Marshall Public Library presents the local history and genealogy program, All in the Family, on Tuesday, March 25, 2014 at 6:00 in the evening.
Learn the basics on how to begin researching and recording your family history. Join the Local History and Genealogy staff as they help you with the first steps of your incredible journey into the past.
This will be an informal around-the-table discussion group and we hope you'll join us for coffee, cookies and good conversation!
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Monday, December 23, 2013
Historic Letters to Santa Claus
Children have been writing letters to Santa for well over a century. The following are a sampling of Santa letters printed in Marshall, Missouri's Democrat-News beginning 100 years ago:
December 18, 1913
Dear Santa Claus: I have just finished my milking and night work. I want to tell you what I want for Xmas. I want a pair of ice skates, a new suit, a sled, a cap and oranges, bananas, nuts and candy. Please don’t forget my sister and brother and don’t forget my teacher, Miss Montague. Your little friend, MARVIN B. BLACKBURN
Dear Santa: I will tell you what I want for Christmas. I want some little chairs and a little table with them. I want a pastry set and some little tin dishes, a sewing set, a little piano and a little lamp and some games. With love, NELL BARNDS
December 20, 1923
Dear Santa Claus: I am a little boy 6-years old; I go to Jester to school, I am in the first grade; please Santa bring me a bee bee gun, a coaster, a wagon with a brake on it, a ball and a bat, some candy, nuts and oranges. Please Santa come to see my grandma, grandpa and daddy. Your little friend, ROBERT RAWLINGS
Dear Santa Claus: I am a little girl 6-years-old and have a little sister, Dorothy, 4-years-old; we would like for you to bring us each a big doll, sewing basket, little broom and lots of story books. From your little friends, VIRGINIA AND DOROTHY CARPENTER
December 12, 1933
Dear Santa Claus: I want a little car for a boy eight years old, a toy typewriter, a tool chest large, a real small violin that will play, and a policeman suit, and a Lotto and Keno, and an electric train, and a box building logs and a sled large. ROY TWILLING
Dear Santa: I am a little girl six years old. If you have enough toys to go around please give me a doll buggy, a set of dishes, a bank, a stove, that is all I can think of just now. If you have something else for me, you may leave it. Thank you dear old Santa Claus. BETTY JANE WRIGHT P.S. I am a good girl.
Historic Letters to Santa Claus were compiled by Marshall Public Library’s Local History/Genealogy staff member Andrea Hatfield from past issues of the Democrat-News on microfilm.
December 18, 1913
Dear Santa Claus: I have just finished my milking and night work. I want to tell you what I want for Xmas. I want a pair of ice skates, a new suit, a sled, a cap and oranges, bananas, nuts and candy. Please don’t forget my sister and brother and don’t forget my teacher, Miss Montague. Your little friend, MARVIN B. BLACKBURN
Dear Santa: I will tell you what I want for Christmas. I want some little chairs and a little table with them. I want a pastry set and some little tin dishes, a sewing set, a little piano and a little lamp and some games. With love, NELL BARNDS
December 20, 1923
Dear Santa Claus: I am a little boy 6-years old; I go to Jester to school, I am in the first grade; please Santa bring me a bee bee gun, a coaster, a wagon with a brake on it, a ball and a bat, some candy, nuts and oranges. Please Santa come to see my grandma, grandpa and daddy. Your little friend, ROBERT RAWLINGS
Dear Santa Claus: I am a little girl 6-years-old and have a little sister, Dorothy, 4-years-old; we would like for you to bring us each a big doll, sewing basket, little broom and lots of story books. From your little friends, VIRGINIA AND DOROTHY CARPENTER
December 12, 1933
Dear Santa Claus: I want a little car for a boy eight years old, a toy typewriter, a tool chest large, a real small violin that will play, and a policeman suit, and a Lotto and Keno, and an electric train, and a box building logs and a sled large. ROY TWILLING
Dear Santa: I am a little girl six years old. If you have enough toys to go around please give me a doll buggy, a set of dishes, a bank, a stove, that is all I can think of just now. If you have something else for me, you may leave it. Thank you dear old Santa Claus. BETTY JANE WRIGHT P.S. I am a good girl.
Historic Letters to Santa Claus were compiled by Marshall Public Library’s Local History/Genealogy staff member Andrea Hatfield from past issues of the Democrat-News on microfilm.
Thursday, September 5, 2013
Good News Local History Buffs! Greg Wolk, author of "Friend and Foe Alike - A Tour Guide To Missouri’s Civil War", has agreed to give a program at the Marshall Public Library on October 13 at 2:00. October 13 is the actual 150th Anniversary of The Battle of Marshall. Greg will talk about the battle and take on the issue of whether it was a battle or a skirmish. According to Greg, by military definition it was indeed a battle. This should be a fun and lively program. Greg will have copies of his book for sale which includes a driving tour and pictures of the locations around town where the Battle of Marshall took place.
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