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for my account a check for $20,000, also a check which was sent me by Eastman 
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Dillon Co for sale of stocks by that company amounting to $22051. - [[strikethrough]] 12 [[/strikethrough]] 42057.
[[underlined]] Nov. 24. Thanksgiving day. [[/underlined]] George B his wife, his youngest son [[strikethrough]] bro Brook Teddy [[/strikethrough]] [[underlined]] Freddie, [[/underlined]] stayed for dinner. - [[underlined]] Ninette Roll, Peter Roll Baekeland Roll; [[/underlined]] the son of [[underlined]] Phillip Wyman [[/underlined]] and his two daughters went back to Scarsdale for dinner. 
[[underlined]] Brooks Baekeland is at Harvard and his sister Dickie is at home with a sour stomac. [[/underlined]]
Cold dry weather and a light snowfall.
[[underlined]] George [[/underlined]] tells me he has found an excellent man at Bound Brook now assistant to Low, to [[underlined]] replace Brady. [[/underlined]]
Nov. 25. [[underlined]] Snow [[/underlined]] which began falling yesterday afternoon has developed during the night into a [[underlined]] heavy snowfall several feet thick. [[/underlined]] Many cars are left stranded and snowed in on the highways since last night. Celine had arranged a party with Nina and her children to the New York Philharmonic concert; while I had decided to pay a visit to the [[underlined]] Bakelite [[/underlined]]
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[[underlined]] exhibit at the Franklin [[strikethrough]] Institut [[/strikethrough]] Institute [[/underlined]] in Philadelphia.  We had [[underlined]] much trouble [[/underlined]] getting out of our property. 
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But real trouble began when we tried to get into the new Parkway, and had to make a large detour blocked by stranded business trucks and autos stranded since last night and now half buried in the snow; the owners having abandoned them last night.  
It is [[underlined]] very cold [[/underlined]] but no wind. [[strikethrough]] Got to [[/strikethrough]]  
Same conditions in [[underlined]] New York [[/underlined]] altho the city street cleaning cars had [[underlined]] dug narrow passage ways, [[/underlined]] thus making motor circulation possible.
Took train for [[underlined]] Philadelphia [[/underlined]] at eleven A.M. New Jersey, and other succeeding states had the same white blanket of snow. Arrived in [[underlined]] Philadelphia about noon. [[/underlined]]  Here the snow had turned into [[underlined]] slush [[/underlined]] and traffic more congested.
After light luncheon went to [[strikethrough]] Fr [[/strikethrough]] the new [[underlined]] Franklin Institute [[/underlined]] buildings and museum.  Marvelous institution. Numerous visitors, [[strikethrough]] from [[/strikethrough]] ranging from child age to adults, all interested in the many exhibits.  The [[underlined]] Bakelite Exhibit [[/underlined]] is very striking and seems to attract most attention. It is so large and is provided with a seated lecture room; where

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