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Mary Zurko / Margaret Mahoney 8/1/72

Children ( circled )
Mary's Zurko's mother was blamed for her last
2 children (twins) who were miscarried
into the mgmt pail (underlined) (!) - It's darn good
for you - you only went to Hazleton
for nonsense, people said. She actually
went to shop for her kids.
Young kids
Used to hitch rides on ole Beer wagons
or any itinerant merchant who passed
through. Especially favored were wagons
going to Freeland or Hazleton.

Remedies( circled)
Every January - sulphur & molasses tonic

If you got a cut, put a broad leaf from
a plant on cut to stop bleeding &
cleanse it.

If you had a carbuncle, you got pine
sap(pitch) & mix w/ fels-naphtha soap
to make a paste. Apply to carbuncle
to get the core of the infection out.

Flax seed used to make a poultice - put
flax seed in hot water to make it.

Some people said they "had to have a bottle
of beer to make me strong." Women especially
drank a bottle before doing garden work.