Overheard
During the Depresssion, when some people were sleeping on mattresses stuffed with corn husks or straw, the government sponsored a program in which people could make their own quality mattresses.
A government agency furnished the ticking, cotton, thread and needles to a community group. Where I grew up in the Ozark foothills of Lawrence County Arkansas, the c...
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