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SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:02:50
A story about borrowing a tire from a farmer that was being used as a chicken feeder to repair his car continues on from Tape One; cars, tires.
SIDE A 00:02:50 -- 00:11:57
Discussion about his job at the local general store, grading eggs, and working for J.F. Morris; J. F. Morris, egg grading, eggs, general stores, eggs.
SIDE A 00:11:57 -- 00:13:43
Discussion about working for Canada Packers and laying mash; Canada Packers, mash.
SIDE A 00:13:43 -- 00:15:33
A story about some geese getting into oats; geese, oats.
SIDE A 00:15:33 -- 00:19:35
Discussion about mussel mud; Holman's Island, fertilizer, mussel mud.
SIDE A 00:19:35 -- 00:22:12
Discussion about planting by the phases of the moon and seaweed and lobster fertilizer; fertilizer, lobsters, seaweed, phases of the moon, planting by the moon, superstitions.
SIDE A 00:22:12 -- 00:24:42
Discussion about ice travel and a story of a farmer going through the ice while he was moving mussle mud; accidents, ice travel, mussel mud.
SIDE A 00:24:42 -- 00:26:00
A story about a man who fell into a digger's hole; accidents.
SIDE A 00:26:00 -- 00:28:33
Discussion about how white sand was used to clean floors; white sand, swamp sand, cleaning.
SIDE A 00:28:33 -- 00:30:02
Discussion about hired help for the farms; hard work, wages, hired man.
SIDE A 00:30:02 -- 00:32:14
Discussion about big families; big families.
SIDE A 00:31:14 -- 00:33:20
Discussion about farmer priests; Father Smith, church, priests, farmers.
SIDE A 00:33:20 -- 00:36:44
Discussion about sleighs and bells; sleigh bells, sleighs, horse and sleigh.
SIDE A 00:36:44 -- 00:37:53
Discussion about his siblings and courting women; courting, dating.
SIDE A 00:37:53 -- 00:38:45
Discussion about the Halifax Explosion; Halifax Explosion.
SIDE A 00:38:45 -- 00:40:30
Discussion about WWI and the Spanish Flu; Spanish Flu, WWI.
SIDE A 00:40:30 -- 00:42:24
Discussion about diphtheria and the undertaker who hired men to help him; rum, undertakers, diphtheria.
SIDE A 00:42:24 -- 00:43:37
Discussion about midwives; Joanie Kelly, midwives.
SIDE A 00:43:37 -- 00:47:40
Discussion about home remedies; home remedies, eczema, salts, sulfur and molasses, cod liver oil, cures.
SIDE A ends at 00:47:40.
SIDE B 00:47:42 -- 00:48:22
Discussion about home remedies continues; home remedies, cod liver oil, cures.
SIDE B 00:48:22 -- 00:49:53
Discussion about tractors, how he gave up farming to go work at the store, and the feed mill where he had free rent; farming, tractors, farmers.
SIDE B 00:49:53 -- 00:57:30
Discussion about how he left home to go British Columbia but ending up working in a brewery as a waiter in Sudbury; Sudbury, moving, traveling.
SIDE B 00:57:30 -- 01:00:52
Discussion about various topics including working in Montreal for Northern Electric, traveling to Charlottetown, train travel, and nicknames; Northern Electric, Montreal, nicknames, traveling, trains.
SIDE B 01:00:52 -- 01:04:00
Discussion about working with Canada Packers and at the P.L. Morris Feed Mill; feed mills, Canada Packers, P.L. Morris.
SIDE B 01:04:00 -- 01:07:10
Discussion about working for Canada Packers and traveling around with the company on the roads; Canada Packers, traveling.
SIDE B 01:07:10 -- 01:12:15
Discussion about bad storms, the ice storm of 1956, and electricity; 1940s, 1956, electricity, storms, ice storms.
SIDE B 01:12:15 -- 01:17:57
A story of an Irishman meeting his brother after 45 years, a joke about an Irish cobbler, and his visit to Ireland; Ireland, traveling, jokes, Irish.
SIDE B 01:17:57 -- 01:19:46
Discussion about Ronaghan's Racetrack; Ronaghan, racetracks, races, horse races.
SIDE B 01:19:46 -- 01:25:23
Discussion about moonshine; Rose Valley, moonshine, liquor, alcohol.
SIDE B 01:25:23 -- 01:28:43
Discussion about bootleggers in Summerside and strong rum; rum, Summerside, bootleggers, bootlegging.
SIDE B 01:28:43 -- 01:29:45
Discussion about rationing during WWII; horse meat, rabbits, WWII, rationing.
SIDE B 01:29:45 -- 01:30:50
Discussion about seeing the Hindenburg fly over the Shamrock School; Shamrock School, Hindenburg.
SIDE B 01:30:50 -- 01:31:45
Discussion about his first ride on a plane; airplanes, traveling.
SIDE B 01:31:45 -- 01:34:01
Discussion about water witches and ghost stories; ghosts, ghost stories, water witches.
SIDE B 01:34:01 -- 01:35:17
Discussion about changes in his life and a story about his brother who only left the Island for the first time at the age of 57; traveling.
Tape ends at 01:35:17.
