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Today, on the useless information retrocast, you'll hear 10 totally true Christmas stories that have been mostly forgotten to time.

You'll learn about how the savings accounts of 41,000 Pittsburgh Pennsylvania students were saved after their bank went bankrupt.

And then there's a story of a man who has served golf ball hash for Christmas.

And how about two boys who had a conversation via their new walkie talkies with the one and only Santa Claus?

While all those stories and more coming up next, I am Steve Sultman and this is the useless information podcast.

The useless information.

Hi everyone, happy holidays.

Today's kind of a bonus episode.

I just put this together very quickly.

And that's because I had a whole bunch, a whole pile of Christmas shorts, just little stories in my collection.

So I decided to take 10 of them and put them into a short retrocast.

Now I'm just going to read these word for word and I'm not going to add much in the way of comments, but I think you will enjoy it.

So let's dive right in.

The stories from the December 25th, 1915 edition of the New York Times.

And there's four headlines to this.

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