Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 290, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1911 — Santa Claus Pays Visit To Bensselaer Today. [ARTICLE]

Santa Claus Pays Visit To Bensselaer Today.

As had been previously announced, Santa Claus came to Rensselaer today, on the ten o’clock train from the south. About two hundred children were at the train to meet him, and a great shout went up when the rosy and smiling countenance of good old Saint Nick was seen to emerge from the coach. He immediately became the center of a mob of youngsters, that stuck’closer thair a brother, and the concourse followed him as jie wended his way townward. Each child Was to get a present, and only one previous announcement hadheen made through the columns of this paper last night. The throng that greeted the patron saint of the yule tide speaks volumnes for the value of publicity in these columns. ♦ •

This was an advertising "stunt” of Jarrette’s Variety Store.