Santa Letters From Children Describe Christmas Wants
A compilation of handwritten notes from children detailing Christmas wishes. Requests include dolls, toy trucks, a tricycle, a pony with saddle, guns, candy, nuts, fruit, dress items, books, skates, and various toy firearms. Names and places appear in several letters, with a warm, hopeful tone.
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Santa Claus
Jeanne
Santa
Rosemary
Charlie
Frank
Douglas Poteet
Christmas Dream of Peace and Good Will
The text recalls the Magi's homage to an infant and a prophecy of peace that endures through years of conflict. It speaks of new hope, warm shelter, and the return of kindly acts as stockings hang and fires glow, echoing the wish for peace on earth and good will toward men.
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Beny
Judea
Earliest blue laws tied to New Haven code
The phrase blue laws attaches to a 1640 New Haven code. A 1781 list of 45 laws in Peters History of Connecticut drew mainly from New England codes and did not reflect Connecticut’s own law.
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New Haven
Connecticut
S. A. Peters
New England
Zzyzo in Manhattan Directory Turns Out Quartet
In New York the last listed name Zzyzo in the Manhattan telephone directory is not a single person but four young advertising executives sharing an apartment. They chose the name to speed friends searching for their numbers.
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New York
Zzyzo
New Manhattan
Sheriff’s Sale in Collingsworth County Texas Notice
The sheriff announces a levy on real estate in Collingsworth County as part of a judgment in Ellis Baggett versus A J Baggett. The property includes all of the north half and east 120 acres of the south half of Section 11, Block 15, H and G N R Co Surveys. Property is in the name of A J Baggett individually.
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Collingsworth
District Court
W. H. Goforth
Alice Baggett
E. L. Baggett
Ellis Baggett
A. J. Baggett
C. E. McKinney
Collingsworth County
Texas
Sale of Real Estate of A J Baggett in Wellington Texas
On the third Tuesday in January 1937 between 10 a m and 4 p m at the Courthouse door Wellington in Collingsworth County Texas I will sell as the property of A J Baggett also known as Alice Baggett and survivor in community of the estate of herself and deceased husband under a levy and order of sale. Notice is published once weekly for three consecutive weeks in the Wellington Leader. Witness my hand December 8 1936. G E McKinney Sheriff Collingsworth County Texas.
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Court House
Collingsworth
Wellington
Texas
Levy
A.J. Baggett
Alice Baggett
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Marie Ann Grogan
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Eula Ruth Howell
Lone Mound School
Wanda Mask
Love
Betty Jean Martindale
Wanda
Martindale
Betty Louise McDonald
Nolan Poteet
Ben Hurst, Mer
State OF
Merry Christmas
Toggery
Roy M. Horn
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Accumu
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