Nebraska Newspapers

    RED CLOUD, NEBRASKA, CHIEF
Russian Nobles ,
Now Work Hard
Rcfugces, Impoverished by the
Bolsheviki, Help Each Other
in Warsaw.
MME. LUBINOFF IS LEADER
Conducts Relief and Commands Ad
mirals, Generals and Governors
Peel Potatoes and Chop Wood In
Psland for a Living.
Worsow. Driven from pnlnco to
Imvcl, some or tlie members or. the
aristocracy of old Russia now nre peel
ing potatoes or chopping wood here
for a living.
Five thousand men and women nnd
children, boiiic of whoso resounding
titles once brought them homage of
courtlerM, aro chiHtered here nfter hav
InR fled to Poland before the Holslic
vlkl. Helping them to help themselves
Is Mine. Ludmlln Lublnoff, herself a
refuges, though born a princess or
one of the oldest Husslan houses and
the- wife of the former civil governor
of Warsaw.
Tbis rcmnrknblo woman Is conduct
lug soup kitchens, sewing rooms and
workshops for members of her unhnp
py class, and taking orders from her
nro men wlio once communded the
anned forces of the Russian emperor
On her staff tiro admirals, generals,
governors, mayors and members of the
old I'etrogrnd court, while her husband
has laid aside his gubernatorial duties
to become her secretary.
A Woman of Action.
) A beautiful woman, she hides the
tragedy of her life under an optimism
that Is an example to the unhappy folk
to whom she ministers. A woman of
fiction, too, for bho escaped from Petro
4rad with her two sons after freeing
fcer husband from the fortress of Peter
and Paul and arming him with a ficti
tious passport that eunbled him to tlec
to Warsaw. Here the family was re
united. Selling virtually all (the possessed
to aid her fellow countrymen, Mine.
LublnolT organized the Warsaw branch
of the ltusslau Ited Cross, which Is
being aided by the American organiza
tion. Sparing not herself, Mrue. LublnolT
has not spared the colony of refugees
which Included many of tho former
Husslan nobility. In the soup kitchen
and wood yard, which she has estab
lished In a Husslan orthodox church
nt 5 l'odwal a squalid property placed
at her disposal aro working men and
women of title at tasks which once
servants performed for them.
In the dingy littlo courtyard Gen
eral Oblonsky, formerly architect nt
tho Husslan court, chops wood for a
living with several olllcers of tho
crack Imperial guards, one of whom
lias lost his reason and must he
watched. In n small and dirty build
ing Prince Meschcisky, who was mas
ter of ceremonies nt the Imperial court,
peels potatoes for his dally bread.
Nobility as Servants.
In the crowded rooms the meals
are served by women of the Russian
nobility Princess Hukoff, widow of
Admiral HukolT, who wns executed by
rhe llolshevlkl ; Princess Ouchtonisk,
whose husband wns reputed one of
the richest men In I'etrogrnd and Is
now cashier In tho next room n( 4,tXX'
Polish marks a month, the equivalent
of ?4 today, and Mine. ICoudravatsky,
widow of the vice mayor of I'etrogrnd,
who was put to death by the Hed rev
olutionists. Colonel KesselnefT of the Imperial
llusslan Guards runs errands for Mine.
LublnolT, and refugees who collapse
from exhaustion while waiting for
their food are attended by Mile. Car
agestolT. a former wealthy resident of
Petrograd, now n nurse.
Working In an American Hod Cross
warehouse are twenty olllcers of the
Imperial Guards regiment bended by
II. Hlekshensky, n lawyer of Kleff,
who arrived In the Polish capital
Mississippi Wild Man and His Wife
Albert Parsons, tho ','wlld mnn" of tho Loaf river bottoms, Mississippi, bin
flfty-yeur-old wife, whom ho says ho caught in u benr trap 23 years ago, nnd
,iils two-yenr-old baby girl, who strayed to civilization, like people of another
age. They had been driven out of their home, a shack on a strip of laud in
p& isoluted section, by high water.
wlthont underclothing or footwear. He
said his sister had been killed tills
winter by the llolshevlkl and that
the capital of the Ukraine hud become
a city of the dead.
Mine. LublnolT boasts n storehouse
about the size of ui American house
wife's pantry, which Is In chargo of
Michael Shramcheiiko, the son of the
governor of Tchernlkoff, who wns
killed by tho llolshevlkl. The assist
ant storekeeper Is Victor Horseuko,
who was governor of Novgorod.
3,700 CHINESE WORK ROADS
Employed In Railway Construction,
Relief Body Reports own's
Girls Sold.
Pekln. The engineering department
of tho American Hetl Cross famine
relief organization rcportB that up to
the end of December, 3,700 Chinese
had been employed In rullroad con
struction. -
The men nro In chnrgo of division
engineers sergeunts from tho Pekln
guard, who have as assistants privates
from the guard.
Tho line under construction extends
from Tcchow to Llntslng on the Chi-hll-Shantung
border.
In one district u census of families
showed that beforo relief urrlved nil
girls between nine and fourteen yenrs
of age In two villages had been sold.
A shipment of foodstuffs brought
by the United States transport Mor
rltt was moved from Chlngwangtno
to Tehchow with little delay.
RULER IS VICTIM
OF ROYAL FLUSH
Amar Alayam, Tribal King of Ar
menia, Lands in Jail
in Minneapolis.
POKER GAME HIS UNDOING
Seeks to Rally His Tribesmen to Re
gain Heritage of His Fathers
Turns to Gambling to Sup
ply Necessary Funds.
Minneapolis. Amur Aluyum, by
right of birth a tribal king of Arme
nia, Is a prisoner in the Hennepin
county Jail, held there on the charge
of giving u worthless ?50 check to
redeem his losses at poker and ufrald
to summon his clansmen to his aid for
fear they would repudiate tho leader
ship of a iniui In a felon's cell.
At least such was the story told by
Alayam to Floyd H. Olson, county at
torney, from whom he besought u
recommendation of probation that he
might once more rally his tribesmen
und seek with them to regain the her
itage of his fathers.
Ten years ago Alayam, according to
tho story ho told Mr. Olson, became
the king of his tribe In Armenia upon
the death of bis father, Abu Alayam.
Abu had been a btrong ruler. Ho
bad nninsscd hinds and fortune. Dur
ing his lifetime ho hud held at bay
the emissaries of the Turkish sultans
who had sought to despoil his lands.
Upon his death tho Turks came.
Looted by Turks.
Alayam was but u youth of twenty
two at thnt time. Marauding Turks,
backed by tho power of the Sultan,
seized upon tho richest of his Inheri
tance. It was useless to resist their
strength by force. For money they
promised to release tho farms of his
fathers, so, gathering about fifty of
Ids young men, Alayam came to Amer
ica, the Innil of fabled fortunes.
After the custom of' the Armenian
Immigrants, Alnyam was spokesman
for his tribesmen In tho new land. It
OIL HAS MADE HER RICH
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Twenty-ono yenrs ngo Miss Ella
Tarrnnts became owner of a 200-ncre
fnnn near Howling Green, Ky., willed
to her by an old lady whom she had
nursed for somo years. For 21 years
Miss Tnrrnnt and her family mnde n
bare living raising tobacco nnd corn.
Not long ngo oil wns discovered on tho
fnnn. Today Miss Tarrant's Income
from the many wells which have been
drilled Is about $100 n duy.
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Year's Round of Red
Tape All for Six
Nuremberg. An automobile
carrying the license No. 11 B
488 passed through tho town
of Schwabnch Inst November
without paying tho toll of 40
pfennigs (normally eight cents,
but at the present rato of ex
change three-fifths of ono cent). i
uiuiuiu to ascertain wnn z
owned the enr, the Schwabnch
police chief reported to Uio
Germnn ministry of the interior,
which turned tho matter over
to tho Bnvarlan Torelgn minis
ter. Then tho report went
through Munich polleo depart
ment, tho Schwnbach board of
nldernien, nnd a score of hands
to tho agricultural council of
tho Palatinate, which found thnt
the automobile belonged to tho
state of Ilnvnrln and therefore
was not subject to tho Sehwu
bach municipal toll.
On January 20, Inst, tho
Schwabuch town government
was informed of the result of
an Investigation that had Ins't
cd more than ono year. And all
about 40 pfennigs.
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wns through him that they hired out
for vurlous occupations. A tltho of
their wages they gave to Aluyum, who
hoarded tho money that ho might go
bnck to ransom his kingdom from tho
Turks.
Almost enough money wus raised to
accomplish tho purposo when tho
world war came. Upda tho heelB of
news of the war came tidings of tho
ravishing of Armenia by tho Turks.
Tales or tho suffering of his country
men caused Alayam to ikbaudnu his
dream or going back to his kingdom.
The money saved for that purposo he
sent overseas, n contribution to tho
Armenian relief funds. Many of his
colonists returned to enlist as soldiers
to tight ngalnst tho Turks. Tho rest
were scattered.
Still tin who remained continued
to give n part of their wages to Ala
yam and he stayed on In this country,
feeling that tho money he could rnlso
here would bo of moro valuo to his
countrymen than his presence In Ar
menia as a common soldier.
Turns to Gambling.
Tho end of the vnr was also tho and
or Alayain's resources. So many or
his colonists had gono back to Arme
nia that tho contributions or tho re
maining were scarcely enough to nT
rord their chieftain a living. Desper
ate nt tho thought thnt return to his
fatherland might never be realized,
Alayam began to gamble, seeking, ho
told Mr. Olson, to multiply tho tithes
of his colonists luto tho Tprtune ho
needed.
Hut Instend or winning Alayam lost.
With money gono he gave n worthless
check Tor $50 for a last stack of chips
and those, too, were lost. Alayam was
arrested.
In his plen to tho county nttornoy
Alnynm begged for n recommendation
of probation. Ho could call his follow
ers together then, ho said, and would
depart with them for their old homo
In Armenia. Kven without monov
Alnynm was confident ho could rally
his father's tribesmen and, with tho
power of Turkey weakened, regain
ugaln IiIb heritage.
NEWS OF STATE
TERSELY TOLD
Recent Happenings in Nobraska
Given in Erief Items For
Busy Rcadcra.
i.m
Oinnhn police recently nrrested CO
nutomoblle speeders In one day.
Tho Onl Retail Dealers' association
has designated April (1 as Hargnln
duy.
The new $00,000 public school build
ing at Hlue Springs was dedicated last
week.
Tlu; state Federation of Women's
flubs will meet In Omaha April HI
and 14.
James S. Ewart, a prominent grain
man of Lincoln, Is dead from a stroke
of rpoploxy.
A lodge of the Brotherhood of
American Yoomen hns been organized
nt Superior with u charter member
ship of 7.r.
A Hcbcl-mli lodge has been organized
nt Liberty, with a charter membership
of forty-two.
The census .shows there nro sixteen
persons to every square nJllo of terri
tory In Nebraska.
Tornndlc winds last week caused
considerable damnge to a number of
towns over the state.
The state legislature is making
plans to llulsh up Its work and ad
Journ nbout April 10.
Nearly fifty were baptised and 12T
received Into the Methodist church at
Sydney Easter Sunday.
Hew Charles .Savldge, the Oinnhn
"Marrying Parson," has Just perform
ed his 5,000th ceremony.
Eighty converts were baptized In
the river nt Taylor as the result of
the revival meetings Just closed by
congregational church there.
The nineteenth child has Just been
born to Mr. nnd Mrs. George Kncppor,
living on n farm near Salem.
Hev. W. L. Bright, pastor of the
First Lutheran church of Nebraska
City, has tendered his resignation.
Dean J. A. Tnncock, former pallor
of Trinity cathedral nt Omaha, Is now
pastor of a church at San Franslseo.
Odd Fellows of the state will cele
brate nt Omaha April .t0, the 102d an
niversary of tho founding of that or
der. Eggs havo dropped at Callaway
from 1!) cents to 11 cents per dozen,
nnd local dealers expect them to go
lower.
A temporary water famine Is feared
at Callaway. Mains have burst und It
will be several days before repairs
can be mnde.
The M unlock electric light system
has begun serving patrons. The power
Is brought from Omaha on a high
tension line.
Huvenna Is having a siege of sear
let Tever, three or four cases having
been reported nnd (lunrantlned within
the past week.
The body of C. Huben, an Omaha
grocer, was found lying In u pool m"
blood In tho rear of his sto:e. with
ltls throat slushed.
At the collection taken up at St.
Michael's church of Spalding for tl-o
relief of the suffering people of Ire
land $1,000 was raised.
The lSth annual convention of tho
Second district. Nebraska Federation
of Women's Clubs, will meet In Omaha
at the Y. W. C. A. April V.l
On account of the difference In price
of 4 to S cents In favor of Callaway,
a large amount of wheat and corn Is
being hauled to that point from other
towns.
With the present plenitude or labor,
the Union Stock Yards company of
Omaha tells tho railway commission
it will niAV bo nblo to provide full
ciows on switch engines.
Superintendent Fred D. Schneider,
who has had charge or the Cedar
Haplds school for the last three years,
has been elected to head the Loup
City Schools for next year.
At the Northwestern Nebraska Bas
ketball tournnment nt Chudron, nt
which sixteen counties were repre
sented, Alliance won first place, Chad
ron second nnd Long Pine third.
Automobile thieves, who hud stolen
n mnchlne from Oeorge Hoover or Elk
horn, finally abandoned It nenr Fre
mont, nfter stripping It of everything'
but the engine, body and wheels.
The Hev. Louis E. Humphrey, for
tjie past three years pastor of the
First Presbyterian church nt Litchfield,
has resigned to take up work In the
presbytery of Boulder, In Colorado
Ansley Is to have an open nlr pic
ture show this summer. Hoy Patter
son, former owner of the Sun Iho
utor, which burned to the ground, will
bo the promoter.
Test borings to determine the mi
lure of tho soil structure Tor the new
Nebm..ka snpltol havo been made nt
the four corners of tho proposed build
ing, to a depth of over 100 feet.
. Following thu discovery of S."i coun
terfeit dolbus In a park nt Oinalin,
sicret service operatives and polleo
use endeavoring to find u band of
counterfeiters believed Lj be operating
In that city.
Superintendent J. It. Armstrong of
the Wayne public schools has tender
ed his resignation to tnko effect at the
clopo of tho present school year.
The Haiidolpb Community club has
taken over tho management of thu lo
cal band, will hire u competent Instruc
tor, nnd expects to hno shortly one of
the best musical organizations In north
eastenr Nebraska,
Leon Clark of tlto McCook Equity
Creamery department had a narrow
escapo from death when he used u gal
lon of gasoline to start a llro thinking
It was lubricating oil. He was badly
burned on the hands und body.
Tccumseh will make efforts to se
cure n part or nil of Its water supply
fiom artesian wells.
Dalton has voted $21,000 bonds for
tho erection of a electric transmission
lino from Sydney to that place.
Joseph Hlrsch, a farmer living near
Hnvenna, diopped dead on his front
porch. Up had been In uppnrcnt good
health.
The r0th anniversary of the arrival
of the Soldiers' Free Homestead col
ony nt (libbon will bo celebrated
April 7.
The district convention of the I. O.
O. F., held ut David CHy hist week,
was one of the most successful held In
recent years.
The ninth annual spring meeting of
Nebraska live stock feeders will bo
held at the College of Agriculture, ut
Lincoln, April l,"i.
While winching for n street car,
Helen Farr, a Kl-year-old Omaha girl,
had two braids of hair clipped from
her head by some miscreant.
Eluxen of tho corps of sixteen teach
ers In the West Point city schools havo
declined tho appointment. The pro
vnlllng low salaries Is apparently tho
cause
As a result of the Joint efforts of
the community club and the city coun
cil. Madison will have a tourist park,
equipped to take care of the needs of
uutolsts.
Hundicds of dollars' worth of feed
wus destroyed when the bnrn on the
falvln Duncan farm, near Wymorc,
wus struck by lightning and totally
destroyed.
According to figures Just mnde pub
lic by the Stnte Department of Trade,
bank deposits In the state have fallen
off over tfltt.OOO.OOO n the four months
ending February 2.1.
Two-thirds of the herd of Short
horns on the Bowman ranch near Hen
trice, have been found to be tiiberculur,
us result of an Investigation conducted
by n local veterinarian.
Otis Hyers, state sheriff, has offered
a reward of .f20 for Information lead
ing to the arrest of F. H. Clarldge,
missing president of the defunct Bank
ing House of Cnstottor of Blair.
Platte county Is now equipped to do
Its own road building, through tho
purchase' of one of the big grading
outfits operated by the slate depart
ment of public works lust year.
11. M. Wells, who has gone Into the
poultry business near Auburn, prob
ubly has the largest Incubator In the
state. The Incuabtor Is built in sec
tions und has a total capacity of 7,fi00
eggs.
Heductlon of the number of Nolim.
ki's Judicial districts from eighteen to
nlno with two nddltlonnl Judges u'
lowed for each district, bus received
the approuil of the lower legislative,
branch.
Stock to the extent -of S100.000 will
be subscribed by Oiimlui Jews for the
pin pose of establishing an Omaha
colony In the heart of Palestine, under
the direction of the .Ion common
wealth.
Tbeie are nearly 1,000 colonies of
bees in Douglas county, according to
H. O. Cook, pres.dent of the Douglas
County Honey Producers' association,
und the number Is constantly on the
increase.
The Increase In parcel post business
lit Wymore lias necessitated the em
ployment of nn addltluial carrier for
'Ity delivery, und whoso work will be
confined entirely to the delivery of
parcel post packages.
The fourteenth annual encampment
of the United Spanish War veterans,
department of Nebraska, will convene
at Lincoln, on June 12, 111 and 14. This
encampment will be a reunion of nil
Spanish war veterans.
Will Heed Dunroy, dramatic editor
end newspaper man, u former Lincoln
boy and university graduate, Is dead
In Chicago, supposedly of alcohol poi
soning, caused by "inoonhlne" whis
ky taken to secure relief fvx a cold.
It Is estimated that farmers of Chey
enne county spent nearly u million dol
lars last year In various kinds of
worthless stocks. The county farm
bureau will endeavor to protect them
against a repetition of the experience.
For the tlrst time In the history of
Cage county women nssessors will
participate In. the annual assessment
campaign which opened April 1. Mrs.
Vernn Pugsley and Mrs. W. W. Dun
can of Beatrice are the first of their
sex to be appointed as precinct as
sessors. The first carload of cattle and hogs
to be sent by u charitable Institution
in Nebraska, was received at the South
Omaha stock yards last week from
the Odd Fellows state home ut York.
The hogs, which, with the cattle, bad
been raised by thu Institution, topped
the market.
Tin; Illoomlleld band which has been
disorganized for several seasons, is
to be iigalu brought to Ufe, with u
membership of nbout twenty pieces.
A petition with 22." signatures ask
ing that the Sunday molu quest'lon
be put on the ballot at the spring elec
tion has been filed with the city clerk
of Huntings.
Deputy Sheriff Tolles Wlntersteen
or Fremont narrowly escaped death
when he sunk In quicksand to his arm
pits In the Platti! river, while search
ing the liver banks und Islands for Il
licit whisky btlls. lie was rescued by
companions.
The annual encampment of tho
State O. A. It. and Its all led organiza
tions and auxiliaries, will ho held nt
Hastings May 2.'), 21 and 25.
The Chudron Hotury club Is plan
ning to send n bridal couple to thu In
ternational notary meet ut Edinburgh,
SciMlaml, this summer If couples with
matrimonial Intentions will take mem
bers Into their confidence.
Nebraska has 427 different varieties
of birds, Texas and California alone
liming more, according to Dr. Solon
Towno of the Omaha Audobon soci
ety. Most birds from tho north pass
thiough this state on their way soutli.
HITATTAXD0DGEB5
NEW LAW PROVIDES HEAVY PEN.
ALTY FOR PERSON3 FAILING
TO REPORT PROPERTY
ABETTORS INJ5AME CLASS
Anyone Assisting Taxpayers to Dodge,
Payment In Same Class As
Evaders and Subject to
the Same Penalties
Lincoln. Individuals, firms, or cor
porations which couiiBcl, aid or abot
taxpayers In evading tho proposed
tax on Intangibles money, credits,
stock, notes or bondB aro to bo raotod
out tho prccl3o penalties that tho law
provides for tho tax ovadcr himself.
This amendment was offered on tho
floor of tho senate by Senator John
W. Cooper, of Douglas, hcretoforo an
antagonist to tho revised rovenuo bill.
Tho revenue committee endorsed tho
amendment, and tho sonata commit
too or tho wholo approved it.
This was tho only amendment of
consequence thnt tho revenue com
mittoo permitted to got Into tho bill,
outsldo of committee amendments add
ed from day to day.
A committee amendment was added:
to tho bill making It unluwful for
county boards, city councils or other
tax-levying bodies, to levy a tax of
moro than 20 por cent of the levy on
actual valuation. Levies providod In
tho statutes prior to 1921 aro on tho
basis of assessed' valuation, or ono
fifth actual value. This amendment i
to make tho lovlcs conform.
About tho only reatirro of tho now
law that did not stir up protest watt
tho soctlon providing for finding the
valuo of franchises, and taxing them
as tanglblo property. In fixing this,
valuo tho assessors miiBt consider
market valuo of tho stock, dividends
and surplus Indebtedness, cost and
porlod of tho rrnnchiso and capitaliza
tion ot tho company. Hcretoforo
franchises havo not been taxed.
In the class subject to this fran
chise tax tho proposed law Includes,
street railways, water works, electric
light and gas plants, mines, express,
telephone and telegraph companies,
and pipe lines, Including companies,
piping steam heat.
Approve Antl-Plcketlng Bill
Prohibition of picketing by atrlkora.
to persuade men at work to quit their
Jobs Is favored by the Nobraska hoime
of representatives, but it wants no In
dustrial commission to handle labor
disputes and restrain profiteering
practices In trade.
Tho Randall bill making it a viola
tion of law to Interfere with any per
son In tho cxerclso of his right to
work, by talking to him against hla
will, following him, from pluco to
plnco and using abuslvo laugungo or
other means or Intimidation, was ap
proved for passage.
But tho Epperson bill to establish
nn Industrial commission was Indef
initely postponed.
Governor Signs Several Bills
Governor McKelvio haa signed tho
standard loaf bread bill, also tho fol
lowing other bills:
S. F. CI-Raising salary of court re
porters from ?2.000 to ?2,G090 a year.
II. R. 411 Lincoln consolidation bill.
H. H. 210 Incorporation of Ameri
can Legion and Greek letter sociotles.
H. It. 1G1 Raising Interest on f!i,
000,000 Omaha school bonds and per
mitting tholr snlo below par
II. H. 440 Stato hall Insurance bill,,
with emergency clause.
II. H. 273 Requiring organizers or
Insurance to bo qualified In exporlenco
nnd to publish, notices ot incorpora
tion. Excavating for New Capitol Base
A hugo motorized- shovel foclonglnB
to tho state highway department is ex
cavating oil tho capital grounds for u
test to bo made of tho ability of tho
sandstone stratum under tho grounds
to bear up tho proposed now stato
capital.
Tho shovel will dig a hole about
fifteen root In diameter and from
twenty to thirty foot doop, tho depth
at which tho sandstono starts.
It is understood to bo tho plan to
Imposo on a given area of tho sand
stone a weight oqulvalont to tho pro
portionate weight of tho now building;
on that area, to determine its Blip,
porting choracter.
To Hasten Adjournment
All houso bills not roported out for
tho sifting filo In tho lower leglslatlvo
chamber aro now dead by vlrtuo ot
a motion which Hoprcsontativo Axtell
presented nnd tho houso adopted.
Whllo approving UiIb plan to huston
final adjournment, tho houso refused
to overturn its rulca by limiting de
bate on bills heroaftor to flvo minute?
for each spealtar.
Governor's Veto Is Sustained
Difforont factional groupB In tho rop
refiontativo dlot split up on tho ques
tion of passing; over Governor McKel
vlo'a veto tho Mosoloy bill governing
appointments to fill vacancies for
United States senator, stato eonntorH
and roprcsontatives. By 70 votes to.
2G, tho voto was sustained.
Prohibition Bill Reported Out
Tho houso Judiciary covimlftoo has
roported out S. F. 185, prohibition en
forcement monauro which applies cer
tain provisions of tho Volstead act
to tho Btato law. Tho net makes it
unlawful to ndvortlBO any nnd all de
vices, proparntionB and formulas for
tho purposo of manufacturing Intoxi
cants. It Is declared unlawful to man
ufacturer intoxicants or maintain u,
ntlll for tho manufacturo of alcohol or
whisky or mash.
Tho bill provldcB for n fino of from
C00 to $5,000 for offenders.
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