How a scrappy Buffalo newspaper saved Christmas and sparked a movement : vimarsana.com

When people unfolded their copies of the Buffalo Times on Dec. 6, 1898, they read news of a diamond heist, a double divorce and a deadly boating accident in Algiers. But there, at the bottom of the front page, was something truly unexpected: a letter from Santa Claus.

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