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150 condition (See "History of University Club") May 14. Home all day. Orders keep on [[red underline]] coming in well. [[/red underline]] Main trouble now is our [[red underline]] supply of raw material. [[/red underline]] For [[red underline]] [[plerrol?]] at $1.70 [[/red underline]] there is no hope. but we are learning to use [[red underline]] cresol [[/red underline]] to good advantage. Concluded to buy more of it as a matter of security. The young people of [[red underline]] Yonkers [[/red underline]] have organized a [[red underline]] Society Circus [[/red underline]] for collecting funds for St. John's Hospital. [[red underline]] Ninn is[[/red underline]] dressed in a clown and runs with other girls of the better class in the street parade of circus. Also a wagon-cage with a "lion" and lion-tamer-lady. Evening [[red underline]] Celine [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] wro? [[strikethrough]] went with me to the circus. [[red underline]] George [[/red underline]] was [[red underline]] chief usher. [[/red underline]] With his evening suit he looks taller than ever. and makes a good impression [[end page]] [[start page]] 151 Circus was very enjoyable. Good natured, orderly, democratic crowd. May 15. Spent all morning dictating and usual routine work. Afternoon drove out alone thru parks, then visited [[red underline]] Jacobi [[/red underline]] then supper at University Club and back home about 9:30 PM. May 16 1915 (Sunday) Children late in bed. [[red underline]] They say circus [[/red underline]] last night great success. Room filled to overcrowding, big receipts. Some [[red underline]] of the cowboys [[/red underline]] who are delivering Western horses here [[red underline]] at wharf for the allies [[/red underline]] arranged impromptu performance with [[red underline]] young mexicans [[/red underline]] who are with them. Lassoing and roping horses etc. Rainy and cold weather. Stayed home reading papers. and sitting around the fire. May 17. Another cold rainy day.
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[[red underline]] Jacobi [[/red underline]]