‘Wine for to wet with Christmas’

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          Three days before Christmas in the waning days of 1890, well-known Presidio County rancher and businessman John B. Davis scratched out a short note and mailed it to the general store he did business with.  

          This is what he wrote that distant December 22:

          Humpries & Co.

          Please to send me

          One 1 – Bottle of goo…