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[[left margin vertical]] Dr. Moore who is at the head of our [[strikethrough]] Bountin [[/strikethrough]] plant, in [[strikethrough]] Boundon [[/strikethrough]] Bloomfield an [[underlined]] excellent [[/underlined]] man.
decidedly better run than ever heretofore.
I was told that George had visited the plant a few days ago. The men who had been brought in our organisation by Redman and who had given some of them [[strikethrough]] pros [[/strikethrough]] prerogatives ^[[for]] which they were not qualified. and looked less assertive or bossy then before.
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[[underlined]] November 14 [[/underlined]] Went too early. But had caught an unpleasant cold, causing pain in my throat and ejecting unpleasant saliva in my nasal organs. So went to bed. But my pain and emissions of slime increased. This was an unpleasant entrance in my 78 [[strikethrough]] 37th [[/strikethrough]] year. Slept very little, until in the morning when my pain diminished considerably.
[[left margin vertical]] Am now 78 years old [[/left margin vertical]]  
[[underlined]] Nov. 14. [[/underlined]] The men in Washington are keeping up opposing one
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another about war matters and strikes. - Who knows when it will end? and how?
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[[strikethrough and underlined]] 1941. [[/strikethrough and  underlined]] The anniversary of the day I was born in Ghent - Belgium. - got my [[underlined]] naturalisation papers [[/underlined]] on February 20 - 1897 at the Supreme Court of White plains.
Several letters from friends congratulating me on my birthday arrived today
I was born in Ghent (Belgium) on November 14 - 1863.
Am now 78 years old today
[[left margin vertical]] Saturday November 15 [[/left margin vertical]]
[[arrow]] [[underlined]] November 15. [[/underlined]] Got up with a headache and pain in my back, then later in my right ear. But it stopped about an hour later.
Celine and I told each other many reminiscences of our courtship and the development of our family Pain suffered all day in both my [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] ears. But thermometer did not climb to 100° F. . In the evening Ninette came here for supper