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Houston,
Texas.
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CASINO.
Office in Concrete Building Up Stairs.
CHAS. KINSBAOH, Prop.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Congress Street near Main.
HOUSTON.
TEXAS.
ROB9T E. LEE
LIVERY, FEED & SALE
weil recommended.
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-Texas.
Unrequitted Love.
Houston,
Texas.
TEXAS.
THE PRESS NDTHE CITY,
Houston,
Texas.
TEXAS.
Houston,
Texas.
Houston,
Texas.
DIRECT NAVIGATION STEAMERS
REVOLVING LIGHT
RESAURAN’T
Passage
$3 00
I WO GOOD HOUSES FOR RECT.
—AND—
Ca-hier
MEALS AND BERTHS FREE!
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At tho Texas House.
THOS. KEATS.
S. B. TILLEY.
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TEXAS.
DEALER
’HOICK miSH POTATOES
No. 39 and 41 Hain Street.
Arriving every day from Council Bluffs,
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Cotton and Wool Factor.
A. WHITAKER,
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IMPERTALa
SALOON.
BARBER
extra is for package.
Orders direct to us
be filled
HOU’STON,
Closing Ont
IMPORTER AND DE ALEN IN
Gold
to me for sale.
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MANUFACTURER OF
New Quarters
Proprietor.
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REVOLVING LIGHT
F. SCHWEIKART
BAR MD BILLIARO PARLORS,
Corner Main and Preston Sts., J 2
HOUSTON,
TEXAS.
HOUSTON, FEXAS.
A large assortment always on hand of
HOLNIES k RPESNM&. Propriet’s.
DIAMONDS
Can ne d Goods
AND FINE JEWELRY.
AND GENERAL
FAMILY GROCERIES,
Houston,
Texas
FOK REM OR LEASE.
OUR BAE
Unusual Bargains may be Had. 44
44
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ever undertaken in Houston.
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will excell inmagnificece, and in the quality
of the Liquors and Cigars kept, anything
rather back out. We let them drop
along as they come, and if they don’t
come " together,” they can slide. We,
have no time to bother with words.
0g Mr. W. I. Barker is the correspondent
and general agent of The Age at Galveston.
Give him
Sept16 5m
Watches, Clocks and Jewelry repaired and
warranted.
HOUSTON,
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Collections made throughout the State.
Accounts of Bankers, Merchants and others
solicited.
Office, 85 Leonard St. New York.
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S. & M. ROSENFIELD,
Wholesale and Retail Dealars in
HOUSTON,
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R. D. WESTCOTT, Editor.
B. F. HARDCASTLE, Bu iness Manager.
Also agent for O. W. Massey’s celebrated
Cotton Gin and Hazard Powder
Company.
Keeps constantly on hand a complete stock
of Staple and Fancy Groceries and Planta-
tion Supplies, which will be sold at prices
that defy competition.
Dealer in Gold and Silver, and all kinds of
negotiable securities. Buy and sellExchange
on all the principal cities of the United States
and Europe.
President.
Birectors,
THE DUTY.
Wines, Liquors and Cordials
GERMANIA BANK,
HEHaE EL0Eas . President.
FIRST OF JANUARY,
And offers for sale cheap a line of
Houston, - - - -
0g Only first-class work done
a call.
s. CONRADI.
"main street
GAMBRINUS saloon
CHRISTISN ISEN~E-. Prop.,
Second Door from Postoffice,
JOHN SHEARN,
EPresident.
Keeps constantly on hand a full assortment o
FRESH DRUGS, MEDICINES,
PATENT MEDICINES, TRUSSES,
PERFUMERY, SPONGES, ETC.
Orders tilled with promptness and at the
lowest prices. Prescriptions carefully put up,
day or night. je3tf.
Streets,
HOUSTON, - -
JOHN LATREYTE.
Congress Street, opposite Courthouse.
Solid and Plated Silver Ware,
Fine Regulators and Clocks,
And a Full Assortment of Spectacles
and Eye Glass.
American and Imported, for Ladies and
Gentlemen.
Our friends in Houston and other parts of
Texas are advised that there is a whisky of-
fered for sale as Chesnut Grove Whisky that
is not. our brand and is not the superior
article’we have sold fer the last ten years.
Our wholesale prices are $1 95 to $7 per
gallon. Less than a barrel the only charge
A small farm, containing four acres, with
a dwelling house, kitchen, stables, and splen-
did cistern, all under fence. It is only a mile
from town, on the Beauchamp Springs road
For particulars apply to Mrs. Julia Yeomans,
near Mitchell’s lumber yard.
nov8
E Will guarantee to sell Wagons cheaper
than any other factory in the State. A large
stock of heavy Plantation Wagons always on
hand. Orders for any description of Wagons
filled at short notice. oct23
Dealer- in Commercial Papers, and City,
County and State Scrips.
Preston Street, opposite Dissen House,
Liberal cash advances made on all Cotton,
Wool, Hides and Western Produce consigned
BENJ. A. BOTT8,
W.J. HUTCHINS,
A. JBJRKIG.
W. M. KICK.
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Two. or three boarders or a gentleman and
lady can be accommodated with board in a
pleasant part of the city, by applying at this
office. None need apply unless they come
Silver Watches
From the best Manufactories, at all Prices.
• DEPOT in the Market.
Orders in any duantity filled at short notice
either for the interior or city.
Extensive facilities enable us to offer prices
lower than elsewhere. oetlltf :
Buysand sells Cickens, Eegs. and
Country Produce generally.. oct11*
Has leased the late John Collins corner,
and has bought the stock of J. M. Tryon &
Co. He will move into these quarters on
Whiskies.
CHESNUT GROVE BRAND !
Which are superfluous in the two estab-
lishments; and until the
First of January
Invites his friends and the Houston public
to call upon him at his Market Square Store,
where
MASON & BLACK,
Manufacturers of
AND
WHOI ESA , E GROCER.
A BRUNNER,
MANUFACTURER OF
BOOTS, SHOES & GAITERS,
Congress St., between Main & Travis.
M. J. LOEB,
Main Street, next to Kafenberger’s,
Bremond’s Building,
Dealer in CLOTHING, DRY GOODS,
BOOTS AND SHOES, &c.
Quick sales and small profits; our motto.
oct13#
J^ONESTARBAKERY,
CHAS. WICHMAN, Proprietor,
Preston St., opposite Market,
Foreign and Domestic Fruits,
Opposite Telegraph Office,
Main St., Houston, Texas,
Apples and Oranges a Specialty.
July31 5m
Fancy Dry Goods,
CLOTH ING,
BOOTS, SHOES,
Hats and Fur HisItwig Gooffs
249 and 51 Main Street,
EUSTON’S
BUSINESS COLLEGE,
VanAlstyne’s Building, Main Street,
The best Free E/m ch in Houston every
morning at 10 e’clock. The best Liquors,
Aines. Cigars etc., constantly at the bar.
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Exclusively in Coal!
YARD NEAR LOUISIANA BRIDGE.
AND
Commission Merchant,
—— L •——3
Butt’s old Stand, Cor. Preston & Milam
AT BRENHAM
Stop at the
Peabody House,
Near the Depot.
CHAS. W. RUGERS,
Has of his own direct importation and under
his own direct supervision, the only stock in
Houston of pure liquors, suited for medical
use, consisting in part of
Sherry and Port Wines Old Jaimaca Rum,
White Port Wine, St. Croix Rum,
. Pure French Cognac, Holland Gin,
Fine Old Claret, French Cor-
dials, Whit > Wine, Ale
and Porter, Scotch
and Irish Whisky, and Straight Old Whiskies.
HBiackberry Wine made under his
own supervision.
No common goods kept in stock.
octIl.—3m
) President.
W. GR AY,
OOE.ENNIS,
‘13. ONG60BN
TEXAS?
If You Want the
Best Oysters
in the city, go to
JACOBS ARTOS,
Next to the Ruby, Main Street.
If you want a GOOD SQUARE MEAL, at
50 cents, go to Jacob Arto’s, Main Street,
next to the Ruby.
If you want GALVESTON OYSTERS at
25 cents per dozen, go to Jacob Arto’s, next
to the Ruby, Main street.
If you want BERWICK’S BAY OYSTERS
at 35 cents per dozen, go to Jacob Arto’s St.'
Charles Restaurant, Main Street, next to the
Ruby. nov5tf
Subscriptica
Per year $10 00 Delivered in the city at
One Dollar per month, payable monthly.
Advertising:
Per Inch—One Dollar for the first inser-
tion, an 1 50 cents for each subsequent inser-
tion.
Liberal terms for half column or column
contracts.
On the Montgomery Road, within one
block and a half of the old New Orleans De-
pot, One suitable for a boarding house and
the other for a grocery or bar-room.
THOMAS McANALLEN,
Maggie—Well, dear me, George may be a
nice young man, but, gracious, so gauky !
See how ungarbly his clothes fit.
Mamma—Well, but daughter he is sober,
steady and attentive to his business.
Maggie—May be so, dear ma, that’s com-
mon rumor; but a man who is careless in his
dress is apt to be so in other matters. Con-
trast him with Charlie ; Charlie, it is true,
has not at present so good a position, but he
will haveit, for his dress is tidy and nice. I
know he-will -win his way to favor among
men ; his new suit is a perfect love.
When he entered the theatre with me the
other night he attracted universal attention.
I really "could net resist the temptation to
enquire where they were made and he told
me Messrs. Bernstein & Cohn, on Con-
gress street, next to the Bank Saloon, were
his Tailors. I could almost love that Tailor,
for his skill. No ma, George mayiove me
hut lie must go, I can never, never love an
ungentlemanly dressed man. If he would
go te Bernttein’s and oruer a perfect suit of
clothes the case might be otherwise.
First class attention given boarding horses,
always on hand for hire fine horses and bug-
gies /funerals or parties furnished with hacks
at short notice, GEO. W. LEMMON,
Proprietor.
MEDICINAL LIQUORS.
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(gE Keeps constantly on hand a full supply
of Groceries and Confectioneries. Cracker
and Flour a speciality. Also keeps Fresh
Bread in the Market every morning. Aug46m
Ladies’Oyster Saloon.
Special attention to the traveling public
Spring mattresses, clean bed clothing, and
the table always supplied with the best the
market affords. The CHEAPEST fare in the
The co-partnership heretofore existing un
der the name and style of A. Mueller & Co.
was diseolved December 1st, and Mr. Mueller
is now doing business on his own account.
I will continue to sell meat in the market and
solicita continuance of the patronage of my
old customers and the public generally.
dec66t SAM GEISELMAN.
owa. For sale at ninety cents a bushel, in
sacks.
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Open day and evening under the su-
pervision and direction of B. B. Euston, late
Professor of the Commercial Department of
the University and State College of Georgia,
and competent assistants,
This College is entirely thorough and prac-
tical in its mode of instruction in every de-
partmentpertaining to a business education.
Young men desirous of becoming qualified
for the duties of the Counting House will
save time and money in visiting this Institu-
tion before proceeding elsewhere. The
Branches taught are
Penmanship, Book Keeping, Mathe-
matics, including Mercantile Cal-
culations, Mercantile Law,
Business Correspondence,
Etc., Etc., Etc.
For terms of Tuition, Specimens of Pen-
manship, etc., etc., address
B. B. EUSTON, Principal,
Van Alstyne’s Building, Main Street, Hous-
ton, Texas. Sept143m
JAMES HARRINGTON,
FOURTH JUSTICE PRECINCT.
Will attend to taking acknowledgements
and conveyancing, such as writing Deeds of
Trust, Mortgages, and solemnizing the r tes
of matrimony. This will save tn people of
Dunman’s and Hoffman’s Precincts trouble
of riding forty miles to accomplish the above
objects. octllti#
’ VOISAN & BUJAC,
BROKERS.
No expense or effort has been neglected
to render this the most sumptuous and ele-
gant: —
BILLIARD mu
in the State. The Tables are all new and.o
the most approved ZFL8.EuE make, and
the furniture is recherche and elegant.
W atch.es 5
from responsible parties will
The San Antonio Herald beats us all
on long shots. It has a two columnar
tide on the ‘‘Prince of Wales in India.”
J. H. GREEN,
Washington Road,
Deals exclusively in Coal, comprising
OSAGE at $12 Q0 per ton; PITTSBURGH at
$16 00; ANTHRACITE at $18 00; CANNEL
at $17 00; also COKE.
All these Coals delivered free in quantities
to suit at the prices per ton above named.
Coal at these rates makes cheaper fuel than
wood. My stock will be fully maintained and
all orders tilled promptly. nov20tf
ROBERT 8.' KIRK & GO,
^Receives deposits. Buys and sells ex-
change on all leading points.
Does a General Banking Business.
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MISS M. KLEIN
Has opened a FIRST CLASS LADIES’
SALOON at her old stand, corner Main and
Texas Avenue, where she will, from this
date, serve- to her lady customers the best
of Oysters in every style; also Coffee and
Chocolate at all hours.
RHE Confectionery Department will
be conducted as usual, where all the Candies
can constantly be found to suit every taste. •
promptly. A. HANFORD & CO.,
dec3tf 150 Chambers Street, New York.
Will B. Bonner airs himself in the
North Texas Press. He creates .a sen-
satiou wherever he goes.
EOULston
OYSTER DEPOT,
Jolin IE a ang. Proprietor.
Wholesale and Retail,
H. F. HURD,
We would respectively inform the ladies
of Houston that, to meet a demand long re-
quired, we hav opened a first class oyster
saloon, where ladies may feel assured that
they will receive polite attention. Families
supplied; also, for sale Foreign and Domestic
Fruits oct27
TILLEY & CO, Proprietors.
T, W. HOUSE,
H F. SCHMIDT.
DRUGGIST AND APOTHECARY,
No. 66....Travis Street....No. 66.
R. COTTER & CO.,
Wholesale and Retail
DRUGGISTS.
Constantly on hand a complete stock of
pure Drugs and Chemicals. Colognes, Ex-
tracts and Fancy Toilet Articles, including
Brushes, Combs, etc. Also dealers in Paints,
Oils, Varnishes, Putty and Painter’s Mate-
ripls of all kinds, including Brushes and Tube
Colors. Also
Manufacturers of
pure Seidlitz Powders (full weight), Concen-
trated Extract Jamaica Ginger, Magic Relief,
I X L Cliltl Cure’ IXL Chill Tonic, Cinchona
Tonic, IXL Liniment, IXL Horse nd
Cattle Powders and Vegetable Tooth Pow-
ders : also I X Cement.
g-g Prescriptions carefully compounded at
all times, day and night. 74 Main street,
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Rural Register.
The proprietors of the Texas Rural Reg-
ister desire to obtain the names of every
newspaper published, in Texas, with the
names of .proprietors place of publication,
rates, etc., for publication in their Almanac
for 1876.
The’ Texas Rural Register and Immi-
grants Hand Book, for 1876, will contain
150 pages of original matter on every sub-
jest of interest to parties coming to Texas,
besides a new and original map of the State,
- corrected up to October 1st, 1875.
The Almanac, Farm and Garden Calen-
dars, list of Post offices, and list of news-
papers, will be continued as in last year’s
edition. Two thousand copies of the edi-
tion of 1875 were sold; going to every
State in the Union, to Canada and Europe.
Ten thousand copies of the edition of 1876
will be printed, and will be sold with map
at fifty cents. Advertisement per page $30.
Address : BURKE & VASMER.
-Publishers, Houston.
GREAT BARGAINS!
Purchased at a large Bankrupt sale in
New Orleans.
$54 57:5 worth of oot-ane Sh ,
and dothing just arrived, and bound to
be closed out within the next thirty days,
comprising:
• ooo pairs of Men’s and Boy’s Pegged
and Sewed Boots of all kinds.
1500 pair of Men’s Fine Sewed Box Toe
Congress.
500 pair Duke Alexis Ties.
200 pair of assorted Ladies’ and Misses’
Shoes.
100 ’ pair of assorted Children’s Shoes.
Also, a variety of different kinds of Boots
and Shoes, too numerous to mention.
ALSO,
500 pair of Cossimere Pants.
1400 pair Jeans Pants.
1 e 00 Men’s, Boys’ and Children’s Hats’of
all kinds.
500 dozen assorted Over and Under Shirts-
We call the attention of the public to the
above articles. They were purchased at less
than one-half the cost, and we are deter-
mined to close them out without delay, there-
fore offer them at small profits. Those that
are desirous of purchasing bai gains, are in-
vited to call and examine our stock. Call
early.
LOEB & SHICONNANN,
6 Pi eston St. Houston, Texas.
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Shaving, Hair Cutting,
—AND—
Sham pooling
Pillot’s Building, Opposite Post office.
This is the finest tonsorial establishment in
the city. Gentlemen are promised polite
attention. None but the best artists are em-
ployed, and a clean Shave, perfect Hair Cut-
ting and Shampooning is guaranteed.
J. W. WATSON,
WAGONS, BRAYS, PLOWS,
BUGGIES, CARRIAGES,
BAROUCHES, ETC.
B LA CKSMITHING
OF ALL KINDS NEATLY AND EXPEDITIOUSLY
EXECUTED.
14 and 50 Commerce Street,
NOTICEI NOTICE!
LEAVE HOUSTON at.............5P.M.
LEAVE GALVESTON at................
We do wish uur neighbor would be
more careful.how it puts its words to-
gether — Houston Telegraph.
We beg pardon, neighbor; but you
invite us into a field that we don’t
know much about. We know how
to put several things together, but
when it comes to « words,” we would
The best Wines and Liquors always at the
Bar.
Lunch, consisting of the best the Market
affords, at 10 o’clock everyday. • octllti
BOARJ! BOARD!!
However, we are desirous of
maintaining friendly relations with
our neighbor, and as nothing puts it
so much out of humor as to be criti-
cised, we will let that part of the
subject lie over.—Houston Telegraph.
We tender our neighbor our hand.
It does put us out of humor, terribly.
Let it lie over.
OYSTFR SALOON,
W. J. PERRY, Proprietor,
Corner of Main and Preston Sts.,
HOUSTON, TEXAS,
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CARR LA GES ANB B UG GIES
—AMD—
S. CONRADI,
Pillot’s New Iron Front Building,
44 MAIN STREET 44
9 3 MAIN S T R E E*T ,
DEALERS IN
Stoves & Hardware,
PLATEB GOOBS, CUTTLERY,
TIN, WOODEN & WILLOWWARE
TIN, COPPER A SHEET IRON
WORK BONE TO ORB ER.
PUMPS, ROPES AND GUTTERING,
ROOFING, ETC., DONE AT
SHORT NOTICE. tf
M. MYERSTON,
Wholesale Dealer In
BLACKSMITHS,
Nos. 14 & 15 Commerce St.,
Houston,........Texas.
ALL WORK GUARANTEED.
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Hanford’s Purified
| octlu
PHE CITY BANK OF HOUSTON,
Capital, $500,000
HOUSTON, ... TEXAS.
BENJ. A: BOTTS. B. F WELMS,
MONDAY,---DECEMBER 13,1875.
B . F . HU 0 C INS
It may be taken as the first step in
the downward career of any place, when
it neglects and starves out , its local
newspapers. What would Shreveport,
Galveston, Houston or Austin do with-
out their public journals ? They each
exert more influence in promoting the
general welfare than any ten of their
wealthiest citizens. —Marshall Herald.
There are some who won’t believe
that, but nevertheless it is true. Let
the people of Houston bring the matter
home to themselves’ and think. A few
years ago the press of Houston was -ex-
tremely weak and non compos, and it
gradually starved out. The city began
to starve with it, and we bad a series of
the dullest sort of years, during which
many of the most hopeful Houstonians
nearly lost heart. Then the press of
Houston began to grow strong again—
gaining in strength everyday. Simul-
taneously with the growing strength of
her press, Houston begain to grow
strong, and like her press she is gaining
in strength every day. She is now five
times more powerful than ever before.
Some will say that the Houston press,
declined in consequence of the decline
of Houston, and that the decline of the
latter was in no way con
nected with the decline of the for-
mer. The example of Galveston, right
before our eyes, will not sustain the
conclusion. ifis well known that while
the Houston press was declining, that of
Galveston was obtaining formidable
power; and it rs well known that while
things were very aull and sick in Hous-
ton, they were extraordinarily brisk in
Galveston. The Galveston press grew
in wealth and power, as no press ever
before grew in the South, and Galveston
city followed right after her press, pari
passu. We dare say the Galveston News
has done much more to build up Gal-
vesion than any five hundred capital-
ists within her border. It may not be
flattering to the vanity of some to think
so, but a cool investigation would show
this to be a fact. The News was every ■
day talking all over Texas and all over
the United States about the advantages
of Galveston, and that talk had
its effect, as able talk always will
have. If the Houston press had been in
the hands of men as able to conduct it
as the Galveston press was, Houston
never would have seen the dull times she
had so long, and Galveston would not
have been so great as she is to-day.
But we do not envy ’ Galveston
the greatness which she now enjoys
through her great press. We propose
now to make things livoly with her,
and to divide honors, if possible.
We quote further from the Marshall
Herald:
In 1851 the population and wealth of
Panola and Upshur counties were about
equal. Upshur had an enterprising and
reading people, and having a respectable
subscription list in that county, we tried
the experiment of what a newspaper
could accomplish|in promoting their pros-
perity For two years we were engaged
in writing up the advantages which Up-
shur held out to settlers, and what was
the result ? In two years that county
had quadrupled its population and re-
sources, and had nearly as many voters
as Harrison, while Panola, with as good
lands and nearer navigation, made no
advance whatever. Panola county has
now a good newspaper, and is known
not only from one end of the State
to the other, but abroad. While we do
not know that such is the case, we have
no doubt that, since the establishment
of the Panola Watchman, property has
advanced at least fifty per cent. „Ag..
gregate this, and we see at once what a
live paper can accomplish for an intelli-
gent, thrifty, enterprising people. Our
Yankee neighbors understand the influ
ence of the press, and there are many
instances where they have established
and kept up large, flourishing newspa-
pers, at individual expense, and thereby
realized thousands of dollars. But there
are persons in the cities and counties
named, and many others, property hol-
ders and merchants, that never furnish
a dollar to a newspaper, that grieve
over immigration, and wish there was
not a railroad in Texas,
S. L. HOHENTHAL,
FINANCIAL BROKER,
HOUSTON, TEXAS-
Invites commissions for the purchase or
sale of BONDS, STOCKS, COMMERCIAL
PAPER, MORTGAGES, SCRIP, and all
papers of value.
46 Main Street.
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The gailg Sge
Ladies Oyster Saloon,
OPPOSITE EXCHANGE HOTEL,
COAL! COAL!!
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