"Went marketing in the morning bargain sale at New York Sample Shop -- but no bargains for me," recounted Mrs. Culp, a frugal housewife always on the look-out for a good deal. Then she wrote letters to her sister, Else, in St. Petersburg and son Frank, the traveling musician. (Long distance was very expensive in those days and rarely mentioned by Mrs. C…
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