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he hooked up a small pump which discharged a 1/2 pint for each turn of the wheel, he would start the pump in the evening and in morning the tank would be full that solved the water situation. Dad had one wagon and supplied the farmers in the nearby community, in the fall of the year Dad had trouble getting back his beer bottles there was no deposit at that time, they would use the bottles for catsup, the bottles had a patent stopper with a rubber washer it made a perfect bottle for this use. Dad had his own wooden beer boxes, he had a branding iron made with Joe Gunther, Elmont L.I. on it, he would heat it in a furnace and stamp his name on the end of

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