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Same for [[red underline]] Acheson & Santa Fe 
This years earnings of Bakelite will be at least 640000$, [[/red underline]] even if the head company pays nothing we shall have 
    240000 from invested Securities
    300000  "   Halowax
    100000  "   Autopoint
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    640000$     not counting any profit from [[strikethrough]] European [[/strikethrough]] Foreign companies or about 18$ per share of B. Corp. [[red underline]] To me this stock of R&H therefor is worth $300, [[/red underline]] while my stock [[red underline]] "en bloc" [[/red underline]] is worth [[red underline]] 500$  
Geo B [[/red underline]] left with [[red underline]] Cornelia for Biltmore. [[/red underline]] I went with Hays and Irving Thomas inspecting houses for sale in neighborhood.
This morning early when I went to my harbor I saw in the harbor [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] next property
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Bootlegging [[/vertical annotation]]             
(Brindley Estate now occupied by Ritchie. The same bootleg) motor boat called "Little Boot" and a smaller high speed motor boat and the same woman "Marie"? the widow of a former bootlegger who had been killed in the exercise of his nefarious occupation [[strikethrough]] and. [[/strikethrough]] I saw a heap of bundles or cases of liquor on the wharf and five motor trucks near by and some young men with white sailor caps and dark blue suits, brandishing revolvers. Afterwards I read in the paper that the woman and the men had been arrested then liberated on 600$ bail. They had 640 [[strikethrough]] bundles of liquor [[/strikethrough]] cases (bundles) of liquor in the boat. This smuggling has been going on continuously ever since I came here and probably someone in the