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VOL. XI. NO. 26.
UICMEi
m SEEKS
TILT M
WILSDti
Intends to Make Sharp Reply
Today to Jersey Governor’s
Buffalo Speeech.
DECLARES HE HAS TWO
OLD PARTIES ON THE RUN
Confidence of Bull Moose Chief
Grows as He Swings Into
Middle West.
MUNCIE, TND, Sept. B.—“ The two
eld parties are scared; they are doing
all they can to beat me. I’ll give them,
a hard fight. We'll win out, too.”
This utterance of Colonel Roosevelt
today as his train stopped at this city
evinced the confidence the ex-preai
dent is beginning to have as to his
ultimate chance of winning the elec
tion. While Roosevelt considers that
he has the fight of his life on his hands,
he expects that, as the campaign goes
along, he will be able to swing the
sentiment his own way.
The attitude of the crowds in Con
necticut yesterday, coming on the
heels of the whirlwind campaign in
Vermont, impelled the colonel to say
that the Progressive party is gaining
In force. He wants to get Woodrow
■Wilson into the open in an aggressive
battle so that he can puncture his ar
mor.
Doesn’t Want, To
Mention Taft.
Ts he can avoid It, Roosevelt will have
little to say about President Taft, de
siring to give the Impression that he
regards the president as out of the
race. His allusions to the president
up to this time have been brief. He
has attacked the Republican party’s
platform and the performances of the
Taft administration, but has refrained
from indulging in any severe assult on
the president Individually.
Roosevelt read on the train this
morning of the attack made upon him
by Governor Wilson in Buffalo. He
observed that he will take up the cud
gels against Wilson at once. In his
St. Louis speech late today it is ex
pected that the colonel will make sharp
reply to the governor.
Due To Reach
St. Louis Late Today.
Roosevelt’s schedule gets him to St.
Louis late this afternoon. He remains
until 7:40 o’clock, when he rushes on
to St. Paul.
The colonel was disappointed great
ly this morning when he learned that
a crowd of 5,000 persons had waited at
the depot at Syracuse tn the rain last
night in a vain effort to see him.
Roosevelt was fast asleep after a
fatiguing day when the train pulled
into Syracuse at 10 o'clock, and his sec
retary declined to awaken him. The
crowd stood patiently in the rain until
the train pulled out.
Senator Cummins
To Vote for Colonel
rtES MOINES. TA, Sept. 3.—United
States Senator Cummins came out
flatly against President Taft in a state
ment he issued here today. The sen
ator declared he would vote for Colonel
Roosevelt for president, but at the
sarne time announced his opposition to
the naming of a third party state tick
et at the convention which Roosevelt
,s scheduled to address here tomorrow.
Birmingham to Give
Bull Moose Dinner
BIR MINGHAM, ALA., Sept. 3.—Colonel
eodore Roosevelt when he comes
r "Jgh Birmingham on September- 28
' b? accorded a big reception. Several
' r, nsand people will be at the train or
™ :> ’ a< e "’here he is to deliver his ad
j'ss Th e Colonel will arrive in Bir
n, ngham a few minutes after 12 o’clock
J 1 will be here until 3:30 o’clock in the
• ernoon, or about three hours, going
here to Atlanta. He will be given a
_ nner during his stay in Birmingham
/ in 'Bcations are that 200 or more will
a e application for dinner tickets.
SENATOR SMITH UNABLE
TO SPEAK AT TEXAS FAIR
penld 4 ’. o ’ p<\ke Smith has been com
thr ? 4 ie, *Dne an invitation to speak
'■ bor is xas sl ate/air at Dallas, on Oc
i's. P as Be will be engageci in the
, ‘ throughout September
" rpfi ] , oher - A hearty invitation was
ln * ’»y the fair management and
Prominent citizens of Dallas He
' <ls anxious to accept an invlta-
' ' at the Wilkes and Lincoln
Georgia. but was corn
decline tor the same reason.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS —Use For Results.
: Says, Fisticuff Ruined •
; Appetite; Asks $2,500:
• Joe Weinberg, proprietor of a •
• meat market at 9 West Mitchell •
• street, who is suing Robert E •
• Hogg for 32,500 as a result of a •
• personal encounter last Septem- •
• ber, told the superior court today •
• that a blow from Hogg has ruined •
• his appetite. He says other in- •
• juries were received in the fight. •
• but that they were not dangerous •
• •
Council to Urge It Be
Made Boss of Chief of
Construction Division
Also Will Recommend That the
Office Have Assistant to Look
After Details.
The city council met this afternoon
to act finally on the report of the spe
cial committee on the reorganization
of the chief of construction depart
ment.
While the chief of construction still
fa to be elected by the people, the
committee will recommend that he be
placed directly under the control of
council. Council then will assume
more responsibility for the work and
it can direct the chief of construction
at any time. The chief of construction
now is independent of council.
The chief is to have an assistant in
charge of the details of the office and
an engineer in charge of streets and
an engineer in charge of sewers. Also
it is recommended that the qualifica
tion that he must be an engineer of
ten years experience be eliminated.
Councilman Claude Mason an
nounced that he will urge council to
provide that instead of having a high
priced assistant chief of construction
in charge of the office that that offi
cial be designated as chief clerk and
that he be a business man rather than
an engineer.
Councilman Harvey Hatcher said he
would insist that some engineering
qualification be adopted for the men
in charge of the engineering work of
the office.
At the meeting a communication was
received from the board of education
urging that the four city high schools
be sold and that a university high
school be built on the stockade prop
erty.
GRADING BEGUN ON
NEW TROLLEY LINE
TO STONE MOUNTAIN
Work of grading the new trolley
line from Decatur to Stone Mountain
was begun today by a big force of men.
The grading was started near Clarks
ton, beyond Decatur, and it is expect
ed the road will be completed in about
a year.
The extension will run from the
South Decatur line, near the railroad
station, and not from the main or
North Decatur tracks. It will keep to
the south side of the Georgia railroad
to a point near Clarkston, then dip
through an underpass to the north side.
The extension will be about nine miles
long, making the trip from Atlanta to
Stone Mountain about sixteen miles,
probably will be on a basis of about
The fare has not been fixed, but It
2 cents a mile.
MOB IN CHATTANOOGA
SEARCHES IN VAIN FOR
SLAYERS OF OFFICER
CHATTANOOGA. TENN.. Sept. 3.
A mob of 600 men and boys, bent on
lynching two negroes accused of a
killing, held this city in its sway for
several hours today while they searched
the streets and prisons
The negroes, Newton Howard and
Ernest Selman, who are charged with
killing a policeman on Sunday, had
been spirited away, however, before the
mob was formed.
The men paraded from one end of
the city to the other and refused to
obey the order of the police to dis
perse. Angry citizens sent in a num
ber of riot calls to police headquar
ters, but the authorities were power
less to act.
ELECTION BLANKS DO
NOT SHOW NAME FOR
BENCH IN BLUE RIDGE
The state election blanks will go out
to the ordinaries of the state this year
with a blank line representing the can
didate for the Blue Ridge judgeship
The public printer is hurrying through
with the preparation of the blanks in
order that they may be sent out at the
very earliest moment, and in the cir
cumstances of the disputed Blue Ridge
judgeship, it will be necessary for voters
to write in the name of that candidate
on election day after the state committee
has ratified the nomination
The fight between Judge H. L. Patter
son and Judge Newt Morris for the Blue
Ridge nomination comes before the state
Democratic committee tomorrow, and it
is expected the hearing will run at least
two days, if not longer.
3 KILLED; 7 HURT IN WRECK.
MEMPHIS, TENN.. Sept. 3.—David
Plough, seven years old. of Memphis:
Mis. Mary Seligman. Wheatley. Aik.,
and an unidentified negro were killed
when a Missouri and North Arkansas
passenger train was wrecked at Shir
ley. Ark., early today Five passen
gers and two of the train crew are
repo -.jl, fatally injut'.d, Th, wreck
was caused by spreading rails. i
ATLANTA, GA.. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1912.
LIFE CONVICT
RISKS OEIIH
FOH
PJROLEO
Negro Slayer Fights Off Mad
man Who Is Endeavoring to
Kill Camp Officer.
BLACK HERO MODEL
PRISONER 22 YEARS
Colored Youth Who Saved
White Woman in Runaway
Also to Go Free.
Because he risked his life to protect
his guard against the insanely mur
derous assault of a madman. Ben
Jones, a negro life convict from Ran
dolph county, will be paroled by the
governor, and released from the state’s
custody.
Jones came to the penitentiary 22
years ago, convicted of murder on cir
cumstances that commended him suffi
ciently to the court's mercy to save
him from the gallows. -
He has been consistently an humble
and uncomplaining prisoner. He
served in the coal mines of Dade for
years, under the old convict lease sys
tem. He is known as a good work
man, and he never gave his keepers
any trouble. He is quiet and inoffen
sive in his manner and seemed to have
settled down unprotestingly to the
hard-working but humdrum existence
of a man without hope of liberty or
freedom in this world again.
Not long ago a negro convict named
Henry Bacon ran amuck in a Chat
ham county camp, wnere both he and
.Tones were located, and viciously at
tacked the guard. Captain George Gay.
Bacon had an iron crowbar and was
plainly crazed and bent upon killing
the white man employed to oversee the
convicts at their work.
Alone, Overpowers
Bloodthirsty Maniac.
Single-handed. Convict Jones at
tacked the madman, overpowered him
and saved the life of Gary.
Gary says he owes his life to the
prompt action of the negro and that
no man could have done a braver or
more courageous thing than Jones did.
All of this was placed before Govern
or Brown recently,, and with it was
filed a petition from the grand jury
of Chatham county, setting forth the
facts in the case.
The governor promptly agreed that
Jones had won the undisputed right to
executive clemency. So Jones win be
paroled and will soon be free.
Jones is overjoyed, of course. But
he seems to feel that he only per
formed a duty. He says he would do
it all over again, and without any
thought of eventual reward.
The governor thinks there may be
wmrse men in the world, and at large,
than is Ben Jones, convicted of murder
22 years ago.
The governor also determined today
to pardon Willie Jones, a negro of
seventeen, sent up a few months ago
from Baker for simple larceny.
This young negro, too. has a record
for gallantry, and upon it the governor
based much of his determination to
clemency. He bravely stopped a run
away horse as it dashed through his
camp in Baker county recently, and
thereby prevented serious injury to,
and maybe saved the life of. a white
woman living in that vicinity.
“CONTROVERSY”OR
“MISUNDERSTANDING"
PENALTY THE SAME
If there is any particular difference
between a controversy and a misunder
standing. it is not known ’to court.
When Recorder Pro Tern Preston to
day was called on to determine this
difference, he ruled that one Is just as
bad as the other in the eyes of the law.
It came about w hen two tailors, Char
lie Brisler and J. H. Rauch, were ar
raigned because of a little mlxup late
yesterday afternoon at Pryor and Ala
bama streets.
Brisler characterized it as a "mere
misunderstanding.” Rauch said it was
nothing more than a ‘‘little controver
sy."
Judge Preston carefully weighed the
t,wo terms, and then fined the tailors
$7.75 each.
$25,000 BANK AT TRION
GIVEN STATE CHARTER
The secretary of state today signed the
charter *.f the Bank of Trion. This new
bank has been capitalized al $35,000. and
will commence buaine S s in Trion, Chat
tooga county, immediately
Thousands See Contests for the 1912 Swimming Titles
GIRLS’ WATER RACE THRILLS
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Walthour Wins Championship
in Piedmont Meet—Women’s
Prize to Miss Murphy.
Miss Mabel Murphy is today ac-I
claimed as the champion gill swimmer
!of Piedmont park, and none is quicki :
to acknowledge her skill than Mis.--
| Fiances Smith, who lost the coveted
honor by a tew inches
So close was the race in which these
two expert swimmers competed yes
terday that the judges had to hold a
conference to decide who had reached
the mark first. There were nearly a
dozen pretty swimmers in the con
tests. all bunched closely behind the
leaders. Miss Orrie Crenshaw coming
in third Mits Murphy won a handsome
piece of cut glass, making the twenty
five yards in thirty seconds.
Tat Walthour. brother of the famous
bicycle rider, holds the silver loving
cup and the man's championship of the
lake. Here are the summaries;
Events and Winners.
25-Yard Dash for Men —Time, 16
seconds; Trammell. Peeples. Bedell.
Prize, shirt, offered by Essig Bros.
50-Yard Dash for Men—Timo, 36
seconds. First heat. Walthour, Mon
salvatge. Bedell; second heat Logan.
Sams, Lennick; final, Walthour, Logan
Bedell. First prize, bathing suit, of
fered by Yancey Hardware Companv;
second prize, tie, from Eiseman Bros, i
100-Yard Dash for Men—Time, 1!
minute 25 seconds. Logan. Walthour.!
Cowles (Crane winning, but disquali
fied as professional). Prize, bathing
suit, offered by J. M. High Company
Half Mile Race for Men—Time, 16
minutes 34 seconds. Walthour. lon
nick. Logan (Crane was disqualified
for third place). Prize, gold signet
ring, offered by Charles Chosewood, in
charge of the boat concessions at the
lake.
25-Yard Dash for Boys—Time, 17.4
seconds. Louis Sams, Gilbert Frazier.
Harvey Anderson Prize, bathing suit,
offered by College Co-Op Company.
100-Yard Dash for Boys—Time. 1
minute 32 seconds. Louis Sams, (fil
bert Frazier, Harvey Anderson. P. iz< .
bathing suit, offered by Cloud-Stanford
Company.
Boat tilting contest, iwo best falls
out of three. Monsalvatge and Ryan,
Sams brothers.
25-Yard Dash for Girls -Tim*. 30
seconds. Miss Mabel Murphy. Miss
Frances Smith, Miss Orrie Crenshaw.
Prize, piece of cut glass, offered Uy-
King Hardware Company.
Winners of points in silver cup con
test:
Walthour. 40 points: Logan, 30
points; Lennick. 15 points.
MISSION WORKERS
PLEA SAVES YOUTH
FROM PRISON TERM
Mrs Mary Wolfort, a philanthropic
and church worker in the Whittier
mills settlement at Chattahooihee, to
day appeared in police court and made
an eloquent plea in behalf of a six- .
teen-year-old youth. K. McKinney, a 1
mill operative, who yesterday after
noon attacked Turnkey Brannan when
taken to the police station intoxicated.
Mrs. Wolfort’s pleadings touched the
heart of Recorder Pro Tern Preston
and saved the youth from punishment.
Instead of fining or sending young Mc-
Kinney to the stockade. Judge Preston
gave him another Thance, placing him
on probation under Probation Officer
Coogler. The court lectured the boy
and | romised him 90 days if he ap
pealed tn court,again.
The youth said he drank some beer
and then mixed in a drink of blind ti
ger whisky, and that this sent him on
the war path. H< fought the turnkey
for several minutes before he could be
placed in a cell.
Miss l‘’fatiecs Smith, -yvhu finished nd in the won
race. Ihe winners time was 30 seconds. Miss Smith was
behind Miss Murphy, the victor.
GOVERNMENT CROP
ESTIMATE 74 <3 PCT.
W ASIII Sept. 3.—A report issued today by ihe crop
reporting board of the department of agriculture shows the con
dition of the cotton crop on August 25 as 74. S per cent of nor
mal. compared with 76.5 July 25 1912. 73.2 August 25. 1911.
and 73.6 the ten year average for August 25.
l l' condition in various eotion-growing slaye:- toll *.• w -
' Au s ’ July 1 Aug. | Aug. : Aug. | Aug. Aug., Aug. I Aug. A (ig“
STA'I E— I 25 | 25 25- I 25 I 25 I 25 I 25 ">5 25 25
I 1'912 | 1912 j 1911 | 1910 _1909 I 1908 | 1907 1906 I 1905 ' 1904
Georgia . . .! 70 i 68 I 81 I 71 1 73 . 77 i 81 i 72 77 • S 6
N Carolina. .' 75 80 I 76 ’ 76 1 73 I 80 78 71 . “6 88
S. Carolina. ,| 73 75 | 76 73 I 74 ' 76 f 83 71 75 1 87
'‘'■P'?'' 1 ' " •. 80 8 6 «« 82 ' 73 I 87 71 71 76 ' 88
Honda . . 73 176j85i74 !75! 80 so i7O 77 I SB
Alabama. 75 74 ! 80 | 72 I 66 I 77 ;;; 7fi 70
Mississippi ,| 70 ■ 68 70 I 71 I 61 I 79 72 82 69 87
Louisiana. .. 74 I 76 60 60 I 48 I 63 1,9 7C, ,;■• 87
'•’pxa>. 76 1 84 1 6S | 69 j 59 | 75 67 78 70
Arkansas. 77 74 78 I 78 60 83 65 . 84 72 88
Tennessee.. ,| 76 1 71 1 88 | 78 | 75 I 88 78 88 81 " 88
Missouri. . . 78 75 88 ’ 78 ’ 80 'to 7f, *|.| sti 87
Oklahoma... 84 80 62 | 85 56 7o Z x- s«
<’alifoi nia.. . 75 99 100 95
1, • <4.8 i 6.5 73.2 72.1* 63.7 76.1 72.71 77.3! 7“ ) 84 1
len yr. a . er.! 73.6 . . . . . . |
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■ REPLIES
TO MOOffIRD
Mayor Says Candidate’s State
ment Gives Misleading In
formation on Finances.
Ileplying to James ,G. Woodward's an
nouncement statement as a candidate for
mayor. Mayor Courtland S. Winn gave an
interview today in which he said Mr.
Woodward's statement gave some mis
leading information about the city's finan
cial condition.
Mr. Woodward said that the present
administration had pledged $600,000 of the
city's future revenue, while the charter
specifically provides that one administra
tion can not spend any of the revenue of
any future year.
Mayor Winn said that Mr Woodward
included in his statement $95,000 of street,
school and sewer serial bonds, which ma
ture January 1, $25,000 of Auditorium
bonds and the entire $375,000 which the
new crematory and electric power plant
is to cost.
Mayor Winn said that the mayor and
council had simply given the city's moral
obligation for the following amounts,
which is simply a recommendation to
next year’s council that the appropria
tions be made;
A $75,000 payment on a $276,000 crema
tory. $11,250 as a payment on the Eng
lish-Commercial Gills' High school lot; a
$4,000 payment on a new site for a stock
ade. SB,IOO for the regrading of Forsyth
.street, and $7,500 as a payment to Carl
Witt for ilitmages to his property caused
by the widening of Peachtree street. The
total is $105,850.
‘fhe council contemplates giving its
moral obligation for $30,000 for the Ivy
street improvement and for several other
improvements, but final action has not
yet been taken, said the mayor.
THIRD TRIAL OF DR. HYDE
TO GO OVER TILL JANUARY
KANSAS CITY. MO., Sept. 3. When
Hie trial of B Clarke Hyde, charged
with the murder of Colonel Thomas H.
Swope, comes up late today It will be
postponed. Attorneys for the prose
cution and defense reached .an agree
ment and the ruse will be continued
probably until the January term of
court.
FATHER IGCUSEB
DF TIKING GUILD
Mrs. Rudolph Oeiter Thinks
Husband Has Child Award
ed Her by Court.
Baby - >y<s are light blown, his
! right eye being sl’ghtly defective
and closes same frequently; hair
very light, and worn Buster Brown
fashion
Arrest either man or baby and
notify bv wire Chief of Police .1.
1, Beavers. Atlanta, Ga.
That's the striking part of a notice
sent out today by the police of Atlan
ta in the search for a throe-year-old
boy, Theodore Oetter, son of Mrs. odes,
sic Getter, who says his father. Ru
dolph Oetter. has kidnaped the child.
Tile youngster whs awarded to the
mother after a long court fight, hut
disappeared last night. Today a war
rant was sworn out for the "man or
the baby In Justice Johnson's court
and the case also will be taken to the
superior court, contempt being charged.
The police issued a description of the
man and child.
Mrs. Oette: lives with h?r mother.
Mrs. Emily Smith, 9 Nesbit street, and
there has been taking care of the
1 youngster who was awarded to her
after a long fight in court Oetter, tne
. father, has been coming to see the
. youngster off and on
He visited the house last night, ac
cording to Mrs. Smith, and took the
boy out to a corner drug store’for some
ice cream. At the same time lie had
' some summer beverages sent to the
house for Mrs. Smith and his wife. The
1 two women awaited his return for an
hour and then Mrs. (letter began a
, hysterical si arch of the streets for the
' child.
She found no clew and the police have
! not been abb to locate Ihe man. There
■ was some talk of an automobile having
figured in the so-called kidnaping.
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2 CENTS EVERYWHERE
POOH SUFFER
KSMERCURY
(LIMBS FOB
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Infant Death Rate Jumps as
'Temperature Equals High
Ma r k for Period.
297.500 SODA WATER
DRINKS SOLD IN DAY
! Sleeping Ortizons '!?s Bcco'Z
Common—Little Hope for
Early Relief Entertained.
Atlanta is suffering tod: ' f; >m no ■
| than a week of torrid op- rat ore <f
days when work means tw.ing »n s
unwilling mind and body, when : co ■
was unbearable and i shower bath th
J most delicious luxury imaginable it
| has been a w eek of to: ture forth"
sick, of anguish for teething bebies and
all little folk condemned to indoors;
a week of sleepless nights with the dis.
comfort broken only with the approach
of dawn. It will long tn- remembered
as the “great hot spell of 1912."
Yet with all the suffering, the official
weather records with the cold, heart
lessness of statistics show" that past hot
weather records have not been reached
Even today , which many are ready to
monounce "the hottest I ever knew."
lacked a degree of equaling yesterday's
temperature. The official thermometer
climbed to 92 at noon, dropped back to
91 when a cloud came between earth
and sun at 1:30 o'clock, and crept up
to 92 again at 2 o'clock. And there is
no relief in sight.
The figures for the first two days of
September are exactly up to the high
est temperature on record for the cor
responding period, the hot weather
mark being set in 1907. the year hard
boiled eggs were reported ready-laid.
They were September !• 92 degrees;
S, pteinber 93 degrees: the figures
being recorded Sunday and yesterday,
though rot given out, both days be
ing Ivridays.
I What Convinced
| Hun It Was Hot.
| But still the thermometer failed to
its ow ii high mercury ma: k. >
1 hard is it might. l-'or on Sept mb: r
j 18. in 1896. two weeks later limn :...-.
I the otiieial figures w'ere 97 degrees in
tile greatly overcrowded shade. It A
- thought that day was billed ier
a return engagemeni th»re wouldn't 1.-
J enough outgoing tr.iar- to carry .he
, crow d.
| Mr. Von Herrmann, who looks if.er
the Georgia weather for tile gov. la
ment. Inn washes ids hands of any re
sponsibility be.vond reporting ami i -
cording the \ i;,.ires of tlu clot us.
sun and winds admitted today tiiai it
was luit. He didn't depend on his in
struments. either. it was an houi s
work idiot mg a lawn mower over s
I front yard yesterday which gave hint
i a w ell defined opinion on Hie subject.
“There’s no rain in sight, either," re
marked Mr Von Herrmann, -adly. peer
ing out ot his breeze-swept windows
on the to|> floor of the Empire building.
“But I don't think this lieated spell will
. last tiiiu.h longer. I think it will nmd-
I ••trite in the next few day s."
297.500 Drinks Sold
Here In One Day.
Soda fountain proprietors checking
their sates today discovered that At
lantans spent sls,OOfi for soda last
Saturday and that day broke all rec
ords for soft drink sales.
That meant 297,5<H1 separate drinks,
according to the figures soda water men
have fixed by long experience. They
j estimate that 85 per cent of sales are
from five-cent drinks and 15 per cent
from ten and tifteen-cenl beverages.
There are 350 soda stands in At
lanta. and the managers of the sev
eral soda concerns which operate va
rious stands agree on an estimate of
S4O average sales from each stand, big
and little. Os course, some of the up
town stands run far above this, up to
sl<io. while little suburban and corner
grocery founts will be far below. But
they fix S4O as Saturday's average.
One <oneern which operates five
stands found its business had jumped
nearly a third on Saturday. Suu/lay
was a small day. for there were few
people on th*? streets ami most stands
were closed. Labor day was consid
erably below Saturday in its sales.
The |.r-t t> n day s has done more to ed
ucate Atlanti toward outdoor sleeping
than ill the magazine articles in the
past five years.
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