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Feb.21. Meeting of executive committee of [[underline]] Protal Co [[/underline]] at Peters & Williams. 2 P.M Wiechman not there, he is in Louisiana. but Benjamin is there. [[underline]] decided to close up. [[/underline]] Williams & Peters seem to be tired of the whole thing At 5 [[superscript underline]] 45 [[/superscript underline]] went to Plaza Hotel to meet Mr. deWalle belgian Consul at New Orleans went with him to University Club. Supper there. 
Feb.22. Henry Noel Potter here in Yonkers (Washington's Birthday) Told me that the women folks of the Wiechmann family are [[calumniating?]] me now after all the generosity I have shown towards Wiechman and his confounded Protal Co
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[[vertical red line in left margin]] Calumny is the weapon of the inferior and the cowards. [[/vertical red line]]
Feb.23. Nothing special. went to N.Y like usually at 2 P.M to 5P.M. 
Feb.24. [[strikethrough]] At 2P [[/strikethrough]] Experimental vacuum drier arrived in Yonkers. Then went to N.Y. Small panic in Wall Street on account of railroad freight rate discussion Bought back my 100 shares So. Pacific at 114 1/2. Had sold them a few weeks ago at 118. At 2 P.M meeting of [[underline]] Building Co of Chemists Club at Nichols [[/underline]] office. then meeting of [[underline]] Congress of applied Chemistry ^[[executive]] committee [[/underline]]. Jack and myself drove in taxi to University Club where I wanted to stay over night but no room [[disposible?]]. I stayed at Hotel Martinique

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Dr. F.G. Wiechmann was the chemist who started Portal Company. HK