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but [[underlined]] the star of the evening was Reaequer [[/underlined]] who made a self confession and exposed all the tricks of lawyers in patent litigation and showed how an otherwise excellent patent law was [[line along left margin]] crippled since the Supreme Court refers all matters to a circuit judge. I hope [[/line along left margin]] all this will be published and may influence favorable legislation which will do away with this abuse. The evening was a great success and I believe that in arranging this symposium  I did good work for all chemists and inventors.
I shall write to congressman
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John E, Andrus, to urge him to [[strikethrough]] uphold [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] help favorable patent litigation. Came home
with Evans and Rebman but missed last trolley car of Park Avenue and had to go to Havey's so as to order Brougham.
While waiting in his office I was able to see the fine [[red line along left margin]] new plate glass window which has been put in place of the one I ran into some months ago.
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Feel much better this morning altho' I feel somewhat [[underlined]] the lack of necessary sleep. [[/underlined]] Dictated letters all morning [[/line along left margin]] and spent some time in lab. during the
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