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Newspaper
Wellington Leader
Location
Wellington, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1938
Page
9
A collection of young Texas children’s requests to Santa for Christmas gifts. The letters mention a variety of toys and items including a football helmet, toy cannon, microscopes, shooting gallery, darts, BB guns, wood burner, dolls, dishes, train, tractor, and candy, nuts, and fruits, with familial references to parents and siblings.
A five year old writes to Santa asking for a chevele a stock farm and a box of Crayolas. He hopes not to be asking too much and wishes for candy nuts and fruits while asking Santa to remember other boys and girls.
Southern California looks to edge Duke in the Rose Bowl at Pasadena as Notre Dame, Oregon State, Ohio State, Washington State, Stanford, Oregon, California, and U C L A fall to give the Trojans a strong claim. Duke, undefeated and unscored upon, faces a tough test from Wallace Wade's squad and captain Dan Hill as the bowl season opens.
The piece notes a strong Texas Tech squad entering the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, seeking to beat a top West Coast St Marys side known as one of the finest. It also mentions Notre Dame and Carnegie Tech near misses and teases Tennessee vs Oklahoma as a close Miami bowl clash.
One hundred nine members pledged to support the 1939 church budget, totaling 47.40 dollars weekly of a 90 dollar budget. Sunday December 18 was set for contributions to the Methodist Orphanage in Waco Texas. Rev Kirby reports rising attendance and greater interest in Sunday School and services. Helen Hayes operates a shooting gallery whose targets are photographs of famous dramatic critics.
Holley Attaway demonstrates fence placement that converts field space into a grassy passage from barn to pasture, increasing cattle grazing efficiency. The article notes eight bales of cotton per farm in the county, dairy sales, and surplus livestock, urging fencing improvements when crop operations slow, with emphasis on topography, gate placement, and centralizing enclosures near the homestead.
Irene Brown, 14, of Aledo Illinois exhibited the grand champion steer at the International Livestock Exposition in Chicago, bringing in 3875 dollars at auction. The piece discusses time lost by gate openings and travel between home and fields, urging safer self acting latch solutions and fewer gate delays.
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