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How did mail-order catalogs help people in more rural areas of the country?

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Besides allowing rural households access to affordable goods (well over half of the popular lived in rural America when Montgomery Ward launched the first catalog), mail-order shopping increased women's power as a consumer, a dynamic that exists in homes to this day.

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