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showed him also first results of our attempts to make phonographic records.
In the evening after supper Celine Nina George and myself drove in the car to Yonkers. Deafening noise, rattles trumpets etc. like pandemonium! Will [[Andrews?]] and his wife were there also with their car.  Children seemed to enjoy the deafening fun I did not. Came back home before results were known
Novemb 4. Overwhelming victory for Taft and Hughes. George came in my room early with the newspaper
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giving the interesting news. This vindicates Hughes and Roosevelt in the eyes of the public and shows them their warm support Worked all day in laboratory Succeeded in making some phonograph records that were almost perfect. Rather cold.
[[underlined]]Nov. 5. [[/underlined]] Spent almost all day with theoretical work on indirect synthesis of Bakelite and Novolak
My work becomes more and more interesting even from a theoretical standpoint and I am finally able to show conclusively the difference between Novolak and Bakelite
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