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His paper was [[red underline]] hopelessly unfit for photographic [[/red underline]] purposes and had been rejected repeatedly by the Eastman technologists. I here saw my chance. I [[red underline]] located the causes of the unfitness of the paper and went myself to the Paper Mill in the [[/red underline]] Berkshires, I have now forgotten the names of the owners and its location) One of the men connected with it, was I believe a certain [[red underline]] Mr. Eaton or Easton. Curtis was the president [[/red underline]] of the Company which sold the kind of paper intended for photographic purposes. [[red underline]] This paper was hopelessly unfit for our purposes, [[/red underline]] Besides metallic impurities and lack of
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homogeneity its [[strikethrough]] size [[/strikethrough]] ^[[sizing]] was [[strikethrough]] hope [[/strikethrough]] totally unsuited for the delicate chemical properties of silver chloride or silver bromide. I went to the paper mill on several occasions to discuss this matter and sometimes went there to make a run at night which I could supervise. It was bitter cold and heavy snow. - [[red underline]] Went there by sled from the station. [[/red underline]] After I studied the question and saw that the main problem for me was to eliminate the metallic impurities and still more important the sizing of the paper I concluded that I was on dangerous ground and that after introducing the needed improvements that company might sell out to Eastman or other competitors. - So instead of putting my efforts in improving the [[strikethrough]] size [[/strikethrough]] sizing by introducing it directly to the paper-pulp mass as it came out of the