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condition seems critical [[underlined in red]] Kate, our maid, too is in bed ill with influenza [[/underlined in red]] but her case [[underlined in red]] seems slight thus [[/underlined in red]] far.
Nov. 9. I went to [[strikethrough]] Snug [[/strikethrough]] Yonkers [[strikethrough]] to Albert' [[/strikethrough]] by Subway and Trolley [[underlined in red]] Albert's wife worse. Katie seems doing well. [[/underlined in red]] Dictated some letters to Miss Evans. Saw Albert [[left margin, vertical red pencil]] Influenza [[/margin, vertical red pencil]] rush in with automobile at full speed, bringing two cylinders of oxygen for his [[underlined in red]] dying wife. [[/underlined in red]] There are two nurses. This is a sad tragedy. His wife was a clean, orderly, woman and an excellent mother a model of her kind. A week ago she was watchfully nursing her husband and children while they were critically ill. [[underlined in red]] This influenza is a very serious matter. Miss Evans hesitates [[/underlined in red]] using the telephone after Albert
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has used it. Lina our cook has her hands full cooking for Albert's family and the two nurses.
[[underlined in red]] Kaiser of Germany abdicates.
Ebert made Chancellor.
[[Two large red exclamation points in left margin]]
Bavarian king deposed.
Republic proclaimed in Bavaria
Red flag showing up everywhere [[/underlined in red]] in German empire. 
Nov 10. [[underlined in red]] Jennie died. 
Kronprinz Palace taken [[/underlined in red]] he fled. Mutiny of soldiers. [[underlined in red]] Kaiser like a coward flies to Holland with his suite and food. Krupp von Bohlen [[/underlined in red]] and his wife Bertha arrested [[underlined in red]] by the revolting workmen of Essen. [[/underlined in red]] All this news came late in evening over the ticker. at the University Club. [[underlined in red]] I was watching [[/underlined in red]] the tape alone. There were only very [[underlined in red]] few men at the Club and they seemed to be unaware of [[/underlined in red]]