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Appeals to Toy Fund echo through the decades

Por: Portland Press Herald Nation December 18, 2022

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The notes from parents arrived 30 years apart, but the message was the same: families struggling with rising prices and difficult economic conditions in need of help to provide holiday gifts for their children. In 1951, the third year of what is now known as the Press Herald Toy Fund, fund chairman Matthew Barron didn’t mince words when he described the struggle families were facing dealing with high costs of food, clothing, rent and fuel. How... + full article



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