Mrs. Culp Revisited: April 3, 1937

Reading cards and reading palms

It was marketing day and Mrs. Culp brought a bushel basket of chicken, eggs, asparagus, tomato juice and fruit to a Mrs. F. As a thank you, "Mrs. F. read the cards for me," she wrote, sniffing in parentheses, "nonsense." She also underlined the word, so it was clear how she felt about it. Fortune telling was popular in the 1930s. On March 1, 1937, Elean…