This special Christmas episode of the Useless Information Retrocast includes the following Footnotes to History:
Bank Accounts of 41,000 Schoolchildren Saved (1915)
Christmas Cactus Theft Epidemic (1920)
Gift Wrapper Raps in Vain (1947)
Boy Wishes for Stone for Mother’s Grave (1949)
Could Beggar Be Santa Claus? (1949)
New Roof for Christmas (1952)
Wife Teed Off At Husband (1955)
Christmas Cards Arrive 20 Years Late (1960)
Santa Zapped By Power Line (1965)
Santa Claus Exists (1972)
The song played at the end of this podcast was On a Good Old Time Sleigh Ride, which was recorded by the Peerless Quartette in 1913.