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long hair. [[strikethrough]] but clearly [[/strikethrough]] looks somewhat like one of the german hayseeds in the West.- [[red underline]] I am not very enthusiastic about him as a possible acquisition [[/red underline]] but he may be in his narrow grinding way be of [[strikethrough]]
[[evident?]] [[/strikethrough]] some help in our [[strikethrough]] p [[/strikethrough]] Brooklyn problems.  But I warned Geary to put him under written pledge of secrecy and told him that if he engages him the result is certainly a gamble 
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of the Navy at special luncheon.  Mr. Craig who says knows me introduced me. [[red underline]] Admiral Usher of Brooklyn [[/red underline]] Navy Yard was suddenly called away on account [[red underline]] of explosion of Submarine E2 on which I was photographed with Edison on our last meeting of the Board. Several people killed and injured. [[/red underline]] Cause attributed to accumulating hydrogen of the Edison Storage batteries which are being tried on this boat.  Looks like poor "ad" for Edison's ^[[alkaline]] batteries.
First spoke Congressman [[red underline]] Padgett [[/red underline]] of Tennessee, chairman of Committee of Naval affairs. I was rather astonished to find where I expected to meet only a politician, that he [[strikethrough]] gave [[/strikethrough]] made an address