1940 autograph book- Miss Shirley Jewel Finch-Part 1

Shirley Jewel Finch
Ottawa, Kansas

"To keep my friends
Is my delight
So in this book
I pray you'll write."

To Shirley on her 8th birthday from Mildred 1941
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July 10, 1941 Rantoul, Kansas

Dear Shirley:
I wish I were a bunny all covered
over with fluff.
I'd hop upon your dresser and
be your powder puff.-Maude Finch
p.s. Remember the day before your birthday you went to town (Ottawa Kansas) with me.
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Rantoul Kansas
July 26, 1941

I hate to write in autographs
Oh yes! I really do
And I wouldn't write in this one
If the owner weren't you.

Your cousin and friend-Lucille

I bet I made every fool in town turn this book upside down (written upside down on bottom of page)
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Rantoul Kansas

Dear Shirley,

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Grass is green
and so are you.

Your cousin Virgil
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Dear Shirley:

Your eyes are sky blue
your hair is pretty blonde
Please remember us
when we are gone.

Aunt Vi
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Olathe Kansas
April 17 1945

Dear Little Shirley
your hair is blonde
and your eyes are blue
You are Aunt Dollie's and Gus' best old pal.
Aunt Dollie
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June 22-1943

Dear Shirley
Your eyes are blue
Your hair is pretty blond
Please remember us
when we are gone.

Uncle Lloyd
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June 15, 1942

Dear Shirley

Two in a hammock
trying to kiss
all at once,
It went like this("This" written upside down with a line through it)

Love
your pal, Deanie
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Jan 16 1943

Dear Shirley,

When you are married
and have twins
Don't come to my house
For safety pins.

Love Agnes
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I love you little
I love you Big
I love you like
a little pig

Dorothy Ann Baldwin
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Rantoul, Kansas
July 20, 1941

Dear Shirley

Shirley is her name
Rantoul is her station
Boys leave her alone
Until she gets her education.

Your good friend,
Joyce Maghee

Yours till the table legs wear stockings-Foo+Goo
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July 19-1941

My darling little neice,
My lovefor thee shall ever flow
Like water down
a 'tator row.

Aunt Flora
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Ottawa Kansas
July 20 1941

Dear Shirley-

Shirley Temple
or Shirley Finch
You are a peach
and that's a cinch.

Lots and lots of love and happiness is my wish.
Your Aunt Viva? Roberts

P.s. Don't froget how we ate roasting ears, icecream and blackberry pie at your house today,
Ottawa Kas
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Jan 5, 1943
Rantoul Kansas

Dear Shirley,

Down in the valley,
carved on a rock.
Are these three little words
For-Get-Me-Not.

Your Friend Joyce Redick

Yours til the catfish have kittens
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Maple Grove School
Dec 11, 1942

Dearest Shirley,

"Count the day lost
Whose low descending sun
Views from thy hand
No worthy action done."

Lots of love,
Your teacher
Lena D. Adkins
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Rantoul Kansas
April 27, 1943

Dear Shirley

I wish you health,
I wish you wealth,
I wish you gold in store,
I wish you heaven after death,
What could I wish you more?

A friend
Mildred Phillips

For-get-me-not

Yours til the Statue of Liberty does the fan dance
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May 16, 1946

Dear Shirley,
I have enjoyed having you in class. I think you are a very sweet girl. You have very pretty hair. I wish you the best of luck.

Sincerely
Genevieve Gillette
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Mar 27, 1946
Remember the M
Remember the E
Put them together and remember me.

for-get-me-not

Vera Gardner