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, Wednesday, January 13, 1937

Mrs. Culp's Diary, Wednesday, January 13, 1937

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Mrs. Culp's Diary, Wednesday, January 13, 1937
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This afternoon Mrs. Culp read Cosmopolitan Magazine, which was a very different publication from the COSMO of today. Like Redbook, it published fiction by best-selling authors like Louis Bromfield and Faith Baldwin (queen of modern romance novels and one of the best-paid writers in America) rather than endless articles on dating and “getting the sex you…

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