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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

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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]]