The Bonham News. (Bonham, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, August 11, 1911 Page: 2 of 4
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Bonham dittos
KUTAULISHCO IM6
If thkbxis any one institution | If there is oae thine that tor-
in the State of Texas that should tures an editor more than any-
thing else it is to publish a $15
i at the Faatoffloe at Bonham,
Texas, as aeoond-class mail matter
SUBSCRIPTION BATES
On® Tear.............One Dollar
Six Months..............Fifty Gents
Three Months.....Twenty-five Cents
INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE
CLUBBING BATES
News and Farm News (DatlasrNews) - #1.75
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COMSTOCK A DICUS, Prewrtetera
C. S. COMSTOCK. CSiter
L. C. OICUS. Businas* Maiuisr
IMTCRURBMR.
We are gratified to see the en-
thusiasm which is being shown
in both Paris and Sherman over
the inter-urban project. The
people of Sherman know from ex-
perience that their Dallas interur-
ban line has been of great bene-
fit to their city and for this rea-
son it is not difficult to find
plenty of men who are willing
and ready to stand back of such
a movement. In Paris, too, the
interest is ripe and at a meeting
the other night the preliminary
$10,000 were raised by her citi-
zens.
The question of making the ef-
fort to have the line extended
through to Clarksville was dts
cussed bv the leading citizens of
that town, in s recent meeting
And some of the merchants
thought it would give a chance
for their patrons to go to Paris
and do their trading, and would
seriously impair their trade
This idea is so erroneous and has
been so often disproved where-
ever lines -have been built, that
one hesitates to take it seriously.
The Clarksville people did the
right thing, however, in deciding
to investigate in towns similarly
located. They will find upon
their investigation that an inter-
urban not only gives people a
chance to get away but it also
gives people a chance to come to
a town. Conventions, institutes,
political meetings of all kinds
choose towns to which they can
easily go and which have rail
road or interurban facilities
People who want to retire from
active life and build a beautiful
home in which to live, will choose
a town that has these accommo-
dations. And we venture to say,
that no one who spends the balk
of bis money ft home now will
not do so after the interurban
comes. That 30 per cent more
more money will be spent than
before is a conservative estimate.
Every encouragement possible
should be given the interurban
and will be given by all men who
are progressive and wide awake
to the situation. If. the citizens
of Fannin County fail to do their
share, then they are behind the
times and the proper amount of
pash and vim is not in them.
We people of Bontfqm do not
realize what this would mean to
our citv or we would not rest un-
til we were sure of it. It would
pat life and energv where there is
lethargy and indifference to pro-
gress. It would raise the value
of our property. It would bring
trade to our merchants. It would
make Bonham a mors .desirable
place in which to live.
Let ns get after and make the
interurban lines from Paris to
Sherman and from Bonham to
McKinney certain and then we
can say with all the more enthu-
siasm to our distant friends,
“Come to Bonham."
have back of it the fall support
of oar legislature it is our State
University. W« regret that the
Senate turned down the amend-
ment make be Johnson, Peelers
and f^sutman to increase the
present appropriation $50,000 tor
re believe our U iversity should
be given therannev.
The farmers are pretty well di-
vided upon the reciprocity ques-
tion- Recently the Firm Jour-
nal of Philadelphia took a straw
vote and the result stood on Aug.
1: 1% in favor and 204 against.
Why so many farmers as there
are think that the reciprocity
real? would be disastrous, to
them ts a mystery, but the fact
that about hatf of them are in
favor of it indicates that not all
of them have been influenced 'by
those hired demogognes, who
would protect special interests.
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It.seems strange that in spite
of the fact that so much has been
said about the extermination ot
the fly, the only natural method
of its total annihilation has been
wholly passed by. The only
feasible and natural, means of
destroying the fly is by going ex-
tensively into the cultivation and
breeding of spiders. The spider
is the fly’s natural enemy, and if
millions of these industrious in-
sects are allowed to construct
their webs in every corner ot a
room from attic to cellar, the fly
will have little chance to live
Texas press should urge that
this matter be taken up promptly
and that arachnological labora-
tories, for the purpose of scientfi-
callv breeding the best web
makers, should b6 constructed.—
Bonham News.
Ugh! Some remedies are worse
.than the disease they are applied
to. Flies are dangerous and dis-
gusting pests, to be sure, but the
spider (arascbnid) is so wholly
and perfectly repugnant to every
one except the biologist that any
proposition^ looking to a wider
dissemiation of the hateful ara-J
neida (get on to our scientific
terminalogy) would ruin any
public man who dared to put it
as a plank in his platform. That
is any ordinary politician. Sen-
. .ator Bailey might be able to get
or $20 obituary notice about some
old prominent citizen who never
had the manhood to take his
country paper. Editors fr*quetly
put iu such notice at request of
relatives and frinds, but it grinds
them to eulogize a man to the
skies who was too stingy to sup
port his home paper. A three
line notice is all such fellows de-
serve.— Moore Model.
The editor who does such
things deserves to be tortured.
When a newspaper chronicles the
death of any old or young citizen
as a matter ol news in any proper
way it sees fit, it has done only a
duty it owes its readers. When
any of the deceased Velatives or
friends want any eulogy of him.
or her, as the'case may be. put
into the editor’s paper, they
should be told gently, but plainly
that they can do so by payement
of a reasonable advertising rate.
One has uo more right to request
a newspaper to give its space for
the publication of eulogies or for
long obituary notices than he has
to ask it to give space for adver-
vertising a ^business concern.
Every editor should make it- a
fast rule to charge for all legit-
imate advertising.
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THE SEA.
She was rich and Of high degree:
A poor and unknown artist fie.
"Paint me,” she said, "a viaw of the sea.”
S i he painted the sea as it looked the day
That Aphrodite arose from its spray;
And it broke, as she gazed on its face the while
Into its coun'loss-dimpled smile.
"What a pnkv, stupid picture!” said she;
**I don’t believe he can paint the sea!”
Then he painted a raging, tossing sea.
Storming, with fierce and sudden shock.
Wild cries, and writhing tongues ol foam,
A towering, mighty fastness-rock. '•
In its sides, abive those leaping crests,
The thronging sea birds built tbeir nests.
“What a disagreeable daub!” said she;
“Why it isn’t anything like the s^a!’’
Then he painted a stretch of hot, brown sand.
With a big betel on either hand.
And a handsome pavilioji for the band—
Not a sign of water to be seen
Except one faint little strea^r of green.
“What a pertectly exuuisite picture!” said she;
“It’s the very image of the sea!”
j —Eva L. Ogden.
Adolphus Busch, the great
St.-Louis brewer, is^ threatening
to not builds bis twenty-two-story
hotel in Dallas, unless he is as-
sured that the county will not
vote local prohibition. It is said
that every man has bis price.
If this be so we are wonderingf
if a tweotv-two-storv hotel will
be accepted bv tbe people of
Dallas County for the right of
managing tbeir own affairs.
Sanger Courier.
Judging from tbe editorial re-
marks of Dallas evening news
pipers and the tone of the advice
given by some of Dallas’ leading
Anti Citizens, Mr. Busch’s threat
did not take well in Dallas,
anvway Dallas gave Mr. Busch
ro written assurance that Dallas
County would not adopt local
option.
We will publish Col. J. F. Wol
ter’s expense account for tbe ant-
is in the prohibition campaiga as
soon as he sends it in.—Sulphur
Springs Gazette.
If you don’t publish it until
v
,----- _------ .Jake voluntarily makes it you
away with it by explaining that *will wajt too long to interest the
his whole aim, object and ambi-
tion, his aspiration by dav and
his dream bv night, is to s^ve
the farmers from the Democratic
party, their hereditary foe, and
that bv raising up a grand army
of spiders he ccu'd take bis piz-
ened soldiery and drive every
D-mo'rat in Texas into the Gulf
of Mexico. Probably Hon. Joe
could put that over; but, as we
said before, no ordinary politi-
cian with sabdv hair and a lizard
tiosom complexion could do it.—
State Press-
State Press talks just like a
woman. The editor is sure of
this for his wife won’t let him
put into practice his spider idea,
but brushes down every fly trap
set by the spiders (arachnids)
(State press should brush up a
little on . scientific terminology.
He ,is trying to put Greek ending
on Latin derivatives). The
Bailey question, of course, enters
into this the same as it does into
any dfber question of public in-
terest and Hon, Joe with his
many democratic triends and
standbys and bis still more nu-
merous host of standard bearing
Republicans will very likely
utilize the above now,unpopular,
theory.
What will Pro-Bailey Antis
do if Bailey joins with Ball?
Or to pnt it in another way;
what will Anti-Bailey Pros
do?
Some of the antis do not want
to be examined by an investigat-
ing committee. There may be
something they do not want to
tell. - •
Bailey has written a lettersay-
ing that be never stated he would
not support Ball against Colquitt,
tlis letter is ingeniously ambig-
uous. Ball's friends say it means
he will support Ball. Colquitt’s
friends say it means Bailey does
not want Ball to be a candidate.
A Rbligbocs order in Okla-
homa is reported to have a devine
call to sacrifice to God the life of
a child. Ignorant, heathenish
fanaticism! > People who profess
to make such an attempt in the
same of God should be dealt with
even m ire harshly than though
thtv professed to do it in the
name of the devil,
. ! 1 : PMm.
In a campaiga for civic im-
provement, the women are most
valuable assets, and with the
least possible encouragement
the women are not only willing,
but glad to take up a movement
for “a fcity beautiful” —Brown-
wood Banner-Bulletin,
Honest, now, in a campaign
for anr good cause, are not tbe
good women most valuable as-
sets?
Leader office received a big
sate today,—not to put money in,
but principally to protect tbe
books which .show an indebted-
ness of several thousand dollars
to this plant bv people who are
amply able to pay, but wbo are
taking tbeir own good time about
it.—Orange Leader
The Leader is nothing if not
anxious to please.” It not only
lets men who db not need tbe
money keep several thousand
dollars ol its money that it does
need, but keeps books so that
they may be able to tell how
much they owe it, and then buvs
an expensive sate to keep those
books from being destroyed by
fire. That is the wav most of
the newspapers gef rich.
present generation. It will not
be revealed until that day when
the books kept in another world
are opened and the things hid-
den therein made plain.
The antis say they will not
comply with the Attorney Gener-
al’s ruling that both sides in tbe
recent contest must file an ex-
pense accout. Thev needn’t
mind telling how much they
spent so long as thev don’t have
to tell where thev got it.—Savoy
Star f
They go on the theory that,
bow or no how, it is none of the
peoples business where they got
their money, or how much or for
what purpose they spent it.
Thev look at things |s did that
somewhat notorious American
Millionaire who expressed bis at-
titude in the words, “The public
be dammed-”
New Heating Plant
Mr. G. W. Fuller is having an
up-to-date beating system in-
stalled in his residence on Fifth
St. It will be a comfort and
luxury and not very-costly either.
Fosdick & Greenway Co. of Ft.
Worth are doing the installation.
They are experts in their line
and would be glad to talk and
show the working of the system
to any one contemplating heating
their residence Mr. Greenway
of that firm is now in the city
and can be seen at Mr. Fuller’s
residence any time this week.
The old method of stoves for
heating houses has been improved
on; the trouble and dirt is a thing
of the past. Heating bv steam
or hot water is cheaper and
cleaner.
Oust
Only a handful of dust,
Common brown dust from the
plain
Stirred bv the breath of the wind
Turned into mire bv the rain.
Once it was lordly enough,
Maybe a prince or a peer . . .
Now it is pitiful stuff,
Nothing to love or to fear.
Just a mere handful of dust!
Re ilize, then, iUvou can,
He wbo created us all
Fashioned it into a man!
Maybe a fool or sage,
Maybe a king or knave;
Many exalted in life
Humble themselves in tbe
grave.
Only a handful of dust; S
Trodden and ground uuder
loot;
Scarcely a moment a gone
Marked the print ot a boot.
Gazing upon you I see
Nothingness swallowing sin;
All that you are I shall be!
All that I am vou have been!
The Boll Weevil.
The boll weevil has for years
The WorM’s Cotton Prodactim
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Uucle Sam has just gathered
stastistics from all cotton pro-
ducing Countries on the globe
and finds the world's production
for 1910 to be 19.171,000 bales
as follows:
United States,
British Iudia,
E fvpt
Russia,
China, ' ,
Brazil.
Peru,
Mexico, f
Turkey,
Persia,
Other Countries,
11.483.000 bales
3 508,000 “
1,535,000 H
900.000 “j;
735.000
360.000 “
128.000 “
135.000
105 000
92.000
200.000
THE BEST PROOF
An Opportunity for You to Prove Our Statements
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i t We have a remedy for Kidney disorders, in which we havfi
x every confidence.
c That you may possess tills confidence too, we offer to supplj-
you with a remedy free of charge if we do not. benefit your
case.
r Rexall (Pills have proven beneficial in treating so many
afflicted with chronic kidney ailtnenu that we unhesitating
fer them under our personal guarantee to refund any mone
»- may have paid us, provided no beiietictai results are noted, ij
T Uexall Kidney Pills may be obtained at our store The Ibyiall
Store. Sixty Pills in a iiox, price fiO cents.
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people
gfcy of-
ey you
When you are in need of
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any kinfti of job work, step * i .
in The Bonham News of-
fice, you know where it is don’t
you? We'l, It’s jost around the corner from the
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First National Bank. I wen# in the other day, and'
on - inquiring about getting some work done, l
learned that they were prepared to do work) that I
had been having done away from home. I was glad because|l woul<P
rather have my work done at home. When yon know you nan get’
the very best letter heads, note heads, bill heads, envelopes, wed*;
ding invitations, culling cards, special rule work, embossing^ cata- I
logueeJcirculars, in fact, everything that you can get panted
• any ljlace, juskas neatly and promptly done why.not patronize
t. home. They have a large circulation and ads in The Bonham
News alawys bring results.^; Just try it once. If you have
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any items of interest to the publitt let them know about it,
and they will be glad to publish It, Bonham is ' noted
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foe the
best schools, churches aQd all legiti-
mate business enterprises, and for just
as good job printing as you
can get other places
come to ;•
BONHAM.
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OIL MILL EMPLOYEE
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in shut
Total, 19.17t,000 bales
Manv efforts have been made
bv tbe European Manufacturers
to become independent of tbe
American producer, but prcduc
lion has been unprofitable excepi
in well defined areas. The Lord
made the South cotton country
and allffforts to wrest from it
tbe balance of power in produc-
tion has proved futile.
Mart.Tex.,lifts tbe most origin-
al “cieanup”plan in the country.
Setts 0.
Weaver While at Work at
Oil Mill.
O. M. Weaveij, one of tthe em-
ployees at tbe oil mill was se-
verely burned Wednesday. While
c rrving on bis usual work oae of
the steampipes broke and let out
a stream of boiling hot water
over his left side scalding his
arm so that tae skin literally
pealed off. The burn was quickly
dressed and although it is heal-
ing as well as can be expected it
will be several weeks before he
can resume his ujsual work.
Horse Taken froa Pnk
on First Monday.
His Escaoe.
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List Minday afternoon anoth-
er horse and rig were stolen from
B in ham’s public square- Phone
messages were sent in all direc-
tions and persons in every section
of the country ordered to be on
the lookout- The horse and bug-
gy were finally found'two miles
south of Ector but the tbiejf has
not ret been.caught.
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bi-ffl-d the skill of Uncle Sam in j and perhaps the one most popular
in acquiring a fighting knowl- with the people. This little city
edge of the physical structure of libs adopted the honor roll syt-
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Papers
this terrible pest, but after fol-
lowing in the wake of this for-
eign insect for nearly a decade,
our Federal Agricultural Depart-
ment has issued a bulletin show-
ing the result ot the observation
of the government experts in the
Texas cotton fields.
The report chronicles the wgU
known fact that a dry season re-
tem, which is being conducted by
the Commercial Club and Ladies’
Civic League. Once a week
a joint committee lrom the two
organizations makes a trip ot in
spection. Stores, offices and bank
are visited and graded much after
the fashion a teacher grade* ex
amination papers. The report is
then published in the local paper.
tards tbe advance of the boll Tbe plan~has created s > much ri-
weevil more than anv other one valrv between the different bust*
factor, and the report states that ness concerns that Mart is fast
the summer and winter .preceding , becotniag one of tbe cleanest
tbe 1910 crop were exceptionally ltowns in the country. Efforts
disastrous to the boll weevil and'at cleanliness are not confined to
the insect was entirely exterrai- the buildings aioue but to adja-
nated in Texas in its territory cent grounds and streets in lront
“cle
west of a line drawn from Paris
in Lamar County to KerrVille in
Kerr County.
The “clean up” spirit is not alone
in the business district, but a
most healthtul emulation exists
The spread of the weevil is en- j in the resideuce sections, and to
tirelv by flight which begins j use the expression of a Dallas
Hew Book
All who want my book entitled
“Early Pioneer Times mi Texas”
and will nay me $1.00 per copy in
advance, I will deliver said book
as soon as printed at $1.00 per
copy to all<who paid for same.
Portrait pictures and write-ivp
experiences of our old pioneer mo-
thers and fathers solicited to be
entered on the pages of history
to be read by present and future
generations.
Lowest biddei; will print said
book.
J. Taylor Allen,
Honey Grove Tex. R. F. D 7
31-3tF Box 22
about mid-August and continues
into November when the disper-
sion movement is terminated by
frost. About 8')% ot thfc cotton
belt of Texas is now infested
with tbe insect. Tbe average
annual advance of the pest into
new territory is 27.000 square
miles. At this rate ot travel it
will be fifteen years before the
eastern bmit of the cotton belt
in the United States is in/tsted.
On tbe west it is certain that the
limits will not be materially in-
creased because of drvness and
cold winter which makes for the
insect an impassable barrier.
The Texas fanner is making
considerable headway in fighting
the boll weevil.
Stove Wood
Phone me your orders for wood
ot anv descrio ion. All orders
filled promptly. Toll 4-2 rings.
21 tf R^ A. Wheeler. '
It is now believed that Taft
will veto Statehood measures cn
basis of Recall.
traveling man wbo recently visit-
ed Mart:” The whole darned
town is as neat as it it had just
been laundered Tbe Survey
Chroniclinos.
Houston Chronicle.
Let the means justify the end
Iu the morning of life, at noon
and as the shadows gather we
need love.
In manv respects the world’s a
mirror and reflects back to a
man his own face.
The secret of not quarreling
with our friends and kindred is
to learn to overlook faults.
Let no man dare despair at the
ultimate outcome'of the fight for
right; G >*d is on His throne.
One should notouly feed of the
dainties that are bred in a book,
but also eat of the more sub-
stantial .viands; never the less,
appetite is the true guide.
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Gen. Geo. W. Gorden, com-
mander in chief of United Con-
federate Veterans, died at his
home in Memphis Wednesday.
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T«wns mi
A news-paper lean never very
creditably represent a town whose
business men 4o not advertise.
He may bowl
bragging about the
and enterprise of bis town but
the world will be slow to take
ins stattm-nt as true. It takes
mere than the unsupported test-
imonial ot the local newspaper
man to prove to the world that
his town is the best market and
the best place on earth to buy
goods. His evidence needs cor-
roboration.—Toyal Valley Her-
ald. *
State Press wbo sees small
mountains of news papers every
week is downright sorry for the
couragous souls who edit them—
a few of them.
These papers appear weekly with
well written editorials and snap-
py paragraphs boosting tbeir res-
pective towns and each telling
what a thriving promising little
city it is published in. A glance
at tbe advertising page or the
pages where advertising ought
to be\ shows that tbe space is
given over to plate matter and
miscellaneous reprint, and tbe
most of the merchants are dead
asleep. Now thisj much is cer-
tain and does not admit ot cer-
tain controvercy.l Every good
town maintains a good news pa-
per and the appearance of tbe
paper indicates its condition. If
the paper looks half starved
(granting of course that it is tbe
representative paper df the com-
munity) then the town is full of
tightwads, and a town full of
tightwads is a town full of the
kind of people.jwho will never do
anything to iafprovje their condi-
Piesic.
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There will be a two days pic-
ntc, Wednesday and Thursday,
Aug. 16, 17 at W. B Alleni old
pioneer home six miles N. W. ol
Honey Grove, in Bermuda Grass
pasture, under wide spreading
oaks. Pientv of water lor people
himself hoarse and stock and wood for camping
vim energyj purposes. Come every body.
Go .id music, speaking and g4mes.
J Taylor Align.
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Meeting at Beyt.
A.j Waller Gchres, County
Evangelist writes uf that the
meetiag at Boyd is rifeeting with
success. Last Sunday wan a*
grjat day, baptfems and dedica-
tion of new building. A basket
dinner was held upon the grounds
and great crowds came from the
surrounding country.
The meeting still continues-
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tions except to squeeze usurious
interests'out of needy borrowers.
Tnis is an advertising. age, the
age of printers idk: and mer-
chants that hive not found that
out are -ordinarilv not keen en-
ough to pick up bargains for their
customers.—Dallas News
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Henry Pope, of Sin Angelo,
stopped at the News office Tues-
day. Two weeks ago he passed
through Bonham ou bis way
north to Oklahoma where be vis-
ited relatives at Bokcbito. On
his return he made a short Visit
at his daughters, Mrs. Ai)edge,-
and from there will go to Nplan
County and arrive back home* in
a tew days.
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Monday’s Bane.
Bonham and Ardmore broke'
even on tbe four-game series at
Ardmore, Okla., winning two and
losing two. Tnraikill, ^ho
worked tor Ardmore, winning
both' ot Ardmore’s games, Hal^lip
who started for Bonham, was
batted out in the second. Jost
finishing tho»game. The scorei
Bonham .....0 4000000 0—♦
ArJtnore .....2 3000 1 00 *r-6
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Tae Binham team is taking a
vacation for a few days. They
are, however, playing at the La-
donta picnic this week.
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STANDING OF THE CLUBS.
Clubs- Played. Won. Lost. Pet.
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Cleburne...... 46
29
17
330.
Durant .....#0
23
17
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Bonhaq -... .47
26
21
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Ardmore.....45
22
23
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Wichita Falls. 41
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