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"ref": "1882, Margaret Eytinge, “Mistress Santa Claus”, in Harper’s Young People, volume III, New York: Harper & Brothers, […], page 119, column 1",
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"ref": "1897, Mabel L. Pray, “A Christmas Gift”, in Alice Maude Kellogg, editor, Christmas Entertainments […]",
"text": "Just as he started for his sleigh / One eve, in old December, / He turned to Mistress Santa Claus / And said, “Did you remember / About that fine new Paris doll / for wee Dot in the city? / I must not fail to take that gift, / ’Twould be a dreadful pity.”",
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"text": "The first scene shows several little girls with their dollies enjoying a tea party, and in the act of singing “Go To Sleep, My Little Dollie,” after which they decide to journey North in search of Mistress Santa Claus.",
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"ref": "1911, Christian Advocate, volume 86, page 2, column 2",
"text": "¶ Uncle Sam has a great sack of mail for Santa Claus. There is trouble getting it to him on account of the cold and distance, but Jack Frost, with the aid of the Fairies, Mistress Santa Claus and others, after a strenuous struggle succeed in reaching Snow-land, to the delight of Santa, and the joy of all.",
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"text": "Telluride held union Thanksgiving services, Montrose had the traditional Christmas program (an innovation was Mistress Santa Claus), Durango held revivals, and Pagosa Springs fought a bitter campaign against “demon rum.”",
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