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Recording Details: Kay Jelley T2 [Tape Two]:

SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:06:00 Stories about her mother's sayings; sayings, colloquialisms, idioms. 

SIDE A 00:06:00 -- 00:09:25 Discussion about making bread and toast and collecting berries; berries, bread, homemade bread, toast. 

SIDE A 00:09:25 -- 00:11:19 Discussion about cream eaters from the U.S. and a story about killing a hen for Aunt Liza; chicken, strawberries, cream. 

SIDE A 00:11:19 -- 00:13:55 Discussion about washing machines, flour bag clothes, and the value of money; flour bag clothes, washing machine, money. 

SIDE A 00:13:55 -- 00:18:02 Discussion about old letters from her sister and her father, and his death in 1936; letters, death, 1936. 

SIDE A 00:18:02 -- 00:23:09 Discussion about her parents, with a story about her mother in the hospital; sick, cancer. 

SIDE A 00:23:09 -- 00:28:18 Discussion about her mother's sayings continues; sayings, colloquialisms, idioms. 

SIDE A 00:28:18 -- 00:32:32 Discussion about Big Jim Bolger and other people with nicknames; Earring Johnny, bannock, Jim Bolger, Big Jim Bolger, nicknames, O'Leary. 

SIDE A 00:32:32 -- 47:14 Discussion about home remedies, with a stories about being ill and baby formula; bread and milk poultice, home remedies, cream of tartar, fever remedy, cold remedy, mustard plaster, bealing, scorching cotton, sore throat, iodine, goose grease, saltpetre, canker sore, cold sore, boric acid, tobacco, stuffy nose, baby formula, flour milk, midwife. 

SIDE A ends at 00:47:14.

SIDE B 00:47:42 -- 00:53:51 Discussion about home remedies continues, with mention of washing hair and pulling teeth; home remedies, seven year itch, sulfur and lard, dry scalp, dandruff, olive oil, lice, shampoo, kerosene, homemade soap, corn starch, pig fat. 

SIDE B 00:53:51 -- 01:06:31 Discussion about her work as a nurse, with a story about nursing for a sick man for 43 days straight; nursing, wages, Registered Nurse, RN, 1940. 

SIDE B 01:06:31 -- 01:09:20 Discussion about her husband Earle, with mention of courting; Christmas, presents, courting, Earle Jelley. 

SIDE B 01:09:20 -- 01:10:23 Discussion about their first car; Earle Jelley, Ford, cars. 

SIDE B 01:10:23 -- 01:13:11 Discussion about her husband Earle continues, with mention of courting, jobs, and money; Earle Jelley, jobs, courting, Passion play, money, Freeland, 1931. 

SIDE B 01:13:11 -- 01:14:46 Discussion about movies in Freeland; Freeland, movies, Cecil Dennis, Rebecca Sunnybrook Farm. 

SIDE B 01:14:46 -- 01:19:53 Discussion about dances, card games, and quiet Sundays; card games, Sundays, quiet Sundays, Earle Jelley, ice cream, Family Herald. 

SIDE B 01:19:53 -- 01:34:23 Discussion about her wedding in 1940, with mention of Earle's work as a teacher; Freeland Presbyterian Church, 1940, wedding, marriage, Acadia, Prince of Wales College, teacher training, teaching licence, honeymoon, Maude Palmer, Annie Hunter, wedding cake. 
 Tape ends at 01:34:23.

Overview:

Interviewee(s):
Jelley, Kathleen "Kay" H.

Playing Time:
01:34:23

Interview Date(s):
2003-11-27

Interview Summary:
This is the third of six tapes with Kathleen "Kay" H. Jelley of Freeland, Unionvale, and O'Leary P.E.I. In this interview Kay talks about her mother's sayings, life growing up, home remedies, her work as a nurse, her husband Earle and their wedding, as well as his work as a teacher.

Place(s) Discussed:
Freeland, PE

Time(s) Discussed:
1936, 1940, 1931

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