SMALL BUSINESS: Dottle's Dough

Until she broke her leg in a fall last year, Mrs. Dorothy Ferguson, 39, of Greeley, Colo. liked to putter about the kitchen just like any other housewife, occasionally whipping up a batch of cookies for her husband and two daughters. By last week Housewife Ferguson had become the busiest, most prominent businesswoman in Greeley (pop. 20,000), and dozens of her neighbors were in business with her.

While waiting for her fracture to heal, Dottie Ferguson got to thinking "what a wonderful thing it would be if you could just go to the...

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