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line thick with cloth The sound is not inforced merely in 
the Direction of the axis but in all directions within 
furnished or not with a flare  Try this by Echo  The flare produces the same effect on a trumpet the effect is not well understood 
[[image - hand-drawn in ink - three ear trumpet shapes]]
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[[page number in pencil]] 5
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[[Buy?]] Lightfoot ordains that petroleum is a solvent 
for lard oil.
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The name of the director of the Manhatten oil company 
is Mr [[Mollby?]]
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Sept 14th 1866 paid Dr [[Buist?]] for trumpets 
$33 50/100 charges to Board 
(I never got my money for this Sept 25 1874)

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typed inforced as shown in notes, with dotted "i"