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arrived only [[red underline]] at past 10.A.M 
Urged ^[[to]] him earlier habits.[[/red underline]] Wallace Cohoe here at about 12.M says things are taking shape in [[red underline]] Toronto [[/red underline]]. Took 12 [[underline superscript]] 30 [[/underline superscript]] P.M train to Perth Amboy made a run of [[red underline]] solid A for washing. [[/red underline]] (100 kilos) This is the first run of the kind in P.A. [[red underline]] Rossi [[/red underline]] has started cleaning up since my talk yesterday. Matters still very much unsettled.
Returned again via Staten Island after 7 P.M
April 12. Here all morning in lab. then to office then to Brooklyn factory of Johns Manville Asbestos Co [[strikethough]] intervie [[/strikethough]] with [[Cuttery?]]. Interview
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with Jewett about amphibole asbestos. I find that there is no such asbestos on the market here except Sall Mountain which is not suitable.
Returned with 5.P.M train.
April 13. Went to office about 2 P.M met [[red underline]] Geo. Lufbery Jun. [[/red underline]] and his partner. declined to give them monopoly for valves and similar goods. told them we cannot afford to enter into the complication of it etc. They finally saw my good reasons.
[[red underline]] Gotthelf is back in Yonkers [[/red underline]]  [[in margin written vertically:]] from Perth Amboy[[/in margin]] reports good [[red underline]] pipe stems. [[/red underline]]
But [[red underline]] slow delivery.[[/red underline]]
[[strikethrough]] At [[/strikethrough]] Supper at home of [[red underline]] Jaques Loeb. [[/red underline]] met there [[red underline]] Svante Arrheniuss, [[/red underline]] who