Christmas tradition: R.L. Ripples and the @TweetsofOld

The @TweetsofOld Twitter account (aka R.L. Ripples) is wonderful to follow throughout the entire year, when it is often on-point in contrasting current news with past sentiments.

But I really treasure @TweetsofOld during the Christmas holiday season — just as I used to love those red-and-green, softball-sized sugary popcorn balls — when it tweets out real "Dear Santa" requests pulled from old newspapers.

I did one of these roundups of my favorite R.L. Ripples gems back in 2014, and it's time for another one. Enjoy.

And be sure to follow @TweetsofOld!

Santa, I am a stranger in a strange land. Please bring me the doll that Auntie took from me, an automobile to go back to Ohio. Elsie VA1904

— R.L. Ripples (@TweetsofOld) December 17, 2016

Dear Santa: Please bring me lots of fireworks that wont blow a boys hands off or put a boys eye out like Willie's. Jimbo MO1908

— R.L. Ripples (@TweetsofOld) December 16, 2016

Dear Santa: I am 7. I want a cap pistol, 20 boxes caps, wagon heap full of nuts. Please DON’T FAIL TO BRING THEM. Goodbye, Patton MO1909

— R.L. Ripples (@TweetsofOld) December 18, 2016

Dear Santa, I would like a sled and Some nice things to eat. I am very fond of pie. Please send me some. Floid Reid UT1909

— R.L. Ripples (@TweetsofOld) December 18, 2016

Dear Santy, Please don't come like you did last year and crack my fingers. I want a monkey that runs up a string. Claude Glase PA1895

— R.L. Ripples (@TweetsofOld) December 18, 2016

Dear Santa, Some boys don't like dolls but I do. Won't you bring me a pretty doll in a brown dress and checkered coat? Gordon TX1914

— R.L. Ripples (@TweetsofOld) December 17, 2016

Dear Santaclase--Plase send me a big doll with pretty hair and nuts. Goodby --Eleanor MN1904

— R.L. Ripples (@TweetsofOld) December 15, 2016

Dear Santa, I want you to bring me a horn. I will not blow my horn I just want to look at it. Your little friend. Ray Wright MS1920

— R.L. Ripples (@TweetsofOld) December 17, 2016

Dear Santa: I want a little steam engine, a pair of mittens, and bring me some sauerkraut and a pound of weenies. Albert Breugel IN1913

— R.L. Ripples (@TweetsofOld) December 14, 2016

Dear Santa, I am sorry that Vixen is ill. I'd like to have a raincoat, an introduction to some girl, a bottle of baby mints. -Jesse PA1903

— R.L. Ripples (@TweetsofOld) December 8, 2016

Dear Santa, I want nothing but a doll. be kind enough and have it dressed in sailor clothes, name it Lloyd. Bessie FL1914

— R.L. Ripples (@TweetsofOld) December 6, 2016

Dear Santa: I want a bicycle awful bad so I can get me a job with Western Union to help make a support for my mother. Willie, 10. TX1912

— R.L. Ripples (@TweetsofOld) December 13, 2016

Dear Santa, My papa is dead. A man is suing mamma for the house. Please give mamma the house so we have a house to live in. Harriet IN1908

— R.L. Ripples (@TweetsofOld) December 11, 2016

Dear Santa, I have all I want. Don’t want nothing more. Mack Beavers OK1904

— R.L. Ripples (@TweetsofOld) December 14, 2016

Dear Santa, I don’t want many things because the children in Belgium haven’t any shoes or toys, so I want them to have some. Agnes CT1917

— R.L. Ripples (@TweetsofOld) December 8, 2016