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, Thursday, November 4, 1937

Mrs. Culp's Diary, Thursday, November 4, 1937

What on earth is Walter's new business???

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Mrs. Culp returned to the cooking school at the Tampa Gas Company today. Walter took an early bus to St. Petersburg, as he had placed an ad in the St. Petersburg Times seeking a salesman. "3 came to see him, one might do,” she wrote.

Here’s the ad, which raises more questions than I can possibly answer.

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