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Celine at Gotham Hotel.
Sept. 11. Meeting [[red underline]] Bakelite [[/red underline]] directors. Everybody present. My proposal accepted to make [[red underline]] part payment of bonus to employees.[[/red underline]]
Evening went to see a war play [[red underline]] "Friendly Enemies," [[/red underline]] which has much success and depicts conditions in German [[strikethrough]] circles [[/strikethrough]] American families.
Sept. 12. At home all day. [[red underline]] James Casselti, my Italian Gardner, [[/red underline]] has been sent to factory so as to supply [[red underline]] at least one more trusted man to our forces. [[/red underline]] With his frail constitution I have no doubt he can make himself more useful for war purposes in [[red underline]] manufacturing Bakelite than to serve as a soldier. [[/red underline]]
Sept. 13. [[red underline]] Excellent news [[/red underline]] 
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[[red underline]] from France. Pershing [[/red underline]] and our boys have taken [[red underline]] St. Mihiel [[/red underline]] and the saillant which has remained in the hands of the Germans for so many years, and about 13000 prisoners.
Sept. 14. Mr. [[red underline]] Register [[/red underline]] of Philadelphia here to ask my advice about one of his men who says he can make [[red underline]] diamonds. [[/red underline]] From the information he furnishes I am very skeptical.
Last Wednesday, [[red underline]] Joe Fuller one of our engineers came to meet me at the office [[/red underline]] and says that altho' he is exempt from military service as being an engineer of the [[red underline]] Bakelite [[/red underline]] Co. and the support of [[red underline]] wife and child, desires to join the Army or Navy [[/red underline]] as he feels he wants to [[red underline]] do more [[/red underline]] Explained to him the