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Oct. 4 (Sunday) Spent all morning on ION rearranging charts etc in my cabin 
Mrs. Baskerville in Yonkers for luncheon.
[[underline]] Oct 5 [[/underline]] Dictated my financial report and plans
Mrs. [[underline]] Kirk Brown was killed yesterday [[/underline]] in an automobile accident [[underline]] Kirk Brown driving. [[/underline]]
For lunch at Century, for supper at University Club
[[underline]] Oct 6 [[/underline]] Went to N.Y Engineering Co in Yonkers to show them how to mend my gasoline tank for ION.
Then went shopping for packing for man holes.
All day at office.
[[underline]] Socony burner people are [[/underline]] [[strikethrough]] keeping [[strikethrough]] not attending to finishing their job. 
[[left margin]] heating for Snug Rock 
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gnant letter about the clumsy careless, unskilled workmen they employ
[[underline]] Oct. 7. [[/underline]] All day at office at noon lunch with members of [[underline]] Cruising Club [[/underline]] at White Horse Tavern, 114 W. [[strikethrough]] 5 [[/strikethrough]] 45 str
[[underline]] Oct 8. [[/underline]] All day [[underline]] working on boat [[/underline]] while Dick is shopping hardware. Tank being fitted in Yonkers.
Oct 9. Rainy day. Dick & Jim & myself finishing hand holes in gasoline tank 
[[underline]] Oct 10 Violent N.W. gale and very cold weather [[/underline]] near freezing 
All day on ION while tank is being [[strikethrough]] replaced [[/strikethrough]] put in position Cold windy job! Hope we wont strike such weather next week when [[underline]] I intend to start South. [[/underline]]
Oct 11 1925 (Sunday). A morning's hectic work with Dick