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Babbie's twelfth birthday party was just getting out when I got home- about fourteen of them. She was thrilled - got a lot of nice presents. I gave her a luminous face alarm clock. A croquet set was another. Mother gave her a pretty little silver necklace with tiny bells on it that tinkle. She is so big and so pretty- is developing beautifully and we are so proud of her. Rog helped decorate the dining room, his major job being to hang balloons from the ceiling by a device of his own that permitted them to be pulled down without cutting or untying anything and Willie said he gave instructions to the girls about it in a very businesslike manner. He is a [[bird?]] too!

I got a new mixer today- it failed to work at the Employer's Store when I first handed it in (the old one, I mean) but when Heegel , the boss, tried it, it worked beautifully! But he gave me another with no argument. I had to accept an eccentric juice extractor, the [[underlined]] best [[/underlined]] of four they had on hand! How can we sell such stuff! I still suspect they work off second rate material on us at the discount although they have always denied it hotly.

The second reel of Basin Harbor movies came back today in jig time and they are [[underlined]] fine! [[/underlined]] Now to edit the two reels and make a job of them.

Erie. Pa.,
Thursday, Aug. 29.1940.
My account of Clark's estimate of three weeks to settle the 5/38 contract finally, was like a bombshell to Emmet and Don Smith this morning. They have been going ahead on machine tool commitments