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Powder Co.

April 6. Awakened in [[red underline]] Louisville [[/red underline]] (Kentucky) The rainy, foggy day gave a still more [[red underline]] dreary appearance to this gray city [[/red underline]] with its illkept, dirty, sordid looking surroundings.  My lungs are decidedly better and it looks as if I shall be able to give my lecture tomorrow
the landscape in [[red underline]] Kentucky [[/red underline]] looks just [[red underline]] as wintry as New York [[/red underline]]
Met a trace of green.- Rolling well cultivated land - few woods, decidedly less than along the Hudson.  Hilly country also some pastures.  Wooden cottages rather flimsy and now and then an old log cabin still doing service as storehouse.
Arrived at [[red underline]] Cincinnati. [[/red underline]] Approaches have appearance of neglect, [[strikethrough]] and sordity so wh [[/strikethrough]] sordid, ram-shackle structures, dirty streets
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Then again as a contrast we pass along a well asphalted wide street with the big and substantial buildings of Procter and Gamble soap works in the distance.  An hour later I arrived in [[red underline]] Dayton, [[/red underline]] Ohio and drove to the Hotel in a Ford Taxicab for which the low price of 25 cents was charged to me.  Hotel Algonquin  Swan had received a suite of rooms that looked rather dark but is in keeping with general tone of hotel
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Got shortly after visit of Mr. [[red underline]] Chryst [[/red underline]] chief engineer of Delco Co and Mr. [[red underline]] Hunt [[/red underline]] the head of their research department who came to take me around but I asked to let me recuperate until tonight.
After lunch a good nap then went to Engineers Club where [[red underline]] Swan [[/red underline]] was arranging my exhibit and shortly after Mr. [[red underline]] Kettering [[/red underline]] Vice President of Delco, and originator of this enterprise [[strikethrough]] came [[/strikethrough]]
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Transcription Notes:
William A. Chryst was an early associate of Charles Kettering at the Delco Co.