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In the evening cooler
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July 19 [[underline]] Great excitement for me this morning when opening 14 tubes with different [[/underline]] Bakalite compounds. Some of them. Lithopone - (Meerschaum) Cotton - Ermeric - Lampblack. Graphite ( new pencil composition) Glass wool [[^ wool]] (insulators) seem very promising (See notes)[[additional later note - Laboratory book]]
Have sent George to Am. Express Co for draft $100 for mother. 
At 7. P.M I drove Celine and the children to New York Central Station for the Adirondack Express.  They are going to the Adirondack League Club at Little Moose. It was a very hot day in New York not the slightest breeze and the roads seemed hazy and
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smoky with a fine dust laden atmosphere. The red setting sun at 125th street [[strikethrough]]breeze[[strikethrough]] bridge gave the Hudson the appearance of a [[in margin - stagnant]] red molten mass. [[strikethrough]]of ? stagnant [[/strikethrough]]  Lewis and I drove home and arrived here about midnight. Met Mr. & Mrs. Bianchi near their house with a neighbor friend and together took a little drive through Jerome Ave. the woods and Lowerre and back arriving home at 12. at night. found Mr Thurlow in lab. fixing some of his motor parts
July 20 A hazy sultry rainy sticky day. Started early in laboratory and stayed there until dinner time. In the evening read "The man of Sorrows" by Hubbard.
July 12 Sunday, A splendid sunny bright day, not too warm. Worked all day in laboratory on Bakalite
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