Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

Baptists, Bootleggers, and Everything in Between

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Mrs. Culp's Diary, Monday, September 27, 1937

Mrs. Culp's Diary, Monday, September 27, 1937

'Doctor' Urbuteit shatters Mrs. Culp's nerves with a dire diagnosis

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Mrs. Culp's Diary, Monday, September 27, 1937
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The Culps went to see Dr. Urbuteit to take a treatment. (Read the March 29 entry of Mrs. Culp’s diary to get the low-down on this low character.) “He discouraged me very much, that I have arthritis [and] will be crippled like he is. That made me very despondent,” she wrote. Despite the quack doctor’s promise of curing all sorts of diseases with his elec…

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