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00:00:03 - Location of clay deposits in the ponds, took off black topsoil. Process of hauling the clay out of the ponds.

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00:01:20 - Special sand from Degrandgagnage family in Dyckesville was hauled down for mixing with the clay.

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00:02:01 - Amounts of water in the ponds and winter snow melt. Had risen into the basement twice in Anna's life there.

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00:05:28 - Frank's grandmother died the year after the Peshtigo fire. Since the new addition had just been built on the house and it wasn't finished, her body was kept there for a week because they were locked in by a blizzard. When they did take her body, it was in a sleigh, and they could go directly across the fields since all the fences were covered. Her body was buried off away from the rest because none of the gravestones could be found in the snow.

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00:08:19 - Grandma was pregnant at the time of the Peshtigo fire, so they planned on putting her in the cistern if the rest had to make a run for it.

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00:08:46 - The fire never made it to the Ausloos farm. only as far as the Robinsonville Chapel. Cleared fields slowed the fires' progress.

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00:09:42 - This fire on the east side of the bay was thought to have originated in a Green Bay or Cedar Creek saw mill near Green Bay. It was the same time as the Peshtigo fire, but wasn't actually a connection directly. Many other fires scattered through the peninsula.

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00:11:36 - Many clothes were sent over from Europe to help the fire survivors. Since Grandma was pregnant she went into Green Bay to pick up the wardrobe because they required proof to pick up baby clothes. Arranged by a relief committee.

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00:12:27 - Old wardrobe upstairs in the house came from Green Bay at the time of the fire. It was so big it had to be broken apart to bring it into the house.

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00:14:06 - Location of outhouse at different times.

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00:14:59 - Never had any doors on the back of the house, south side. The addition was built on for making beer, not as a summer kitchen. It was built when their uncles were only 15 and 16, so the south side wall was built so high because Grandma was worried about the boys nailing rafters up at the peak.

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00:17:26 - Location of other sheds. The pumphouse, machine shed, garage, etc.

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00:18:52 - Use of the two different barns. Older barn was used as a threshing floor, young stock barn. Later the threshing floor was bricked up on either end and used for a chicken coop. Floor in the chicken coop was made of cedar blocks with the end grain up, making it long lasting, but hard to clean.

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00:21:45 - Spent $250 for the original 40 acres, bought from a Landwehr, who was a land agent, who had purchased it from the government.

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00:25:22 - Grandpa hung around the courthouse a lot. He spoke nine languages and could read seven, so could mix with everyone. Therefore, he found out he could get an additional twenty acres of tax delinquent land for twenty dollars.

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00:26:44 - Location of other gardens around the house.

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00:27:59 - Since Frank was born on the farm some of the land hadn't been cleared, yet, and he was even the first to plow 7-8 acres after blasting out the pine stumps.

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00:29:09 - Grandpa Ausloos was married twice.

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