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Letters To
Santa Claus

East Chicago. Ind. Dec. IS. 1911.
Dear santa Claus; do not want
much. want hat, china cupboard
and two-pound box OF candy.
RUTH DIXON.
East Chicago Ind. Dec Il, 1911.
Dear santa claus. / want a book
and some bells and nuts. DO not for
get the poor children.
MAGUERITE SELLS.
East Chicago. Ind. Dec. -. 1911
you what l want for Christmas.
want large doll, a Set Of dishes, some
chairs, a table. a goeart and a story
book. ! hope YOU do not forget.
KATIE LECSIK.
East Chicago. Ind. Dec. II, 1911.
necklace and a pretty doll. Please
bring David and me lots Of games. And
bring the poor people some TOO
DAISY YOUNG.
East Chicago. Ind, Dec. ?, 1911
Dear Santa Claus. Please, bring my
candy. Bring my friend a nice box
of blocks and little clown that
bling my father a gold inkweil and
box of candy. Bring my brother a nice
box of candy and a very nice ring. !
want a nice doll with real hair and
real eyelashes and a gold ring and
some candy and nuts
MARY LOIS CLARK.
Hammond Ind. Dee. - 1911.
Dear Santa Claus. My name Is AIDE
please bring me a doll head, a game,
some books, a braekelet Please bring
my brother drum. horn and rock
ing horse. and do not forget the candy
and nuts Yours truly.
ADELAIDE AND +. Fl. FOX.
% Mason street.
Griffith. Ind. Dec l., 1911
Dear Santa Claus: As ! am thirteen
years of age and | attend st. MichaeIs
viii You Riease bring me a new hat,
a new dress nuts, candy, oranges and
apples? | do not want much this time
for | am getting too big. | am in the
sixth grade and l walk three and one
half miles there and back each day. /
GERTRUDE sEBERGER.
Griffith Ind. Dec g. 1911
Dear Santa. 1 am six years old. /
have been a good rs BOY since you saw ,'.
little brother. Earl a teddy bear and
shoohy rocking horse. want a
horse and Christmas tree with nuts
and candy l wish you a Merry Christ
Yours truly.
ROBERT EINSWEILER.
Griffith, Ind. Dec y. 1911
Dear santa Claus | read lin The
TIMES that you were receiving letters
have been a good boy ali wear / am
nine years old | would ike sled
and FOOTBALL, My brother Albert
wants "A hobby horse and a little nuts
and candy. Wishing you a Merry
Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Your little friends.
SAMUEL KOED1 KER.
ALBERT KOEDYKER.
WhitingeInd. Dec. 13. 1911.
Dear santa: ! am boy nine years
old I want you to bring me a train
on the track and some candy and nuts
Don't forget my sister and brother.
Well. this is all for this time.
Your little friend,
HAROLD THOMAS
Cl0 New York avenue
Whiting, Ind. Dec Il. 1911.
Dear Santa Claus: l thought | would
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father and sisters.
Your dear friend.
JOSEPHINE ATHIES-

father and sisters.
JOSEPHINE ATHIES.
$50 Wood avenue.
Hammond Ind. Dec. Il, 1911
Dear Santa Claus: | am tlttie BOY
eight Years Of age and want ant 2 b loe
are some things want more than oth,
ers. They are: violin. as we all
curly gloves to keep my hands warm
this winter couple of story books,
some games, candy and nuts. Dear
Santa Claus. please won't you bring
lots of everything to me and all my
friends, as we all love you more than
tongue can tell Don't forget mamma
and papa and the little orphans.
Your very dear friend.
PAUL STEPP.
rs Wood avenue.
Indiana Harbor. Ind. Dec. IS, 1911.
Dear Santa: ] am "A little girl =
years old and my brother Francis is 3.
My mamma is writing for me- am
good girl and Francis IS a good boy.
and seat and some candy and nuts.
Francis wants one-foot-tn ana
one foot-out wagon (coaster wagon,
forget all other little boys and girls.
HELEN AND FRANCIS RIsHER.
1886 Drummond street.
Crown Point Ind. Dec. Al3. 1911.
Dear Santa Claus ] want box of
tools and sled and q gun and some
candy and some nuts and some oranges,
GEORGE WIcKIINE.
Hammond, Ind. Dec IS. 1911
Dear santa; thought l would
for Christmas. | want nice coat an
aviation cap. a nice white set of furs
and nice big doll. And don't forget
not forget the poor children. From
Your little friend.
MARION NESSEI-
434 West sibley street.
Hammond Ind Dec
Dear Santa Claus: As Christmas is
drawing near thought l would write
would like some A b c blocks. new
suit. shoes and stockings, jumping
Jack and beautiful Christmas tree
You better not come down or chimney
for it is pretty dirty When you come
+ suppose you will be hungry so we
will have some wine and cake on the
table ready for YOU If no one IS up
help yourself TO it; it is for YOU.
Please. Santa Claus. don't forget the
something, too. Don't forget mamma
md papa sister and brother, ! Viii
mas and Happy New Year
From your friend,
WILLIAM DEBOLD.
Hammond. Ind. Dec. Is, 1911.
girl. And my name is Hattie Henne-
bohle. Please bring me a baby doll
cradle and mittens. and a slate and
slate pencil story books and a few
games a red dress and a necklace and
bracelet and nuts and candy and a
white dress and a Christmas tree
Will hang my stocking up We Will
give you the key to come. Do not for
get the poor children. | live at 1872
Cedar street Your friend
HATTIE HENNEBOHIE
Hammond, Ind. Dec. 13, 1911.
Dear Santa: 1 am a boy that is 9
years old. I wish YOU would bring
me a two wheel air tire bicycle. a
sword. a nice suit an overcoat, a pair
of high top shoes. a coon target game.
ball That will he all
forget to tell you that I want nuts
and candy and a Christmas tree
will hang UP my stockings. And don't
forget the pool people in the hospital
That's all for this christmas.
From your truly friend.
WILLIAM HENNEBOHLE.
432 Cedar street.
Hammond. Ind. Dec 49, 1911
Dear Santa: | am going to tell you
what l would like to have for Xmas
| want fire engine with 2 horses. and
gun. | have three little brothers
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saxony, Ind, Dec. 10, 1911.

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EVELYN KNOERZER
A Merry Christmas and Happy New
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Please bring mamma and papa some
thing. I bet you get tired. Don't have
any wreck on the road. Good bye.
Santa.
ENGLETON MURPHY. /
ARTHUR MURPHY. I
PHILIP MURPHY.
$50 Wilcox street
East Chicago Ind. Dec. 10. 1911
Dear Santa Claus. Please viii you
bring me a story book and my brother
one. too2 / think that is all
MABLE MORGAN. 1
East Chicago, Ind. Dec. IL. 1911
Dear Santa CLAUSE Will you bring
shoes AS other children want pres
ents, too. wish you would remember
all Your friend,
RAYMOND BIRD.
East Chicago Ind. Dec. 10. 1911
Dear Santa Claus: Please bring me
a light for the back of my automobile
and an umbrella two feet high. Please
bring my sister a box of handker-
chiefs. That is all l have to say just
now. Your friend.
GEORGE LLOYD.
Hammond Ind Dec -. 1911.
Dear santa: ! am a girl years old.
l would like to have bracelet and so
does my sister. and I want a pair of
hair ribbons and some nuts and candy.
Do not forget the poor.
From your loving friend
COLLIDE LUELI4A HIPSHER.
| live at 327 Cedar street
Indiana Harbor. Ind. Dec. 10. 1911
Pear santa a Gia ai5e yes want d,d DOH and
you to remember the poor children.
Yours truly
GEORGETTA SMITH
Hammond. Ind. Dec. IS. 1911.
Dear Santa Claus: / am good boy
five years old. As Xmas will soon be
here ] want 10 tell YOU what 1 want.
want a train with track. a story
book chair ] have a little brother
two years old, don't forget him and be
sure and bring us a Christmas tree,
niltS and candy.
Your little friend.
ALFRED KOSANKE.
SOS Michigan avenue
Hammond. Ind. Dec 49, 1911.
Dear Santa Claus: ] am little girl
years old | go to school Please
bring me a dresser and a sewing ma
chine and a set of dishes and some
Lovingly your friend,
LIZZIE HIPSHER.
East Chicago. Ind. Dec. 10. 1911.
Dear Santa Claus: Since | hear you
are in Hammond l would like 10 tell
YOU what 4 want for Christmas 1t
seems a very long time since l saw
want pair of leggins. a pair of kid
gloves and a red rain cap if you can.
because there ar other children. and
don't forget the poor. Fam little girl
seven years old and go to the Mekin-
ley school every day.
EVELYN OSTERBERG.
East Chicago Ind. Dec. IS. 1911.
Dear Santa: ! am little boy nine
wears old. | have been good since last
Christmas. I want farmers wagon
and "A rain coat and hat. That is ALI
But do not forget my mother and
father and sisters and brother. and
the sick and poor.
Your friend
ROLAND SMITH.
Hammond Ind, Dec. 10. 1911.
Dear Old santa. | wish you a Merry
Chris tmas and a Happy New Year 1t
will soon he Xmas day, Santa. l am
a girl nine years of age. There are SO
many letters in the paper that l
thought I'd write l am in fourth grade
and go to the public school / would
like a pair of skates I very much
interested in cooking and would like
little girls cook book, candy and
nuts. Please give the poor lots of
things, Santa dear.
Your friend,
LOUISE C. KASKE.
p. S. Don't forget the tree. and
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would like to get a good look at you
Black Oak Ind, Dec IS, 1911
Dear Santa Claus. | am FIVE years
old. Mamma says / am good bow
SO VIII you please bring me a little
farm wagon just like grandpa's big
one and little grocery store and some
nuts and candy, and don't forget
grandma and grandpa. and my new
cousin, Charles. That is all for this
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TIRE i ANp LENoRA srEEB.
Hessville. Ind. Dec. II, 1911.

IItNsN TIC. IIlu.. DEC. =, Iy IT.
My Dearest Santa. / have been read
ing all the letters that were wrote to
you so | thought / had better hurry
Christmas will soon be here Ny
TOYS are few I have been sick and
] am very glad that ! am getting bet
ter to enjoy my Christmas with my
papa and mamma. All l would like
for YOU to bring me is a doll and
dolls nigh chair and a game. candy,
nuts and Christmas tree. Hoping
you will not forget me, also a Merry
Christmas and Happy New Year to
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WILLIAM KNOERZER.


Crown Point. Ind. Dec. II. 1911
Dear Santa Claus: We thought it
about time we were letting you know
what we wanted for Christmas our
don't want to be too hard on YOU but
we would like a little sideboard with
looking glass on it. we would like
II about the size of the dresser you
brought us last year, and we also
would like little rocking chair if you
nave anything else to spare that is
nice for little girls you can bring it,
and don't forget to bring us a tree
Wishing you a Merry Christmas and
a happy New Year We are your good
little girls.
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Saxony, Ind, Dec 10, 1911
pear santa Claus. | am a little boy
4 YEARS old. l would like you to bring
me little gun, a little pair of boots
size :. team of ponias with blankets
on them. box of building blocks and
bring my little sister Rosy big doll
a pink dress, pair of white kid shoes.
a pink hair ribbon. stocking, candy
nuts and Christmas tree
Your little boy,
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Don wants a dump cart Arthur wants
a hook and ladder and Philip wants a
rocking horse. Bring a tree TOO.
Please bring mamma and papa some
thing. / bet you get tired Don't have
any wreck ON the road. Good bye.
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Your little friend.
GEORGE SCHEIDT.

Saxony. Ind, Dec. 13. 1911
Dear Santa Claus. ! am little girl
years old. / viii tell you what I
want for Christmas. / want a dolls
dress, a box Of handkerchiefs. box
of dishes, a pair of red hair ribbons
a. little cupboard for my dishes a lit
tie telephone, and don't forget my
grandma. my papa and mamma. That
is all this year.
From your friend
u II
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remain a friend,
ELSIE REICHARDT.
Hammond, Ind. Dec II. 1911.

Hammond, Ind. Dec. y. 1911
Dear Santa Claus: l am a little girl
years old and l go to school Dear
Santa, ] was a good girl all year so
hope you won't forget me this Xmas
and bring me a doll, story book and a
dclls high chair and nuts candy and
a Christmas tree.
l do not think it's too much as the
little orphans will want some toys too.
Wishing you a Merry Christmas and
a Happy New Year L will close so
good might. from
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Your little friend.
LILLE REICHARDT


Indiana Harbor. Ind. Dec -I3, 1911
Dear Santa. NY name is Ruth Paul
/ am nine years old. | wish TO remind
YOU of the order l gave YOU and tell
YOU some more. You know | ordered
doll bed and set Of. dishes. pair
I want you TO bring me a doll dress
and a little lamp / don't believe
want any more 7 will close. Good
bye. / remain as ever your true friend,
RUTH PAUL.
1918 HemIock street
WHY ARE YOU NOT TIMES
REAnER7
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ENGLETON MURPHY.
A RTHUR MURPHY.
PHILIP MURPHY.
$50 Wilcox street.

East Chicago. Ind, Dec 49, 1911
Dear santa Claus. Please viii you
bring me story book and my brother
one, too2 l think that is all
Your friend.
MABLE MORGAN
The Glenwood post., 1911-08-19
wyoming.

l.. w. Tenant has just made 4 very
promising strike of copper, together
with some lead and silver, on a prop
erty about four miles from Encamp-
ment on the south side of the north
fork In rhe bottom of 50-foot shaft
on white quartz and schist vein he has
cut into some high-grade copper sui
phides and galena, some of the pretti-
est mineral specimens found in the
district.
A great deal of local interest has
been aroused by reports of the dis
covery of bonanza gold values in a
property owned by John F. Johnson.
over near Encampment, about mile
east of the Gibraltar property. Ac-
cording to reports made by reliable
assayers of Leadville and the Colorado
School of Mines the values run from
seven to thirty-two ounces In gold.
Six assays have been made showing
this range in values.
The Glenwood post., 1911-08-19

CBy CAPT A H. wADDELL)
II we are good judges of human ma
ture. or able to judge others by their
biographers. we should feel very much
inclined to lay $40 bill to 1Oc piece
that the willy Richard" who once
made himself hoarse shouting "A
Horse. Horse, my Kingdom for
Horse" wanted good one.
Richard had just killed five Rich
monds. or thought he had. and was
looking for another when his horse
was killed under him. and when he
uttered his memorable words. Yes.
he wanted horse and he wanted one
badly enough. but he wanted good
one.
A good horse was what he wanted.
good horses are what we all want and
1t is only the large breeder who can
really tell us. how many bad horses
he breeds, for one good one that he
sells. This is in large measure due
to haphazard methods in breeding;
breeders are not careful enough In
the selection of their parent stock, nor
do they take pains enough to ascertain
the peculiarities and characteristics of
the families from which the parent
stock comes.
In the trotting horse everything has
been neglected for speed, and in the
thoroughbred in this country, nothing
but this element has been considered;
the result is too well known to be re-
capitulated Notwithstanding this no.
body seems to try to remedy the de-
fects that this near sightedness has
produced. There is not one trotting
horse in thousand whose anatomical
formation. physical and constitutional
soundness. will permit him to become
2:10 trotter. nor is there one race
horse in the same number that can
gallop mile in first class company
with any chance OF winning. for the
same reason.
Breeders no not give sufficient care
to individuality size. bone. substance
and soundness; they never think Of
temper or temperament and only con-
slider speed, which. although inherited
on both sides is useless in a weakling
Stamps and types of horses and
ponies have been bred which are well
e1emplified in the Shire. Clydesdale
Suffolk. Percheron. Belgium and Hack
ney. Why cannot this obtain in some
measure at least in the trotter and
thoroughbred in America? 1t does in
other countries and why should it not
The Glenwood post., 1911-08-19

here. in the greatest and most lavish
ly. bestowed by nature for the pur-
pose?
The American Is the best business
man in the world, as good horse
man as can be produced anywhere.
and is always looking for the straight
est way of getting to certain point.
and has certainly succeeded in sur
prising the world In this direction. He
has produced the most extraordinary
light harness horse that has ever been
heard of, when speed alone is consid-
cred. and also some Of the fastest
thoroughbreds, and it seems that the
time has not arrived when more care
should be shown in the selection of
horses for breeding purposes. so as to
be able to produce sounder, bigger.
and better individuals
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PERSONAL APPEAL THE BEST
Suggestions to the Small Town Retail
er for Interesting tho
Buyers.

Many small-town retailers look with
a jealous eye at their city brethren
who have the ways and means for ad-
vertising. II they would but stop and
think minute they could easily find
methods that would make the city
dealer jealous of them. The small
town retailer has the advantage of be-
ing able to use personal appeal" ad-
vertising to the highest degree which.
after all, is the only method that gains
and holds customer and makes him
valuable asset.
The Progressive Retailer took the
trouble to secure the opinion of some
of the leading small-town retailers as
to the best method of trade promotion.
The answers given below show con-
clusively how easy it is for this class
of merchants to use personal appeal
to advantage.
Get out your handbills by the hun
dreds, especially when you have any
special goods on which you are max
ing run.
Compete with the catalogue houses
by offering to furnish at the same
price, plus eXpressage or freight and
expense of money order, the goods
made by the responsible firms with
which you deal.
Mail circulars early in the fall, win
ter. spring and summer, advertising
seasonable goods at fair prices.
Look after your store windows. The
way to sell goods is to show them.
NJ a Fl a r
all possible customers. If he cannot
close up any special deal, try and get
the man into the store-and then it's
up TO you, Mr. Proprietor
Get a list of the property owners
within a half dozen miles of your store,
and then lombard them.
Send out circular each month.
calling attention to your seasonable
goods.
Send out woman to drum for
womens trade.
Get acquainted with your custom
ers, and make point of calling their
attention to goods for which they hSve
not asked.
Keep all your promises to custom
ers Get reputation for honesty Re
kind to the children who come to the
store; they are your future customers.
Notice the elders. and be able to call
every man by name as he comes into
the store.
Paint your store when it needs it.
and above all keep everything clean
and neat.
Keen season goods well displayed,
and priced in plain figures"
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Helpful Ad. Hints.

It Is said that people forget
easily in the summer time.
That's all the more reason why
you should not let up on your
advertising.
A western merchant said to
his employees: Boys, want you
to remember that this store
stands for me. am honest and
fair, and | want you to be the
same with customers, because
you represent me. want you
to be frank and ready. and will
ing and courteous; for these are
the things stand for, and 10 the
policy Of my store. Remember
the reputation Of this store Is
what you and | make It,"
You insure your store and
your stock. Why not let we'll
conducted advertising insure
the life Of your business, it's
good name. its profits and its
future7
The price and tho profit
don't pay too much for tho one.
or obtain too little of the other.
Yes, advertising "runs into
money" but It's cheaper to start
today than tomorrow. The
storekeeper who "wins out" 10
he who seizes the opportunity
that his competitor merely sees.
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A Bigger Curiosity.

At country fair in a western state
one of the attractions of which was
an exhibition OF curious animals, there
appeared a countryman attended by
large assortment of boys and girls
and a wife in huge sunbonnet
The countryman took the barker"
into his confidence. I'D like to go in
and see them animals" said he. but
It would be kinder mean to go In with
out my family. and cant afford
to pay for my wife and Is children"
The city-reared barker stared at
the man In amazement. Are all
those your children" he asked
gasping.
Every one of the 15." said the
man.
Just wait minute and I'll Ak 1t up
Syr you" said the obiging bark
s4r. III bring out them animals and
~ 'em have look at you and your
Nmily."-Harpers Monthly
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SUMMER WORK
FOR CHICKENS
Where There Is Not Per fect1y Com.
Portable Poultry House on
Farm One Should be Pro-
vided This Summer.
BY MILLER PUvIS.j

If there is not a perfectly comfort
able poultry house on the farm, one
should be planned and provided this
summer, at least before cold weather
sets in, for it is poor planning to put
off providing warm poultry house
until the time arrives for its use. A
comfortable poultry house need not be
a costly one nor particularly warm
one Every poultry house should have
two rooms with a tight partition be-
tween them II it is build in this way
the flock may be crowded into one
room when very cold weather comes.
and the heat of their bodies will keep
the room warm. A hen does not feel
the cold as quickly as a man does. for
her blood is five per cent. warmer nat
uraly. and il she can sleep where
there ia no draft blowing on her she
will be very comfortable in a room in
which the temperature runs as low as
10 to ~ degrees below the freezing
point.
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THE CHANGE IN ADVERTISING
Policy Of Fooline or Defrauding Read
ers Prevalent Years Ago Almost
Unknown Today.

All the business men can recall a
form of advertising that was very
prevail, 1 about 10 TO 20 years ago.
The idea was to fool reader against
his will to peruse an advertisement. 1t
WAS assumed that the reader was hos
tile to all advertising, and that the
only way to get him to read 1t was
to perpetrate a fraud. An advertise
ment would start In like news aru-
Gle, as If it was some sensational or
tragic happening. With more or less
ingenuity the reader would be led on
to the advice to buy Quackerjack pills
or Cheatham's corsets
The practical result was to anger
the reader at so childish a deception,
and few goods were sold in that
fashion.
The big dry goods merchants were
the leaders in modern advertising.
They were early with the discovery
that the public does not have to be
caioled. tessed or defrauded in order
to get advertising read. They found
on the contrary that the public was
eagerly turning to the advertising to
get ltS questions asked, tnat lue man
who did not answer those questions
was slighted, and the man who did
answer them got the business
The public does not turn to adver-
tsing for wit. humor or monkey ca
pers. 1t simply asks a merchant to
tell them about some of his most at
tractive offerings. 10 describe them so
clearly that they can know just about
hat they are and what they will cost
You no more need to work off a
fraud on your readers to get them to
read that kind Of advertising than the
editor needs to play food tricks on
them to get them to read any other
good live news.
The department store men have
built up their great business by recog
nizing that the public wants the news
of their stores. and is governed in its
purchases by the presentation of that
news In the advertising. They found
out that the store that does not adver
tise is as much out of the game as the
newspaper that should print articles
out of an encyclopedia on its ~
page.