Front and center is an incredibly cute photograph of little Cynthia and Martha Moir, daughters of Alan and Billie Moir, getting a snack ready for Santa Claus consisting of a cup of cocoa and some cookies. They
Christmas 1953 was going to be a snowless one, with warmer temperatures predicted and a possible high of 35 degrees.
As for Christmas Eve, it was one for the (crime) books, with the night manager of the Victoria Hotel at 11th and Broadway beaten by a burglar; two residents of a Camden Avenue home bloodying each other for no particular reason other than they both had been drinking; an Elyria woman who, during her arrest, assaulted two deputies, a Lorain policeman and her employer; the story of a dragnet of state highway patrolmen who apprehended a trio of Cleveland men in a stolen car; and the owner of Jax Men's Store, after two break-ins the same week, "suggested to burglars that they patronize some other place for a while."
But it wasn't all bad news. The Postmaster of the Lorain Post Office promised that "every piece of Christmas mail – cards and packages – which was in the Lorain Post Office by 8 a. m. today will be out of the post office and delivered to the receivers before the day is over."
And a little puppy that had been trapped in a well in Carlsbad, New Mexico was rescued and became a Christmas present for the children of one of the men who rescued her.
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Sadly, Cynthia Moir passed away in March 2018.
