Filling Orders
on behalf of this country
Dan Barry: Another special request came in the other day to the old brick factory on Gallagher Avenue, where pride — if not much profit — is taken in being the country’s last maker of washboards. A worker, one of only four, all women, reached for an empty box and began to fill the order.
One metal washtub
One coil of clothesline
One pack of clothespins
Two bars of soap
Six tins of foot powder
