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Montgomery Wards. You could order just about anything you needed. Some preferred one over the other just like we do stores today. They sent out a Christmas Catalog, and we would spend hours looking and wishing. The catalog soon became known as the "Wish Book."

If you did not order early, you did not always get your order on time. One order and one trip to the grocery store was generally all that was needed. The baking was done the week before Christmas,

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