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went to nearby [[red underlined]] Harvard Club [[/red underlined]] where I addressed the [[red underlined]] Harvard chemists at [[/red underlined]] their annual dinner. Several old friends there 
Spoke about work and problems of [[red underlined]] Naval Board and had most enthusiastic reception. [[/red underlined]]
^[[Pennock]] [[red underlined]] Pennock [[/red underlined]] says that before the war in [[red underlined]] 1914 [[/red underlined]] the U.S production of Soda - Ash amounted to [[red underlined]] 850000 tons [[/red underlined]] while now [[strikethrough]] in 19 [[/strikethrough]] by 1917 this will have increased to [[red underlined]] 1450000 tons. [[/red underlined]]
At [[red underlined]] Harvard Club [[/red underlined]] noted many students in [[strikethrough]] soldier [[/strikethrough]] [[red underlined]] Kaki [[/red underlined]] soldiers uniform they had been called in for militia duty on [[red underlined]] Mexican Border [[/red underlined]] on account of acute condition which has
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developed of late, since [[red underlined]] Carranza's [[/red underlined]] troops have killed some american soldiers and are keeping others as prisoners.- I noticed also four or five men, probably alumni who had been celebrating too much and who were decidedly drunk.
June 20. Clear beautiful day. Went to meet [[red underlined]] Prof. Lamb at old chemical laboratory. [[/red underlined]] The whole campus has air of festivity, lamps and festoons everywhere and everything being arranged for celebrating class day. We went to call on [[red underlined]] Theodore Richards [[/red underlined]] in his recently erected [[red underlined]] Wolcott Gibbs Laboratory [[/red underlined]] donated by [[red underlined]] Morris Loeb [[/red underlined]] and his brother sometime before his death. [[red underlined]] Richards [[/red underlined]]

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