Vol. 3-Interview-Timko

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A. Versano Anne Timko House interior + architecture 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm 8/16/72 1915 - The year she married + moved in here.

This Back St. home consisted of a kitchen, front room + upstairs bedroom. There was only a shed aagainst the kitchen, and the summer kitchen or shandy. There was also an open porch ( boards) on front of the shed, and a board walk leading from the shed to shandy.

Shed(underlined): 6 ft. long _

At first it was small, built for protection against rain. It had a door to the outside. Later, husband built a bigger one. It had a slanted roof, Then she had a bench with buckets of water, a little table, a cupboard, chairs, some pans stacked on top fo each other. Toward the last she had a small shelf bor a clock in the corner ( Western.) Worked in shed: Wash dishes, prepare meals. When it was hot.

Kitchen(underlined):

Had a coal stove (where hole is) a ( word crossed out) table on W end + chairs. Walls were not decorated, but were papered. It had a cloth ceiling. In kitchen kept burlap (bug?? ????????????) flour.

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Used as a front room [?] bedroom by her + husband (till 1939) (crossed out writing - Used by her + husband) the double bed was facing the [c? or s?}hair way on the W wall. A (crossed out writing - vanity table) "buffet" [sideboard table]* (crossed out writing - with a mirror in the middle) was on the E wall. 2 chairs were there. Holy pictures were on the wall: Sacred Heart Sacred Heart of Mary St. Joseph Infant Jesus At first, there was plain boards. Later, carpet rags were put around the room, from door way to N wall. Walls were papered, ceiling was cloth Windows in both rooms had window shades Later, they got curtains (lace curtains) These she made herself. Kitchen window was a small 6 - pane window. There was a stoop porch there when she moved in. Husband Joe found some boards & built the present structure, in the 60's.

The present kitchen was built in 1950 by Joe, as was the indoor bathroom + washing machine room. * This is now in middle room. See photos, 8/10/72

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Upstairs Ceiling was papered around the beams, walls were papered so was the chumneys. Floor had rag carpets around mostly near the bed where you walk. Before, the S wall was 3 ft or 4 ft closer to [center] of room. It had 2 beds (1 bed at first), a cradle for the baby. Storage boxes for clothes and things in corners. Room was lit by a Kerosene lamp. In Kitchen, a lamp was kept on the table, a nickel lamp. In bedroom downstairs, there was no set place for a lamp, it was seldom needed. Most people had lamp racks on the door frame.

Clothes were stored back of the door, and on a board nailed on the W wall.

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Angela Varesano Date (?) Anne Timko [???] [??] - 12:30 pm. 7/26/72

[??] remedy ( bracket down next two paragraphs )

Used black salve [Ointment of [??] , 20% ] to draw pus from a wound that has festered. This deep [??] wound open [??] it heals right, that [?] so it heals from the bottom upward. [?] to get it in drugstores in Freeland.

[??] wound, to draw the pus [?] bread in the milk warmed on [??] apply like a polultice + bandage it. This will draw out the pus + help it heal.

Some people use to used grass from the garden - a kind of feathery weed They use to wet it + squeeze with fingers to soften it + get the juice out [??] right on the wound + bandage it. The [?] to heal it.

Flax seed poultice was also used. Remembers her daughter Anna [ ? ] getting hurt at playground on sight of [??] - her nose was bleeding + head wash[?}. The girl was about 3 years old. The girl complained about her hand the day she was supposed to be in the school Christmas play; the compl[?} was on her finger, which became infected. Anne took her to the [?] the day after Christmas

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Doctor said to put on a flaxseed poultice . Her hand blistered. Her hand was swollen up to the elbow, + went up to her shoulder. ( words crossed out) [??] + her brother took the child to [?] for treatment at the doctor's he [?] wet turkish towels on arm [?] to help keep swelling down and gave a prescription for a drug [?] for some medicine. Child was in hospital for a month. If the [?] was a boil or a little cut, the poultice would have helped but not for a big infection. Flaxseed poultice: (underlined) Cook flaxseed in a pan with butter + [?] water, till it gets soft. Used butter in there so it wouldn't stick to the wound. Then apply it to the festering wound, directly. This way, if there's something wet then the wound doesn't close up from the top + seal in the pus; it heals from the bottom up + the pus comes out. When the top closes + the bottom isn't healed up. Use it when the infection is bad or serious, so it needs to be drained by a doctor. Then bandage it on. Change it when the[?] is getting dry + the poultice is drying out.

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