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procure a bottle of Cliquot's best, which was the nearest to Jamaica ginge[[stirkethrough]] e [[/strikethrough]]r procurable that [[strikethrough]] early [[/strikethrough]] hour in the morning. This didn't help so an hour later when one restaurant opened to do a rus[[?]] unexpected business, the gang went in to eat.

[[strikethrough]] Buck [[/strikethrough]] Clayt joined Weavers later, contemporaneously with a visit from Mattie Laird who was then in New York. 

To make a long story short the Eskimo Pie business became involved in all sorts of difficulties and the "modus operundi" that was to solve the everlasting bread and butter question so that there would be a surplus with which to build Wacos, was "shot". [[circled]] HHattie and Little Buck [[strikethrough]decided [[/strikethrough]] to returned  to Medina, Ohio, after a visit with old friends at Rochester, [[/circled]] N.Y. Buck and [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] Clayt joined Sam at Medina where once again the building of Wacos was to be taken up. [[the circled region has an arrow pointing to this region]]

Spring had arrived and Hattie and little Buck arrived one balmy evening at Medina, met by Buck and Sam. As soon as Buck had greeted his family, he said, "Kiss Sam, Babe,", all of which was xxxxxx/a unanimous pleasure. It was good to see Sam after the longest separation the gang had had. Weavers had a room in the home of a German family. Mrs. Schmidt was one of these rare women who retain their girlish charm with the quiet dignity of a woman. The location was near the shop. The shop was one-half of a small factory. Medina [[strikethrough]] was [[/strikethrough]] is a beautiful little country town and the ease and simplicity of the almost entirely outdoor life, spent there, improved Little Buck's health and that of Hattie, who had been very ill within the year. The factory force of The Weaver Aircraft Company in Medina, which was the year of 1922, consisted of Buck Weaver, Sam Junkin, Clayton [[strikethrough]] Br[[?]]kte [[/strikethrough]] Brukner, Herb Junkin and Bud Schulinberger. Having little or no housework for encumbrance, Hattie happily spent her days in the shop. Little Buck wore overalls and didn't get dirty, he got filthy, and was happy! Sam would give little Buck a Prince Albert can, which Little Buck spent hours filling and emptying with piles of sawdust. He was solemn as an owl, revealing by his questions an unusual understanding of mechanics and building. These visits humorously remarked upon three years later by Sam, evidently had some beneficially restraining influence. Sam said he'd just about have an artistic line of profanity ready, (then happen to remember that Hattie might be curled up in the Ford, and (being small anyhow / so hardly discernable,xxxand & ordinarily completely out of sight when curled up reading the Saturday Evening Post) [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] he would have to let all that "art" go into puffing on his pipe and walking around for a few minutes. Sam worked at his drawing board almost entirely. Buck and Clayt working on the actual building. The Wacos started in this shop were an outgrowth with improvements of a "Jennie". It is believed that this was the first use of metal tubingxxx in a fusilage [[fuselage]] of a private ship. The last section of the fusilage [[fuselage]] was wood spliced to the tubing. This splicing was an occasion for Hattie

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I could not read some of the text that was crossed-out, so I left it as [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]]. Should the circled section with the arrow be removed from the transcription? Fill in [[?]] at beginning