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WORLD'S GREATEST
TEXAS-FOR-TEXAS
J UST RECEIVED
INDUSTRY PLAN LAUNCHED
AQUEDUCT IS OPEN
SOLID CAR LOAD OF
CANE SEED
Ever and anon a Beevillian invents
having re-
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Personals
PERPETUAL MOTION SOLVED
IF THE WELL DOESN'T GO DRY
schools, is at
day with her
Woman Who Recently Visited in San
Antonio Writes of Interesting
Landmarks.
Resting
myself
Dorrit”
the
storage
and
the
“Elizabeth Bacon, wife of Hon. Na-
thaniel Bacon Esq’d., who departed ye
life ye 2nd day of Nov., 1691. •
“Beloved and respected.”
Can mortal man ask for kinder epi-
taph than had Elizabeth Bacon?
benefit to you?
way to increase
Temple Business Interests Start State-
Wide Movement With Guaran-
tee of 3,000 Members.
and
be
Local Man Invents Pumps That Fur-
nishes Own Motive Power—Not
Yet Patented.
Mr. R. J. Capps, local soda water
manufacturer, has concocted a bran
Italian Provinces Supplied With Water
Carried Eighteen Hundred and
Seventy-five Miles.
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trade
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Red top, Orange and big German Millet
Guaranteed to be free from Johnson Grass
and all foreign grass seeds
ROCK BOTOM PRICES
Call and Investigate
WYNNE GRAIN CO.
The Leaders in Price, Quality and Service
Phone 232
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IT WAS A REVELATION TO THEM.
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MATAGORDA NEW S ITEMS.
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MISS SUTHERLAND
HONORS SENIOR CLASS.
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A MORBID DESIRE.
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TOURIST DESCRIBES HISTORIC
POINTS IN “OLD VUHGINYUH”
is easy to see that Virginia life has
preserved many of the traditions and
customs of the “mother country.”
From the decks of an excursion
beat, loaded to the limit, I witnessed
the launching of the new battleship
“Pennsylvania.” Truly we live in an
age of war; for, lying in the next slip
but one was
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From Friday’s Daily.
Judge W. S. Holman spent yester-
day in Palacios.
R. W. Benge of Wadsworth is in the
city today on business.*
Mr. Ed. S. Swearingen of Houston
spent Sunday in the city.
Marshall Boney left today for Pala-
cios on business for several days.
Mrs. Louis LeTulle left this morning
for a visit of a few days to Houston.
Mr. C. P. Zipprian of Wadsworth
was a visitor to the city Saturday and
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Max Schill of Dallas
are in the city for a two-weeks’ visit
to relatives.
Hon. John W. Gaines was a business
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MRS. A. H. WADSWORTH
DELIGHTFULLY ENTERTAINS.
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CONFEDERATES VETERANS
BANQUETED.
blandly announced to our patient pres- if it is left with him, but will
ident: “I have spilt your wheat and
sunk your ship,” and by way of an
orchestral accompaniment to this
striking stage-setting we heard the
intermingled strains of “America” and
“Die Wacht am Rhein.”
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Temple, Texas, April 16.—Carrying
with it the endorsement of the busi-' something or other and it becomes the
ness interests of Temple as the great- j solemn duty of the Piccayune to nar-
est movements ever launched in the. rate the fact to an interested public.
State, the Texas League of Home In- ‘ Once again it has happened and the
dustry clubs will commence its cam-
paign of Texas-for-Texas next week.
At an enthusiastic meeting of a citi-
zens committee Wednesday evening
the plan was given a hearty approval
a mass
Matagorda, Texas, April 20.—United
States Assistant Engineer S. M. Wil-
cox, on his tour of inspection of the
Intercoastal Canal waters from Gal-
veston to Corpus Christi, passed
through Matagorda last Thursday.
During Bishop G. H. Kinsolving’s
annual visit to Matagorda Thursday
there were nine candidates for Con-
firmation, viz.: Mrs. Emmett Lawson,
Messrs. Charlie Mahavier, Cecil In-
glehart, Leslie Cookenboo; Misses Jo
Berg, Willie Gottschalk, Rita Ingle-
harEJaM^MM^fcgis-and CJa^a. Belle
E. R. Fowler of Collegeport was a
business visitor to the city today.
Mr. E. C. McDaniel and family have
moved into the Mrs. Partain home on
Avenue I.
Rain is needed for the rice crops,
a considerable portion of which has
been planted.
Constable Joe Mangum returned to-
day from Citrus Grove where he has
been on some official work.
Mr. Ernest Wylie of Simpsonville
was a business visitor to Bay City to-
day and reports everything in good
condition in his section.
Hon. John Sutherland has returned
home from Houston where he has been
for the past few days attending the
Lumbermen’s convention.
Mr. W. S. Stewart, Matagorda’s lum-
berman, passed through the city to-
day en route home from the Lumber-
men’s convention at Houston.
Mr. Shipman, manager of the Alamo
Lumber Company at Wadsworth, pass-
ed through today en route home from
the Lumbermen’s convention at Hous-
ton. x
He has named
rhe drink “Ber-Mal” and is now en-
gaged in bottling it.
The drink promises to have a good!
run as it is one of the very best on
the market.
Sudan grass, the wonderful hay
crop of the South, whose drouth re-
sistant characteristics have made it
the most popular forage crop in the
country, should be sown some time
between April 10th and 20th, accord-
ing to Professor J. O. Morgan, of the
department of agronomy at the Agri-
cultural and Mechanical College of
Texas. Dr. Morgan also believes that
the best results will be obtained by
sowing the grass in rows, just wide
enough to allow cultivation, using
about 15 to 20 pounds of seed to the
acre.— La Grange Journal.
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A NEW DRINK CONCOCTED.
on
them. Try one or a half dozen, at-
tend to them properly and they will do
the work. Let’s keep down the fly—
they are our greatest nuisance and
menace.
Strange, isn’t it, how strong a testi-
monial is a sei of bushy side whiskers?
Our local druggist may tell us that
a certain medicine is good for a cer-
tain thing, and we think he is merely
trying to make a sale. But a ques-
tionable stranger with a sleek face
and dirty pocket handkerchief can
brag a little, tell a smutty yarn, and
perform a few cheap sleight-of-hand
tricks, and then tell us that a certain
medicine will cure in-growing toe-
nails, rheumatism, stomach trouble,
diabetes, appendicitis, toothache, bald-
iean people fat and fat people lean,
make old folks young again, and we
naek old folks young again, and we
fall over each other to buy this great
panacea.
Our local druggists have many
things to sell. They are our neigh-
bors, friends and fellow citizens. We
may safely trust them to tell us which
of the several kinds of medicines they
have is best suited to our needs.
Old Barnus was a philosopher when
he uttered that much quoted remark,
“The American people like to be hum-
bugged.”—Garland News.
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SOMETHING ABOUT SUDAN GRASS.
ness.
The clean-up spirit is becoming epi-
demic and it is all for the health of
the community.
Miss Louella Baker, who is assist-
ing in the Blessing
home to spend the
mother.
Albert Haynes donated his services
to the painting of the fire bell yester-
day and the improvement is quite no-
ticeable.
Mr. Ned Wadsworth of Pledger was
brought to the hospital yesterday, his
condition requiring the aid and con-
stant care of physicians.
We seem to be co-operating gener-
ally now in everything, so why not
give the fly the benefit of some of our
public welfare operations?
Mr. Joel P. Bryan and Mrs. Bryan
of Freeport are in the city visiting
their daughters, Mesdames Fred S.
Robbins and Thos. H. Lewis.
The Matagorda 'pharmacy ft having
a coat of new paint put on the ex-
terior of the building which improves
the corner very much indeed.
Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Curd, who have
been spending the winter with Mr. and
Mrs. B. A. Urban, left this morning
for their home in Hannibal, Mo.
Bon H. Smith of the Price Lumber
Company returned yesterday from
Houston where he had been in attend-
ance at the Lumbermen’s convention.
Mr. John A. Guynn came in from
Bay City Wednesday night to join Mrs.
Guynn here. They will spend the
summer in ■ Eagle Lake.—Eagle Lake
Headlight.
George Kelly, selling agent for the
J. I. Case Company, has recently sold
|L large tractor to the Ward Cattle
■empany and the same will be used
rn breaking land on their big ranches.
Mr. Jas. D. Gussman of Bay City
was visiting in Weimar and vicinity
several days ago. Mr. Gussman for-
merly lived in this city and his many
friends were glad to see him.—Eagle
Lake Headlight.
ble.
late.
If every man or woman who hates
a fly knew the real value of one 15-
eent Daisy fly killer, the drug stores
would be kept busy stocking up
Those Houston business men who
recently went on ,a “boosting” trip to 'new and delightful drink after months
South Texas, including the Valley of ol experimentations,
the Lower Rio Grande, saw enough to
keep them talking for many a day to
come. In fact, what they saw on the
trip was a revelation to them and they
were amazed at the development that
has taken place since the building of
the Brownsville rajilroad. — State
Topics.
And the biggest and best thing they
saw on the entire trip was Bay City,
the beautiful and marvelous Queen
of the Mid-Coast and Governess of the
Gulf-Coast.
following similar action at
meeting just a week ago.
Temple starts the statewide move-
ment with the guarantee of 3,000
i members in the local Home Industry
club. Bankers, merchants— all lines
, represented—owners and managers of
industrial plants, professional men,
employers and employes alike, have
entered into the home industry plan
with a zeal that means a bigger and
better Temple.
Thousands of dollars have already
been turned from the mail order and
out-of-Texas routes into the
channels of this city and section,
cording to the business men. r
benefit has come from a brief three
week’s local campaign. It is declared
a “good thing for Temple, therefore
a good thing for every other Texas
town and a good thing for Texas.”
It is predicted that fully 75 per cent
of the $100,000,000 that has been go-
ing annually out of Texas will be
turned into the commercial world of
the State ere one year of the proposed
three years’ campaign is finished. The
plans of the Texas-forTexas campaign
are along different lines and are
broad and sound, based strictly on
business principles.
Already a number of towns have -Ing and as the water is pumped from
invited aid and organizing for the
home industry clubs. Within a week
organizers will be ready to go into
the field to help form local clubs,
without any expense whatever to the
towns or cities. An application from
the newspapers or commercial organ-
izations of the towns or cities is all
that is necessary to get the service.
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One of the first honors accorded the
Senior class of the J. D. H. S. was
the charming entertainment given by
Miss Stella Sutherland last Friday
evening. The color scheme was in
green and white, the Senior class
colors, and vases of white roses, the
class flower, adorned every nook and
corner.
In the contest to see who could
make the most words out of the word
“Seniors,” Miss Helen Schwartz was
declared winner and received as her
reward a handsome “memory book”
and kodak album combined. Music
and games were then enjoyed uj
a late hour, when the hostess, as-
sisted by her mother and Miss Neppie
Branch, served delicious refreshments,
consisting of strawberries, cream and
cake.
Finally, the twenty-three seniors
and the High School teachers slowly
and regretfully wended their way
homeward.
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Barie, Italy, April 15.—Via Paris).
—Water from the Apennines was dis-
tributed yesterday for the first time
ic. the provinces of Bari, Foggia and
Lecce, through the Apuilia aqueduct,
the largest in the world, which was
More than 2,000,000
persons now are assured of a supply
of fresh water from mountain
streams, brought through 1875 miles'
of pipe. The territory served has suf-
fered for centuries from lack of an
adequte supply. The cost of the aque-
duct is estimated at $30,000,000 and
1000 workmen have been engaged in
its construction nearly ten years. hTe
course of the Sele River has been di-
verted. Collecting basins have been
built at its source, 1370 feet above
the level of the sea, whence the
waters are conveyed by tunnel for
seven and one-half miles, penetrat-
ing a water shed and then through
the acqueduct which is 135 miles
long. While the most important
parts of the aqueduct have been
completed, it will take a year longer
to finish all the minor details.
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PEOPLE LOVE TO BE HUMBUGGED.
Fishing parties are numerous and
luck is fine.
Mex Schwartz is in Freeport on
business for a few days.
Hon. John W. Gaines is in Galves-
ton for a few days on business.
Hon. J. M. Corbett has returned
from a business visit to Blessing.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Duller of Bless-
ing visited in Bay City this week.
Mr. Spencer Clements of Lane City eysterday. Dr. Johnson is presbyterial
spent yesterday in the city on busi- evangelist for this presbytery.
Messrs. Godwin Sterne and George
«Culver were in the city Saturday and
I stated that, weather permitting, a
| large crowd would be on hands from
both Matagorda and Wadsworth.
If you will eat Bay City vegetables,
strawberries, oranges, grapefruit, drink
Bay City artesian water and milk, wear
Bay City flowers and a smile of opti-
mism and trade exclusively with Bay
City merchants, you will soon wrax
strong and beautiful in the eyes of
your people and in the admonition of
the Lord.
; Picayune is right on the job.
Hundreds of people have tried in begun in 1905.
vain to invent a perpetual motion ma-
chine—and failed—while numerous
people have invented pumps. Some
of them have been a success and many
of them are patented and in use today.
They lift water all right but they must
be a motive power behind them—
wind, water, gasoline, steam, electric-
ity, or the like. Now comes a Bee-
villian and in his invention not only
succeeds in pumping water, but solves
rerpetual motion—if the well don’t
go dry.
I. J. Williams is the inventor. All
who know him know that he has
“fooled around” machinery and pumps
and gins the greater part of his life.
Sometime back he told the Picayune
man that he was working on a pump
that would furnish its own motive
power and that he had strong hopes;
cf it being a success. This week he
informs us that he has given his
model a trial and satisfied himself that
his theory is going to pay out all right
with a slight change in the model.
Mr. Williams proposes to lift water
from a bored well through the medium
cf a regular cylinder, but the power
is not to be furnished by a windmill
or gasoline engine or anything of the
kind. He has employed an endless
chain, with buckets, to furnish the
power, a sufficient number of them
being filled to start the chain revolv-
Bear Marks of Time.
The rains and snows of over 150
years have almost obliterated these
Last two:
“Here lies the body of Nathaniel
Portlock of this Borrough who dep’d
this life Mar. 15th, 1752.
also lies the bodys of his children.”
Or this:
“Passed the decisive moment on the
14th day of Aug. 1795.”
And this:
“Mr. James Read. Native of Dum-
fries, Scotland, aged 127 years.
has gone from Earth, but Heaven has
gained a friend.” I
one: I
Owing to the rain there will be a
temporary slight falling off in the
amount of berries shipped out this
week, but as the rain has greatly ben-
efited the crop this will, be overbal-
anced by the increased amount
the superior quality which will
ready for the market. Counting the
shipments of produce houses and of
individuals, eleven carloads so far
have gone out to the markets. Only
four carload lots have been shipped
out to date, but soon they will be
going out in numbers.—Alvin Sun.
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The Quinine That Does Not Affect The Head
Because of its tonic and laxative effect, LAXA-
TIVE BROMO QUININE is better than ordinary
Quinine and does not cause nervousness nor
ringing in head. Remember the full name and
look-for the signature of E- W. GROVE. 25c.
To Drive Out Malaria
i And Build Up The System
Take the Old Standard GROVE’S
TASTELESS chill TONIC, You know
what you are taking, as the formula is
printed on every label, showing it is
Quinine and Iron in a tasteless form.
The Quinine drives out m :a, the
Iron builds up the system :s
The editor of The Tribune was host
to the E. S. Rugeley Camp of Confed-
erate Veterans Saturday night with
a banquet at Stinnett’s Cafe.
The veterans gathered, at about eight
t’clock and passed a couple of hours
in enjoyable conversation and at the
banquet boards, mingling conversa-
tion with stories about the war and
otherwise and a few short talks over
different periods of the life which has
been passed by these noble old men.
Those present were Capt. Frank
Rugeley, Judge A. Currie, D. O. Cos-
ton, Capt. J. A. Jones, C. P. Zipprian,
Dr. Bat Smith, Capt. John Floyd
Lewis, Dr. H. L. Rugeley, J. F. Press-
ley, comrade Mason, of the camp, and
J. D. Moore, T. H. Castleton, W. H.
Plagermann, Emmett Smith and the
host.
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Let’s figure with you on that order
of job work. Remember we carry
mtil! on^y the best of stock and give you
' the very best of work.
From a woman who recently visit-
ed San Antonio the Light has receiv-
ed the following article descriptive of
Points of historical interest in the vi-
cinity of Norfolk, Va.:
My “wheel of things”
cently whirled me away from sunny
San Antonio to Norfolk, Va., I have
adopted the slogan of “seeing Amer-
ica first,” and to tat end have
sought out points of interest, espe-
cially those historical. And nowhere
is the field so rich as in this part of
Virginia, where one sees many evi-
dences of pre-revolutionary days.
In the navy yard at Portsmouth, I
which, after reassuring the guard
that I carried no kodak, I was per-
mitted to visit, I spent an interest-
ing afternoon viewing ancient
modern armament, violating
“keep off the .grass” in order to tip-
toe across and lay hands on some
cf the guns captured from the Brit-
ish.
At Cape Henry a bronze tablet on
the ivalls of an old lighthouse (itself
200 years old) commemorates the fact
that here John Smith first landed in
1607 and from here proceeded to
Jamestown.
Spent Hours Among the Dead.
But, to me, most interesting of all
is the old pre-revolutionary church
and church yard of St. Paul’s in Nor-
folks, built in 1739. In 1776, Lord
Dunmore opened a heavy cannonad-
ing in Norfolk, and one of the old
cannon balls is yet imbedded in the
church walls. Inside this church I
was allowed to rest fcr a few mo-
ments in the chair in which John
Hancock sat when he signed the De-
claration of Independence. I spent
hours there amongst the dead, in-
vesting many of the old names with
romance of my own creating. After
patiently removing the ivy and debris
I copied some of the old epitaphs.
“Samuel Cutting, killed in a duel in
1800, age 23.”
I wonder did Samuel die in de-
fense of the honor of his country or
of some “faire ladye”?
“Here lyeth the remains of Aman-
da Hiort, are here deposited Sept.
25th, 1771; the fall fever, so fatal in
Norfolk, produced her dissolution,
after a sudden attack that baffled
the aid of medicine and attention of
friends.”
And yet another
back:
“Here lyeth ye body of William
Haris, who departed ye life ye 8th
day of May, 1687-8, aged 35.”
Below this venerable inscription
was a crude skull and crossbones. I
am told the 1687-8 was the year the
calendar changed.
Debtors’ Prisons Still There.
Williamsburg, the capital of the
colonies and later of Virginia, is re-
plete with historical interest. There
one sees the first debtors’ prison es-
tablished in the colonies,
beside its old walls I found
musing on Dickens’ “Little
and the fortunes of those depicted
in “Old Bailey.” Here also is
‘ Powder Horn,” the power
house used by the British.
There are many other points <5f his-
torical interest. After a • lapse of
nearly 150 years the whole country
has distinctly an English atmosphere.
There is the air of reserve and sta-
visitor to Galveston the latter part j Dili ty that emanates from age, and it
of. the week.
Mr and Mrs. W. H. Plagermann and
children and Mrs. Sol J. Cleveland
spent yesterday in Lane City.
Hon. W. Ms Holland, who is attend-
ing court in Richmond, spent yester- i
day in the city with homefolks. I
Judge A. Currie of Caney spent Sat-
urday and Sunday in the city, the
guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Belcher.
Miss Grace Pierce arrived today
from Palacios to be the guest of her
cousin, Miss Kathryn Poole, for a few
days.
Dr. T. C. Johnson of Houston
preached two very interesting ser-
ir^ons at the First Presbyterian Church
Mrs. A. H. Wadsworth entertained
most delightfully with an informal
dance Saturday evening from half
after eight until half after eleven.
Punch, sandwiches and mints were
served throughout the evening. Those
participating in this' delightful affair
were Misses Thelma Moore, Mabel
Sweeney, Carrie Boney, Nell Mayfield,
Mildred Walker, Mary Tere Moore,
Louise Mayfield, Julia Austin and
Helen Kilbride; Messrs. Thornton
Carr, Lane Holman, John Hill, Claud
Hamill, Dorian Andrews of Wharton,
Percy Hamill, Earl Broguhton, Ellis
Hamill, Clayton Abernathy, Dick
Gaines, Austin Castleton; Mr. and
Mrs. J. S, Mayfield, Mr. and Mrs. Max
Schill and Mrs. Peareson of Rich-
mond.
Two octogenarian darkies at White
Sulphur Springs, having been employ-
ed by one hotel management since the
Civil War, are now retained as pen-
sioners, though they occasionally do
light and pottering jobs about the
place.
One day not long ago they were
languidly raking leaves on the lawn.
As a lady passed she heard them
quarreling and stopped to listen.
“Nigger,” stated the older of the
pair, “does you know whut I wish’t?
1 wish’t that hotel yonder had a thou-
san’ rooms in it and you wuz laid out
daid in ev’y room.”—Saturday Evening
Post.
will be gratifying to his many
in that respect at least.
Picayune.
a pipe by this power it will fill the
descending buckets, which, empting at
the bottom, will come on around for
another load of water. You have seen
such chains used in cisters and a
crank used to turn the chain? It is
the same system, with a little extra
thought and figuring and Mr. iklil-
liams says it will work.
We dont’ remember of any Beeville
WILL CONTINUE AMONG US. I patent ever making the inventor
wealthy, but here is hoping that Mr.
Williams’ experience will be different
—Beeville
Houston friends and admirers (and
he can count them among all classes,
the German warship, regardless of their religion and poli-
the “Prinz Eitel Friedrich,” which re- tics), to learn that Dr. William States
cently sallied forth into our port and i Jacobs will not accept the Atlanta call,
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tinue to remain in Houston as pastor
of the First Presbyterian Church. Dr.
Jacobs is one of the South’s ablest
Presbyterian ministers, is a man of
splendid personality and during his
many years of residence here he has
so endeared himself to the people of
Houston vbat to lose him now would
be a cause of universal regret.—State
Topics.
Shucks! Dr. Jacobs could not leave
George Bailey long enough to make a
trip to Georgia to say nothing of go-
ing there permanently.
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Are the stores of your town of any
Do they help in any
: your prosperity?
What would you do with your produce
if there were no stores to buy it? Are
the home stores of any convenience
to you when you want to do your
trading? The next time a peddier
visite you, or you are thinking of send-
ing an order to a mail order house, ask
yourself these questions. Remember
the mail order houses and the peddler
pay no taxes in this county, they will
not buy produce, and they sell for
cash in. advance only. Every dollar
you give to them will impoverish your
town and therefore yourself, because
your prosperity is dependent upon the
prosperity of the community in which
you live.—Blessing News.
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ALVIN STRAWBERRY SITUATION.
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