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let us build it on the other shore of the Nepperhan Creek (Saw Mill River) so that if thru fire or otherwise something happens to our more overcrowded little wooden factory, we will be well prepared against Eastman competition and our customers will not be compelled to go to Eastman.
[[red underline]] Foreseeing the probability that Eastman some day might buy out the paper manufacturer in Europe I had since two years done unendurable laboratory [[/red underline]] work to find out whether it [[red underline]] was true as everybody said, that there were only 2 spots on Earth where [[/red underline]] 
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suitable raw paper for [[red underline]] photographic purposes [[/red underline]] could be made namely at Malmedy (by Steinbach) and in the Department de l'Fiere (France) by Blancet Kleber freres. [[red underline]] Eastman had relied on the positive assurance of his incompetent underpaid chemists and technologists, that indeed this was the case. [[/red underline]] Thus did he conclude to master the two concerns and [[red underline]] freeze me out. [[/red underline]] 
We had been experimenting with a raw paper submitted to us by [[red underline]] Mr. Curtis of Boston [[/red underline]] who I believe was the [[red underline]] son of a former mayor of Boston. [[/red underline]] and who in [[red underline]] vain tried to sell his paper [[/red underline]] to Eastman and others