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buzzing with activity [[strikethrough]] Took [[/strikethrough]] Arranged immediate meetig with Jacobi my money backer and partner 
Told him about the results of my conference and urged immediate building of a 3 story frame building to be erected on the other side of our little stream. (Saw Mill River or Nepperhan River) so as to protect us 
1/ against probability of a fire which might destroy our highly combustible factory buildings
2/ For increasig our manufacturing facilities and the manufacture of [[strikethrough]] our [[/strikethrough]] my new film.
3/ Not to loose a day until the building and
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equipment were complete. My other partner Albert G. C. Hahn, whose laziness and [[strikethrough]] p [[/strikethrough]] pretentious were a burden to us, had been sent to Chicago to live there and we paid him his board and expenses to get rid of his depressing personality. All this had occurred after I got tired with this incompetent pretentious man interfering with my work. He had become a nuisance by his meddling and laziness since the first days he joined us 
Took great airs, referring to "My Estate" and to his fathers "Estate" etc, when he never had [[strikethrough]] $2000 even to pay [[/strikethrough]] beyond $2000 as an initial payment for