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One drowsy day in 1895 Catherine Evans, a farm girl from Dalton, Ga., journeyed back into the hills to visit a cousin. There she saw a pair of family-heirloom "candlewick" bedspreads, the handsomest bedspreads she had seen in all her born days. Back she went to Dalton. learned to...
A few years later a Dalton dentist's wife, Mrs. H. L. Jarvis, who had been to college and knew more about big cities than blue-eyed Catherine Evans, proposed to market the bedspreads for Catherine in department stores. John Wanamaker bought half-a-dozen, then contracted for the...
Soon Catherine had competitors. Mrs. Jarvis started a firm of her own. In 1921 Mrs. C. B. Wood, known around Dalton as Sister Kate, made some fancy, fringed spreads for Wanamaker's, by 1929 was producing as many as 600 a day, often had 1,500 at once out...
CATHERINE BAYS PARRISH Flint, Mich.
"Mrs. Miniver herself, when buying fireworks, was apt to be led away by fantastic titles; she would order Humming Spiders, Witches' Cauldrons, Mines with Serpents. . . . Clem . . . laid out a certain amount on Roman Candles, Catherine-wheels, and Tourbillions, but for the most part he rightly concentrated on rockets. There...