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To day is [[red underline]] Tag-Day [[/red underline]] in favor of Red-Cross. [[red underline]] Nina [[/red underline]] is one of the collectors. [[red underline]] Celine [[/red underline]] is captain of this section.
Took early train to Yonkers [[strikethrough]] During [[/strikethrough]] 
September 25. Busy all day here dictating, reviewing work in laboratory and telephoning [[red underline]] Gothelf [[/red underline]] has devised easy way for making [[red underline]] No. 20 from No. 11 [[/red underline]] and has been quite active altho' his program is far from finished.  [[red underline]] Hamlin [[/red underline]] also has done quite some work and partly finished his long program. [[red underline]] Lawrence [[/red underline]] too, who has been busy almost exclusively with [[red underline]] wood lacquer [[/red underline]] has quite some progress to report. Red Cross Tag Day brought in [[red underline]] $3000. [[/red underline]]
Sept 26. It has been raining all night and to day is decidedly cold. Spent almost all day with belated correspondence and with [[red underline]] Hooker - Kwanto [[/red underline]] matter. contracts. Yesterday got [[red underline]] [[strikethrough]] letter [[/strikethrough]] ^[[telegram]] of Count Lavalette [[/red underline]]
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from Paris in addition to his former letter asking whether [[strikethrough]] he [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] we can deliver him bakelite in Paris since [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] we are [[/strikethrough]] he can no longer get it [[red underline]] from Germany [[/red underline]] I answered to day in the affirmative
Sept 27 (Sunday) and decidedly cold. For first time [[strikethrough]] twook [[/strikethrough]] took walk around the garden. Grape vines are bearing abundantly this year. Very good grapes. Spent morning reading war news in Herald. [[red underline]] New [[strikethrough]] Afternoon pipe [[/strikethrough]] amber material of Traun submitted by DeMuth [[/red underline]] still shows discoloration. So does material called [[red underline]] Redmanol. [[/red underline]] 
Afternoon [[red underline]] Rossi [[/red underline]] came. talked over progress and problems of factory. [[red underline]] Thurlow [[/red underline]] has suceeded in finding manufacturer of our  [[strikethrough of insert]] our [[/strikethrough]] methods of making molding mixture which gives puncture strength of [[red underline]] 1000 volts [[/red underline]] per mil and issues extraodinarily