Thelma Forbes Pleads for Tea Set for Favorite Teacher
A nostalgic note from Macclesfield shows Thelma Forbes expressing affection for a teacher, asking for a tea set a doll and confectionaries, and inviting the teacher to visit for a meal.
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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1924
Page
2
Fill ’Em Up Santa Dear Santa
A child named Henry Mobley from Wilson writes a Christmas wish list. He asks Santa to bring a little boy, a small horse and cart, and a filled stocking. He mentions his little brother Ernest Washington and the request to fill stockings. He gives Nashetteet as his location.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Lihis
Ernest Washington
Nashetteet
Santa Remembers It Well My Dearest
A ten year old writes from a newspaper office recalling a letter sent last year to Buck Horn school and asks if it is remembered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa
Sannta
Buck Horn School
Dear Santa Claus Requests Typewriter and Trailer
A child writes to Santa asking for a typewriter and a trailer for themselves and for someone named Robert, also requesting tire and crackers and mentioning Charlie Raines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Claus
Robert
Dorothy Dean Letter Seeks Toys from Santa Claus
An eleven year old girl in Elm City North Carolina writes Santa Claus asking for a doll carriage a tea set a big doll and many treats including nuts fruit and candy She asks for her mother and father to be remembered in the wishes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean Santa Claus
Porotily
Coley Mary Vaugiin
Elm City
N.C
Five year old seeks toys and candy near Lucama NC
A note from a five year old named Lessie Hawley in Lucama North Carolina requests candy oranges apples and a car plus a monkey climbing a string. The child expresses a wish for many toys and mentions residence in Lucama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Claus
Lucama
Dear Santa Claus Letters From Young North Carolina Readers
A pair of child letters expresses Christmas wishes. Helen Burns Hoigl of Middlesex asks for a doll piano story book desk and chair and notes she is seven. Jaock Stancil of Spring Hope says he wants an overcoat oranges apples and candy and mentions his ninth grade report card.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sainta Claus
Santa Claus
Jaock Stancil
Nic
Margaret
Childrens Christmas Wishlist From Virginia and Daisy
In Virginia McCarter of Pear, Route 4 and Daisy Vaughan of Elm City request items for Santa Claus. Virginia asks for a sweet doll, a desk, a doll carriage, a bed, sparklers, candy, and fruit for family members. Daisy seeks a rubber ball a doll carriage sparklers and fruit plus candy.
Christmas Wish List From Young Shoppers
A child named Annie McCarter from Wilson North Carolina asks Santa for sparklers a desk a story book bedroom slippers apples oranges a doll carriage skates and a rubber ball for her parents. Bertha Vaughn Roy Bruce and another child write brief notes requesting clothes candy fruit and other gifts suitable for a seven year old with a second grade address on West Nash Road.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Claus
Chritmas
Miss
Wilson
Annie McCarter Wilson
N. C
Santa
West Nash Road
Bruce Bass
Dear Santa Clasi Wishes Stove and Fruit for Farm Help
A child named Esther Spencer from Elm City writes a letter to Santa asking for a small stove to learn cooking and plenty of fruit. She mentions living on a farm and helping her mother and signs the note with her name and location.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Clasi
Esther
Spencer Elm City
Ten Year Old Pleads For Gifts From Teacher Miss Holt
A third grader asks his teacher Miss Holt for a bicycle a twenty two rifle grapes candy fruit and fire crackers for his brothers. The plea reads like a child's wish list reflecting a playful letter to a teacher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Claus
Miss Holt
Limberzine Requests and School Mention
A brief note requests a Lincoln Limber zine and mentions candy apples oranges. The writer names a school teacher Jerry Louis Hester and identifies as a four year old boy. Signed by Frank Bass Wilson Route 6.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Claus
Jerry Louis Hester
Missing Child Plea From Edgar Morris to Evans Dale School
A boy named Edgar Morris asks for a train and a long curled doll to ride in a train. He says he lives on Route 6 and is headed to Evansdale School. He promises thanks for the items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Claus
Evansdale School
Route 6
Edgar Morris
Tiny Tot Seeks Christmas Gifts and Family Help
A three month old baby, Grace Godla Renfrow, asks for a ring a toilet set and a Mam Mam talking doll for her first Christmas. The note requests care from Mother and Dad and mentions Buck Horn area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa
Buck Horn
Mother
Daddy
Norfolk Southern Child Seeks Toys and Boots in Local Request
A child from Kenly North Carolina writes for four tricycles a toy train with a track a Ford car and four pairs of boots. The note is signed Henrietta Clark Barnes and addresses Buck Horn near Norfolk Southern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk-Southern
Santa Claus
Buck Horn
Henrietta Clark Barnes Kenly
Child Writes Wishful Letter for Bicycle and Treats
A child expresses desire for a bicycle along with candy and oranges. The letter notes a long time wish for a bike and asks Santa Claus to bring it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Claus
Charles Jacobs Sends Chipper List of Toy Requests
A message from Charles Jacobs asks for a playful assortment including candy apples oranges firecrackers a small wagon a train on a track a train bell nuts a drum and a stopper. He quips about tiredness from making toys for otter folks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Claus
We Wonder Too Dear Santa Claus Delivers Christmas Wishes
A reader themed plea expresses wonder about Santa Claus during cold days and asks for sparklers oranges apples and tangerines. The note imagines Santa preparing toys and visiting for Christmas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Claus
I Am Six and Wish for Toys from Miss Horbes
A six year old in Lucama writes to his teacher Miss Horbes expressing love and pride for earning ten stars. He asks for a tricycle cap pistol apples nuts and many other treats before good night, signing Donald Barnes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Claus
Miss Horbes
Donald Barnes
Child’s Request for Cap Pistol Toys and Food Items
A child asks for a cap pistol and a few boxes of caps, plus oranges apples nuts and raisins. The message includes a request to not leave his little brother Joseph out and mentions a toy horse for him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Claus
Mildred Thomas
Joseph
Letter From Lucile to Santa
A child writes to Santa Claus asking for gifts including a doll a cook stove a dress skates a tea set fruit and nuts signing Lucile Stallings in a holiday letter reflection of childhood wish lists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa
Lucile Stallings
Coastguard finds cannons and bell from old shipwreck
The cutter crew reported two five foot brass cannons and a ship's bell from a British warship wrecked on the island. The bell is used to summon worshippers at a dilapidated chapel. There are two volcanoes on the island.
Woman Heroine Survives 53 Hours Adrift After Schooner Wreck
Miss Katherine Woodworth an 18 year old from Malden Mass was aboard the Sisan B when it wrecked off the Virginia Capes. She and the crew survived 53 hours in an open boat. She kept up spirits with brave singing and encouragement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katherine Woodworth
L. B. Bishop
Malden
Mass
Sisan
Virginia Capes
Saintly Santa Sends Child Wish List Request
A child asks for a foot wall a copy pistol three boxes of caps four pairs of gloves some tablets and pencils and all kinds of fruit nuts and candy in his sack. The message expresses a simple Christmas gift list and requests various items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Claus
Treasure Hunters Seek Spanish Gold Hidden 100 Years Ago
Two chests of Spanish gold said to be hidden a century ago in a cave high in the typhoon swept hills of Claro Babuyan one. Manila residents plan expeditions to claim the treasure credited to an old woman who hid it for protection from earthquakes and eruptions on the island.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claro Babuyan
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Lessie Hawley ,Lucama
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Virginia McCarter Wilson
Tam
Daisy Vaugiin
N. Cc
Bertha Vaughn
Elm City, N.C
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Joe
Frank Bass Wilson
Grace Godla Renfrow
Charles Jacobs
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Jose
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Strickland
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