Much of the ordering of commodities by the settlers was done through the huge mail-order Catalogs issued by half a dozen large companies in the East.
"Land of the Burnt Thigh"
Edith Eudora Kohl
Those mail-order Catalogs were of enormous importance to the homesteaders.
"Land of the Burnt Thigh"
Edith Eudora Kohl
Apart from other trash, these contained confessional and communion prayers instructions on Repentance, Confession, and the Sacrament of the Altar; above all, however, a mirror of sins, intended as a guide for self-examination, on the basis of various lists of sins and Catalogs of virtues, which supplanting the Decalog were to be memorized.
"Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church"
Friedrich Bente