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enthusiastic and prosperous beer saloon keeper in Newark wanted to get the "swellest and newest thing afloat" ^[[insertion]] as interior decoration [[/insertion]] for his new saloon.  concluded that mahogany furniture, and nickel plated brass fittings and plate mirrors would be enhanced by walls coated with imitation marble-celluloid sheets.  Felt very proud of his place until some day his awning got afire and this set the fire to the celluloid coated walls and made the place look [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] very differently after a few seconds.
Has taken out more than 300 patents.  Hyatt roller bearing. and lately a sugar cane press of which he gave me photo -
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graphs are among his inventions.  He's still eagerly at work and very much interested in new things.  He started in conjunction with some friends who are in the billiard or ivory trade a [[underlined]] billiard ball factory [[/underlined]] and wants to try to use Bakelite and stop using celluloid for this purpose.  I showed him my Bakelite samples and explained my process which he has already read in Electro-Chemical industry. Seemed much impressed with my work and understood immediately its possibilities.  Thurlow was present together with Mr. Swan. promised him a sample of Solid A and other materials so that he