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The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-09-06
FIVE FiREMEN ARE INJURED
Explosion Of Tank of Gasoline a,
Brooklyn Causes Loss Of Life.

Explosion or TANK OF Gasoline at
Brooklyn Causes Loss Of Life.
New York. Sept 6.-An exploding
tank of gasoline In the cellar of a
burning building on Havemeysr street,
Brooklyn. seriously injured Ave fire.
msn. Two Of the firemen. John Ken,
nedy and James Smith, probably will
die OF their injuries. The fire broke
out In a tenement house cellar. where
there was stored a quantity OF paint
and oils. The flremen. who had food
ed the cellar with water, were rolling
out a tank of gasoline when It ex-
ploded. Kennedy and Smith were
knocked down by the explosion and
the burning gasoline spread over the
water in the cellar and engulfed the
other firemen. All five of the iremen
we're finally rescued from the fiames
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Receiver for Iron Company.

New York. Sept. "a receiver was
appointed for the Union Iron and
Steel company. New York corpora
ton. by Judge Skeen OF the federal
court, sitting in Bristol. Va. l.. G
Petit Is named as receiver. The com
pany Is capitalized at s2.00O.OO0 and
owns furnaces and manufacturing
plants in several southern states and
In Michigan and New Jersey.
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PRELATE'S IMPOSING BURIAL
Solemn Ceremonies Attend Funeral o,
Archbishop Williams.

Boston, Sept. 5.-Honored by q
prince of the church. the cardinal
archbishop of Baltimore. his intimate
friend for upward OF half century,
by host of prelates and priests. by
the commonwealth of Massachusetts,
and city of Boston, where he was born,
the body of the Most Rev. John 10
sepb Williams, archbishop of Boston
and dean OF the Roman Catholic
hierarchy in the United States. was
placed in the crypt beneath the high
altar of the cathedral of the Holy
Cross, which stands as monument to
his labors.
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BRYAN TO TOUR NEW YORK.
Nebraska's Democratic Leader VIII
Assist League With Speeches.

New York, Sept. Reimbursement
was made that William J. Bryan will
begin q tour Of speechmaking in New
York state In October under the
auspices Of the New York Progressive
Democratic league. Mr.. Bryan Is
scheduled TO make an address at the
unwilling Of the Bennett statue in
New Haven on Oct, 30. and following
that will come To New York.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-09-06
Exonerated for Killing Black Hand.

Blairsville. Pa, Sept 5,-Frank
CiepInno. a shoemaker, who last Sat
urday night shot and killed one of the
three alleged members of the Black
Hand, who attempted to blackmail
him, was exonerated by a coroners
Jury on the grounds OF self-defense.
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Struck by Train and Fatally Hurt.

Sioux City. Sept. 5.-Ella Rice. aged
twenty-one, was struck on q crossing
by an Illinois Central train and ter
ribly mangled She was taken " 1 ID
hospital alive, but will die. The acct
dent occurred on sharp curve while
the girl was going home to supper.
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Receiver for Big Corporation.

Cincinnati. Sept 5.--Because OF the
mysterious disappearance In New
York of Seward Heidel Bach. presi-
dent OF the Fabian Manufacturing
company In this city, M. e. Moch was
appointed receiver Of that concern
and placed under a bond Of 5000. 900.
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TEDDY BEAR SUFFERS QUIT

Strike of One Branch of Workers Be
cause of Reduction In Wages.
New York, Sept. 5.-The first
strike in the Teddy bear trade has oc
CURED in this city. A strike of Teddy
bear makers took place in the factory
OF the Bruin Manufacturing company
Only the suffers quit work. the leg
arm, trunk and head artists refusing
to strike In sympathy. The strike was
against a reduction Of prices paid to
the suffers for piece work. The
manufacturers say there is no danger
Of q Teddy bear famine.
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Moldsrs Strike for Beer.

Evansville. Ind, Sept 5.-Over IT'S
iron molders went on a strike here be.
cause OF an order issued at the five
stove foundries preventing the drink.
ing of beer on the premises during
the noon hour.
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Kills Man Who EIoped With Wife

Dayton O., Sept, 5,-Fire Chief B.
H, Miller of Franklin. o.. shot and in.
stantly killed ]. H. Little, who recently
eloped with his wife Gnd was returned
to Franklin for trial, Miller entered
the police station and going directly
to Titles cell, fired two shots which
lodged in the victims breast. Mile
is now a rsving maniac and is under
guard.
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SLAIN THIEF IS SECOND HOCH
police Trace Murder Of Two Women
to Burglar Killed at Work.


New York, Sept. 5.-A second 10
ham Hoch. the police believe, has
been discovered in Henry Hoffmann,
the burglar who was killed while at
tempting to rob Charles Verrell's fiat
The police declared that Hoffman,
was the murderer Of Sophia Heckley,
servant girl found dead Aug. 3, and
they announce the belief that Hoff
mann also murdered Miss Lena
Schum, who was killed in Brooklyn
Aug. 20. Hoffmann's method, like that
of Hoch, the police say, was to make
the acquaintance of women OF his
own nationality and by pretending q
desire TO marry them, secure the op
portunity OF robbing, and If necessary
kill them.
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Postottiee Safe Robbed.

Fort Laramie. Wyo.. Sept. 5.-The
postoffice at Wincott. Wyo.. just east
Of here, was robbed and $54 and some
stamps were taken from \ drawer.
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the CONDITION OF TIT WtATAtR

Temperature for Twonty.four Hours.
Forecast For Nebraska.
Conditions OF tho weather ns record
cd for the twenty.four hours ending
Mt 3 a, m. today:
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IS MURDER COVERED Up?
GOVERNOR RECEIVES A LETTER
FROM MERRIck COUNTY.
MAY ORDER BODY ExHuMEp
A Letter Has Come to Governor Shell.
don From 121 lrate Citizens Of Mer.
rick County Charging That Murder
Was Covered Up.

TTUK OVuTT'y OHdTgTHy THAT WUTutT
Was Covered Up.
Lincoln, Neb., Sept. Especial to
The News: Governor Sheldon has a
s2tter from 121 citizens of Chapman
biS9g the sheriff, county attorney
: S1cg of Merrick county of COW
erins Get, aurder of James McGirr
in July.
McGirr's body was found on rail-
road track after being mistreated by
Greek laborers.
The governor may order the body
exhumed and an inquest held.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-30

For five years Mr.. Shaw hadn't once
thought of romance. He had been
busy suing folks and defending the
sued. He had got settled into a groove
that babe fair to become permanent,
and if his coffee was good and his
steak done to turn he asked for no
more. The married men he knew
might go hang themselves or live on
in misery. Then things took sudden
change. In returning from his club
to his bachelor quarters one night at
midnight he witnessed a collision be-
tween hack and street car The
street car couldn't turn out. and the
hack wouldn't. and so they came to-
gether with a crash OF course, some
one was drunk. The hackman on the
enc hand, and the motorman on the
was finally laid on the horse and re-
manned there. Many had been fright
ened but no one hurt. Some of the
passengers of the car became nervous
journey. AS for the lone passenger in
the hack, he was from Kalamazoo and
had never been in New York before.
He thought a collision went with
hack ride without extra cost. and he
had no sarcastic remarks to make.
When the incident had reached it's
end Mr.. Shaw resumed his way. but
he hadn't taken twenty steps when he
made a find on the sidewalk. 1t was a
white satin slipper, and it belonged to
woman with a dainty foot. The
finder admired it by lamplight and
then slipped it into his pocket. His
heart gave sort of funk as he did so.
Here was a seed of romance. A lost
slipper. A dainty slipper. A slipper
belonging to some fair female who had
fed from the collision in wild haste.
She must have been without an escort
or the slipper would have been search
ed for and found. What was hand
some woman doing that she was out
alone at midnight? Had the question
been put to him by a caller at his
office the lawyer would have answered
that she probably belonged to the
Tenderloin and charged ten dollars for
the information, but as it was he made
himself believe that it was far other
wise As he took the slipper out of his
pocket and looked at it with the eyes
of q man of the world and an old
loser was a damsel; that she was a
blond; that she had merry blue eyes;
that she had an aristocratic foot and
belonged to the four hundred. Real
old solid romance was bubbling and
seething in his bosom before he went
to bed that night. He may have thrust
+he slipper under his pillow. He may
have nut it into the pocket of his
nightshirt, so as to have it next his
heart.
If the slipper had looked cute and
dainty and aristocratic by gaslight, 1t
looked so per cent more so in the sun
shine of the morning. Instead of dy-
ing out, the romance dubbed the
harder Mr.. Shaw felt that he had a
case where the jury couldn't go back
thing before he went to breakfast.
Then he put it into his pocket and
carried it to his office and placed it on
his desk. His girl typist saw 1t there
and was properly shocked. A man
who wanted to sue another man be-
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The Most Pleasing

Is lot of more than thousand swell suits (and
have option on almost many more if we
care to buy them) made of the finest Mohair,
Tropical Worsteds, plain and fancy Serges, I'm
ported Cheviots, beautiful Homespuns, swell
Velours, Club Checks, Overplaids- absolutely
new Spring of 1907 and Midsummer garments
absolutely stylish garments, against which
the most fastidious dresser can lodge no criti-
cism. Coats in two button or three button; trous-
ers regular peg top belt straps; side buckles;
cuffs or without cuffs. Fully equal to the suits
offered in other stores as $685. $50 and $50 gar
ments for $15 to 500. Will send to any express
office in Kansas and if customer is not satisfied
will return the purchase price and pay the
express both ways.
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cause his dog had bitten him saw it
there and went away without suing.
An old woman who wanted to lend
some money on a mortgage saw 1t
there and went right off and consulted
a lawyer who had been married for
twenty years. None of these things
affected Mr.. Shaw, however. Over and
over again he inspected the heel-the
toe-the instep and the bow of satin,
and he always arrived at the same
conclusion. Fate had brought him to
the spot just in time to witness the
collision. Fate had led him to the
lost slipper. Fate would lead him to
the damsel who lost it, and they
would be married and live happy for
ever after.
Next day the papers contained a
carefully worded advertisement to the
effect that a gentleman who saw the
collision that took place in a certain
locality had made a find afterwards
to the loser. Some men would have
mentioned the slipper right out IN
print. Mr.. Shaw didn't do this, out Of
respect to the damsers feelings. If
she had been out Summing alone he
wasn't going to give her away to her
stern father or Mortified mother. 1t
was just mentioned as a find" and
the result was what might have been
expected. One man wrote that he had
lost a bottle of whisky in the crash
ing it back; another wrote that he had
missed wad of fourteen dollars, and
was glad to find an honest man;
third had lost his hat, and fourth
his cane, and three women wrote
about lost bags and backcombs. The
one who had lost the slipper didn't
write, however. Mr.. Shaw figured 1t
out that she hadn't got up early
enough in the morning to see the pa
per before the cook lugged it down
stairs. and he advertised again. No
answer from her. The only epistle
was from a party who claimed to have
lost his wooden leg in the accident,
and he dropped warning that 1t
must be returned within three days or
he would limp around to police head
quarters and set fifty detectives at
work on the case
For a third and fourth time Mr..
shaw ordered that advertisement in
serted. In fact, he made it It. f.
ad.. which means that it was to run
It'll forbidden. He felt that sooner or
later the damsel must see it. She was
no doubt wondering what chevalier
had picked it up. and she would Won
der until she turned to the papers,
The ad was given a place between a
bulldog for sale cheap and a second
hand farm wagon for sale at bar
gain. but he had faith that her eyes
would light on it. And Mr.. Shaw was
rewarded. The day came when his
office boy hunted him up at lunch and
told him that there was a lady waiting
at the office, and he almost ran the
four blocks. There was a lady. She
was a young lady. She was a colored
young lady. She had taken the sim
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local simply that opekab
clothing
t hp tn % known for year
N a o you'll go b n and hne1nn
Ina as spring ST. k b tpg Isow it cesar
value sci suso why nit 10 Sands
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per off of the desk and was holding it
in her hand.
Much obleeged,, boss" she said as
the lawyer stared at her.
Then it was you-you-?"
ut was me, sab. 1t was me and
julius. We had been to de show and
was comm home. Dat crash Topped
me down on de f1oh, and it Topped
Julius outer de back doah, and it was
while 1 was runnin' arter dat pesky
niger dat de slipper came off and
went home on my uppers. Yes, sab,
it's mine-cost me a dollar and a half
dat l washed fur and earned-and it
was mighty nice fur you to put dat
ad in de paper and help pore gal
find her missin' property. If Julius
wasn't still skeered and on de run I'd
have him
But Mr.. Shaw intimated that the in
terview was at an end and sat down to
study the case of Brown VS.. JONES'
copyrighted, 1907, by E. c. Par
cells.)
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NORTH TOPEKA NEWS.

Mr. c. c. Nicholson left today for
Colorado.
j. N. Henry made a business trip to
Kansas City today.
Frank Fiederling and Harry Ostrand
of Elmont were North side visitors to-
day.
Mrs. A. Peckham of 1909 Monroe street
will leave Friday for Kohoka for a
short visit.
Bread, the staff of life Urban at the
Model bakery makes the staff and other
good life supports. Try him.
Mrs. Lulu Philburn and daughters,
Helena and Margaret, of Silver Lake,
left last evening for Tyron, Okla.
A. NJ. Cross and son Fred returned
last evening from Downs, Kansas, where
they visited friends since Friday.
Mrs. T. D. Joseph of lib Jackson
street, went to Butler county today for a
short visit to Mr.. Joseph's relatives.
Mrs. Edith Hill Booker will preach
next Sunday both morning and evening
in the North Topeka Baptist church.
Misses Ethel and Eva Fffer of VAL
lev Falls will arrive the last of the
week and be the guests of Miss Edith
Gabriel.
The North Topeka w. c. T. u will
meet at the home of Miss Towne, 1122
Van Buren, street, Thursday afternoon
at o'clock
Mrs. Gus Bernstein and children of
Salina, were the guests today of Mr..
and Mrs. c. A. Fernstrom of 1872 jack
son street.
Rev. Walter E. Tanner. formerly pas
tor of the North Topeka Baptist church,
is now in Salt Lake City where he has
ordered his mail sent.
w. G. Brooks, the colored orator who
hurt his back and one of his knees Sat
urday is confined to his bed as a re-
suit of these injuries.
Rev and Mrs. John Tracy arrived
today from Shelbyville, Ill, for visit
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to Mrs. Tracy's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Aaron Sheetz, of 1892 Quincy street.
Mrs. w. A. Forbes, Miss Hazel Forbes
and Master Ben Forbes and Mrs. Robert
Rigdon will leave next Monday for
Manitou where they will spend month.
Harmony Rebekah Circle will meet
with Miss Frances Short and Miss Ellen
Holiday at the Holiday home, S33 Mad
ison street Friday evening at o'clock.
Clifford Nystrom, who is taking a
course of electrical engineering at K
u, Lawrence, has taken a position for
the summer with the Edison company
The boys of Mrs. L E. Anderson s
Sunday school class at the North To-
peka Baptist church, will have a pic
mic and fishing excursion tomorrow at
Osawkie.
F. B. Simms of the Gem laundry has
commenced to break the ground for
his new laundry building on the lots
Immediately north of his home. SIS
Kansas avenue.
The Temple Builders will have a
social tea at the home of Mrs. George
Hosfeldt. 1927 Western avenue. south,
Wednesday afternoon. Max Hoffman
is expected to be present.
Mr.. and Mrs. V. r. Lunger and little
son, Freddy of Emmett. Kan, who
have been the guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
]. c. Todd of 1902 Jackson street. re-
turned to their home today.
Mrs. J. c. Morehead and sons. Glen
and DeVoe, of 1881 Quincy street, left
this evening for Birmingham, Mo, to
visit relatives. From there Glen will go
to Trenton and other points in the state
Mr. and Mrs. Oran Layton Of 1920
Jackson street are the parents of
daughter, born last night, to whom
they have given the name of Florence
Elizabeth. Mrs. Layton was formerly
Miss Cora Priddy.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Gabriel of En-
poria, will celebrate their golden we'd
ding Friday, August 2. Their sons, D.
T. Gabriel of this city, George Gabriel
and wife of Dennison, Kan, and John
Gabriel and wife of Arlington, will go
to Emporta for the event.
Union Sunday school of Indianola
will have a picnic Friday, August 2, at
the county farm grove. Wagons will
be at the school house at half past
o'clock Friday morning to convey the
children to the grounds. All members
and friends are invited to come and
bring their lunch baskets.
Mrs. W.. H. Rutter is in Spring HILL
Kansas, where she accompanied her
sons, Warren and Merrill, who will visit
their grandmother, Mrs. Smith. during
the absence of their parents in Colorado.
Mr.. Rutter will join Mrs. Rutter Friday
in Kansas City and from there they
will go to Manitou where they will spend
two weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Nystrom enter
tanned at a garden party Friday even
ing at their home. 1919 jackson street,
in honor of their niece. Miss Charlotte
Lundberg of Cherokee. Iowa. and of
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their son, Mr.. Clifford Nystrom, whose
twentieth birthday anniversary was
celebrated that day. The lawn was
brightly lighted with numerous Jap
anese lanterns and made unusually at
tractive for the occasion. Ice cream,
cake and bonbons were served while
the punch bowl was in charge of Miss
Matilda Nor1in. Invitations were ex-
tended to Misses Edith, Anna and
Bertha johnson, Miss Edith Pierson,
Miss Hattie Bloomquist, Miss Hide
gard Nelson of Salina Miss Esther
Larson of Ottawa. Miss Frida Nell
gren. Miss Esther Sherlin, Miss Anna
Wennergren. Miss Evelyn Espilin, Miss
Izora Graves, Miss Mamie Anderson,
Miss Anna Ekstrom. Miss Anna Good
man, Miss Nina Nystrom. Miss Hulda
Wingblade, Miss Alice Eklun, Miss
Anna Nystrom. Mr.. Will Nelson of
Boston, Mass. Mr.. Anderson of Brook
Ign. N Y. Mr.. Pete Pierson of Kansas
City Mr.. Alfred Wingblade Mr.. Henry
Wingblade, DR.. Eklin. Mr.. A. Watts.
Mr. A!sted, Mr.. Roy OFT, Mr.. Earl
Laxman. Mr.. Grant Laxman, Mr..
Elmer Linblade. Mr.. Theodore John
son, Mr.. Harry Warden. Mr.. Jones.
Mr.. Ljolander. Mr.. Carl Wicklund. Mr.
Theodore Erickson and Mr.. Ellick
ESpelen.
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VOTING MACHINE QUESTION.
Kansas Company Hopes to Have One
Ready for Meeting Tonight


The proposition of the Kansas Vot-
poration, which intends to manufac-
ture voting machine, the invention
of ]. P. Painter of this city, was re-
ferred to the ways and means COM
mittee of the council last night. The
committee will meet this evening to-
gether with such members of the
council as care to be present and go
over the proposition outlined last
evening; The company has not got
the parts of its machine assem- bled yet
and for this reason has delayed in at
tempting to sell to the city.
1t is promised that the machine will
be on display this evening. The city
council entered into provisional con-
tract with the Column bia voting ma
chine company, for fifteen machines.
This contract is to go into effect on
August list, provided the city does not
purchase the local company's ma
chine.
John Q. Royce. ~ho is president of
the Kansas company. appeared before
and council! and wanted the Columbia
company to grant an extension of
time beyond August LIST, but the latter
had no disposition of granting the re-
quest.
H. G. Larimer also appeared for
the Kansas company while A. NJ. Har-
vey appeared for the Columbia com
pany.
The local company's machine is
priced at 5000 while the Columbia
machine is priced at 500. The ma
chimes are to be delivered next fall
annual installments.
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a BACHELOR QUEST.
(Rv M OnadN

10y M. quail
should the reader be one of the kind
that wants to know. you know, then l
Will explain that Charles Shaw. the
Dachelor lawyer, was bachelor at 40
because romance and law seldom go
together, and because on two different
occasions the jury had brought in a
verdict against him. I mean by this
latter that the young women he pro-
Tosed to had decided not to link their
lives with his. Few men, unless they
are widowers with children to look
after and with hogs and hens to feed
and look after. seldom make a third
proposal of marriage. When turned
down for the second time they become
discouraged. Mr.. Shaw had become
discouraged. When he heard men talk
about the family hearthstone he smiled
cynically. When he heard of clipping
wives he smiled gleefully. When any
one asked him why he didn't marry
and have some one 10 meet him at the
gate on his return home at night he
smiled sardonically.
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Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That
Contain Mercury,

as mercury will surely destroy the sense
of smell and completely derange fbe
Whoie system when entering it thro,ie965
the mucous surfaces. Such articles shouid
never be used except on prescriptions
thew viii do IS tenfold to the good v6u
can possibIy derive from them. Halls ca
nev & Co, Toledo. O., contains no mer-
nnTTv and is taken internally, acting di
recflv upon the blood and mucous sur
fsces of the system. In buying Halls Ca
tarrh cure be sure you get the genuine
I4 is taken internally and made in Toledo
ohio. by F. ]. Cheney & Co. Testimoniais
free.
T Sold by Druggists. Price, 75c per bottle
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$4,000 YEARLY INTEREST.
The Figures SHOW That Leavenworth
Is Heavily in Debt.

Leavenworth. Kan. July 30.-This city
is now carrying bonded debt of half a
million dollars, paying in interest $25,-
the money that came in, it is charged
from the joints. the city officials in
creased their salaries s., 900 a year and
increased the expenses of the police de-
partment $4,000 a year and added other
expenses, making a total increase of
$4,000 a year.
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Becker Sent to Insane Asylum.

New York. July 3o.-Henry Becker.
the youth who was charged by the po-
lice with having murdered Amelia Stat
feldt, who was stabbed while picking
dandelions near her home in Corona,
L. l., has been formally committed to
a state hospital for the insane
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1 wish to express my thanks to
friends and neighbors for their kind
ress during the sickness and death of
my wife. PETER SELTZ.
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Ages z 10 10, shown
in Sales as 81 and SIS
values for So. As
Priced 60 7E
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