Nix Newton
Allis-Chalmers
Chrysler
Stevenson Implement Co
Iece
Willard
Wilard
Bollet
Pruden Drug CO
Jorsonville
Malone Drug Store
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