Christmas wishes from Winters children in 1936
Santa letters from Betha Belitz Mary Elizabeth Gerhart Calvin Case Jr and Ferrel Dean Stoecker request gifts including a red coat silk dress blackboard candy a doll and a toy cleaning set. The notes show December 11 12 1936 from Winters Texas delivered to Santa Claus.
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Winters
Texas
Santa Claus
Betha Belitz
Mary Elizabeth Gerhart
Calvin Case, JR
Ferrel Dean Stoecker
Children’s Santa requests from 1936 letters
A batch of child handwritten wishes to Santa lists year old boys and girls asking for skates trains watches and toys. Names include Lavon Clark Frances Hobbs Thelda Clark Imogene Case Laverne Brooks along with addresses and dates.
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Santa
Mickie Mouse
Onus Lavon Clark
Childrens Christmas Wish List Excerpt
Rex Tatum and Francis Gottschalk present notes from two children: a seven year old seeking a cowboy suit a story book and other items. an eight year old asking for an aluminum cookery set a brother for Martin a small blackboard Otto a toy car and a request to visit poorer children.
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Santa Claus
Rex Tatum
Santa
Martin
Otto
Francis Gottschalk
Letters to Santa from Children Request Christmas Gifts
A 1936-1936 collection of children’s letters to Santa outlines Christmas wishes. Delbert Drury asks for a tricycle and a lamp for himself and a green light for his baby sister, while Wilma Dorsettt Grady Dorsettt and Patsy Bailey request dolls blocks and travel gifts.
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Santa Claus
Santa
Delbert D. Drury
Dear Santa Letters From Winters Texas 1936
Two Christmas requests from 1936 letters printed in Winters Texas. Virginia Ashley asks for blue houseshoes size thirteen modeling clay akates baking set doll and sister Ruby Nell wants a tricycle doll dishes house shoes and rubber bricks. Norma Sue Fuller asks for boots a doll a lunch pail candy and fruit for poor children.
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Santa
Ruby Nell
Virginia JO
Ruby Nell Ashley
Boy’s Christmas Wish Letter To Santa 1936
A five year old boy Melvin Ray Williams writes to Santa on December 4 1936 pledging to be good through Christmas and requesting a big truck a train building blocks for himself and a doll rocking chair fruit candy nuts and fireworks for Adalene, hoping all children receive gifts.
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Santa
Adalene
Melvin Ray Williams
Dear Santa Pleads for Toys from Winters Child
December 15 1938 letter from Mndra Louise Williams Route 4 Winters Texas asks Santa for a Shirley Temple doll a fitted doll clothes bag a Mickey Mouse wrist watch an ironing board and iron a red wagon and assorted nuts candy and fruit for herself and baby sister Maxine plus string pull toys and blocks pasted in a family notice style.
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Winters
Texas
Santa Claus
Mndra Louise Williams
P. S
Maxine
Christmas Toys Requested by Young Readers
A three year old girl asks for a tiny ironing board iron a negro doll a tub rub board clothes line cedar chest red book and a cedar chest while a seven year old asks for a doll house wooden furniture quintuplet dolls and hopes for fruit and candy for her siblings promising to be good next year both signed Bettye Jo Lewis and Virginia Lee Colburn.
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Bettye JO Lewis
Santa
Virginia Lee Colburn
Roosevelt visits South America prompts North American interest
President Roosevelt's South American tour shifts attention to the Western Hemisphere's southern half. The piece notes the limited focus on South America in schooling and underscores Brazil's vast size compared to the United States, highlighting the region's proximity and importance.
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Roosevelt
South America
North America
Europe
Brazil
United States of America
The Graveyard of Untried Ideas in Science and Statecraft
A scientist laments failure records and urges a public archive of dead ends to spare future researchers. The piece argues that business and politics repeat past cycles, citing historical measures and missed lessons, urging lawmakers to study the Congressional Library and adopt a permanent committee on Things That Sound Good but Won’t Work. It also reflects on writing as a relentless, solitary craft.
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Diocletian
France
England
South Sea Company
Congressional Library
Congress
Irving Cobb
South America’s vast lands and future ties with North America
The article notes Argentina’s large size and low population, compares it to Brazil and the United States, and argues South America’s wealth and climate merit exploration and trade. It suggests teaching about Argentina and Portuguese in schools and envisions a future close alliance between North and South America.
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Argentine
Brazil
United States
Mississippi
South America
North
King Edward VIII and British constitutional clash debated
The piece argues Americans sympathize with King Edward VIII over Prime Minister Baldwin as the king’s private life is seen as his own. It views Parliament and Cabinet as the real government and notes the Lords lack of power in the constitutional framework.
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Edward VIII
England
Stanley Baldwin
Prince of Wales
House of Commons
House of Lords
Lloyd George
Lords
James II abdication and constitutional crises in Britain
The article traces English constitutional conflicts from James II's abdication style to George III's stance with America and Edward VIII's marriage crisis. It notes how kings may resign if Parliament insists and cites abdication as a historical remedy, with the Simpson marriage controversy as a modern crisis. The piece links monarchy, cabinet and public sentiment across centuries.
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James Nm
England
James II
Thames
Continent
America
George III
Edward VIII
Simpson
Stamp pads and rubber stamps offered by Enterprise
A fragment notes a company advertising stamp pads and rubber stamps in red ink at The Enterprise. The readable text is incomplete but implies a local business listing or ad.
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Vidle
the Enterprise
Fragmentary note on royal attitudes and family dynamics
The fragment mentions divorcees and a famous sonnel wife, hinting at a liberal atmosphere surrounding a king and his upbringing. It suggests shifts in attitude toward marriage and gender roles within a royal context.
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Agram
Shirley
Thelda Clark
Leon
Imogene Case
Mr. J. R. Harris
Pumphrey
Laverne Brooks
Rine
Wilma Dorsett
Grandpa
Grady Dorsett
Route 4
ABC
Vernon
Patsy Louise
Billy Max
Patsy Bailey
Talpa
Norma Sue Fuller
Emerson
Cornwall
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Chiropractor
Jordan Bidg
Lady Atten
Smith & Smith
Attorneys-at-Law
Winters State. Bank
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