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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Thelma and Lowell's Diary: Feb. 18, 1943

Thelma and Lowell's Diary: Feb. 18, 1943

They go grocery shopping; industrialist warns against sending women back to kitchen

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Thelma and Lowell's Diary: Feb. 18, 1943
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Lowell came home and slept after working the night shift today, while Thelma washed out some clothes. When he awoke, they got “a large order of groceries,” buying also camera film, stamps and cards. They played cards in the afternoon before supper and listened to the radio in the evning before Lowell again reported to work.

Thelma seems to have no proble…

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