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to 10 [[underlined]] 20 [[/underlined]] A.M train.
Returned records I do not want. Lunch with Dr. Frank and one of engineers of Portal Telegraph Co at Drug Club. Took 5 [[underlined]] 15 [[/underlined]] P.M train home.
Jan.26. Lewis drove me to 10 [[underlined]] 20 [[/underlined]] P.M train. Lunched at Drug Club with [[underlined in red]] [[Brock?]], Seabury and Hasslacher [[/underlined in red]]. They want more money for their enterprise and besides want monopoly for rubber - Bakelite. 
Took train to Perth Amboy at 3 [[underlined]] 40 [[/underlined]] P.M. Foggy rainy day. Was glad to see that [[underlined in red]] Rossi has done excellent work. [[/underlined in red]] and that we shall
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have good installation pan is there and [[underlined in red]] Rossi [[/underlined in red]] thinks will be ready within two weeks.[[underlined in red]] Paper machine [[/underlined in red]] and other machinery [[underlined in red]] only partly installed. [[/underlined in red]] Bakelizer and small still is ready. [[strikethough]] back [[/strikethough]] Came back in N.Y about 8P.M. took supper at Mouquin. Then met [[underlined in red]] Penneman [[/underlined in red]]of Baltimore and went with him to University Club. [[underlined in red]] Penneman [[/underlined in red]]asks me whether I will accept membership in some kind of committee for utilizing a research endowment fund of [[underlined in red]] John Hopkins University. [[/underlined in red]] I declined because there's too much work to attend to. Home late. 12 [[underlined]] 35 [[/underlined]] P.M.
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Transcription Notes:
From AMNH: "The Bakelizer was used by Dr. Baekeland around 1909. It was dubbed "Old Faithful" by its early operators."