Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

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Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between
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Mrs. Culp's Diary, Monday July 26, 1937

Mrs. Culp's Diary, Monday July 26, 1937

And now, the plumber is at work

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Mrs. Culp's Diary, Monday July 26, 1937
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In Mrs. Culp’s world, it was a fairly quiet Monday. She got a letter from sister Else in Miami, who had been feeling poorly but was better, and answered it. She made a visit to the Edison Street house and reported, “The plumber started to work.”

Here is a humorous (and quite politically incorrect!) postcard from Mrs. Culp’s era about a visiting plumber …

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