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gets along splendidly. The pride and hope of his mother and of his pa. ^[[inserted note at end of entry for Feb. 8 that extends onto margin of following page]] [[red underline]] Royal [[/red underline]] Baking powder Co. put new retainer of $450 for 3 months - with nice letter of president[[/inserted note]] 
Feb 9 Very cold winter. Outing cold in motor car. [[red underline]] Celine [[/red underline]] and I drove to Cortland. She to [[red underline]] preside meeting of Ladies Committee. International Congress at Chemists [[/red underline]] Club. I to office. ^[[Glenn]] Williamson lunched with me at Drug Club talked over ways for arranging interest in matrix patent 
[[note in margin]] [[McCargo?]] [[/note in margin]] Then Craven of Pennsylvania Laboratory Co came to see me. Says Liquid A15 OK for his [[game?]] boxes. Made less price of 25 [[underlined superscript]] ¢  [[/underlined superscript]] per lb in [[ten?]] lots [[?]] [[annually?]] which seems satisfactory. Then went to meeting of [[red underlinel]] Presidents of Inter- [[/red underline]]
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[[red underline]] national Congress at Chemists [[/red underline]] Club. Thru at 6 P.M then general [[dinner?]] at 7. P.M. More than 90 diners. many unable to accommodate. All rooms rented for the night. [[red underline]] Weston [[/red underline]] dined with me. Brought me one of his new [[red underline]] amp voltmeters. splendid instrument, molded of Bakelite. [[/red underline]] Joint meeting of Electrochemical. Am. Chem. and Soc. Chem. Industry on Chemical Research. I was asked to speak offhand. took as subject,
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[[red underline]] "The Tragedy of Chemistry." [[/red underline]] The impotence of chemistry to go further in its fundamental laws on [[red underline]] account of the imperfections [[/red underline]] of the balance which has
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