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Show WARREN R. DECK came back with the diphtheria and gave it to the others. There were 4 lost in that family and many others in town that were lost in the diphtheria plague that they had at that time. You can see, there again, '98, 1902, you go through these old houses, you get those dates. When I got out of college, I went to work in Chicago. That was in '25, '26, '27, and '28, in that time. Well, that was the big boom in those days. Down by the---?---, the near-south side of Chicago, there were still a lot of old homes left. From the gay '90s boom days, that was the ---?---, right around the---?--- Depot. If you had seen those houses and seen what they built here. They saw these houses, they got plans from the people that had built them. They went to the sash and door factories in Chicago and got the sash and door works and the hardware and the floorings and various things they needed to copy the house. They had lots of stone there and lots of labor to work the stone and put the house together. But if you would have seen those houses there and seen these houses here, you would've seen the direct tie-in. They were all designed around about that time, the gay '90s period. That again places it there. Now, I think that you hear the talk about gaining the weal th from sheep. I think the 4 |
