Mrs. Culp's Diary, Monday, January 11, 1937

"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 and son Frank. (Long distance was very expensive in these days and rarely mentioned by Mrs. Culp.) That evening Walter, their son William…