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J: You were saying that your father went back to the printing company
 at night.

C: He walked there.

J: He actually did the printing work himself?

C: Absolutely.

J: Was he an office manager?

C: He did everything. He got the business, he printed it, he got it
 out. He did have a bindery and a woman that worked for him for
 years and years. I can't recall her name. She was out at the
 printing office in DeLeon Springs. What did they call her?

J: Dewey Finelli?

C: Finelli. That's right. She was his right-hand bower. She did the
 bindery work. He worked that up into quite a big establishment.
 We got lots of printing out of Jacksonville, and not so much Tampa,
 I don't believe. But he was always going to Jacksonville and
 would get these liquor contracts; we did liquor labels. We made a
 terrible mistake once. He did this big job for a church and a big
 job for the liquor people, and the people that stuffed the envel-
 opes sent the liquor advertisements- to the Christian people
 (laughter) and, anyways the liquor got the Christians, and the
 Christians got the liquor. And I don't think he collected for
 either one (laughter). We went through a bad time with that I re-
 member.

J: That was a temperance league or something?

C: That's right.

J: How far was the office where he worked from the home?

C: Well, the office is on Wisconsin Avenue, and then you come to Rich,
 then New York. It was four long blocks, and I mean that's a long
 block from New York to Howry.

J: When was the business moved to Wisconsin Avenue?

C: Oh, that's where it originated, down in the hole. That's my first
 recollections. You see, I was born in 1900, and he'd been in the
 printing business, I guess, ever since he married Momma, when they
 were out towards Stetson. That was way out of town then. Stetson
 estate had a great big orange grove and they built a shed over it,
 to protect it. And my father's estate was actually homesteaded.
 That's what he did, he got it by homesteading it. His homestead
 connected with the Stetson estate on the south, which is now Spring
 Garden Avenue.