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VOLUME XXV.
Thomson, McDuffie county, Georgia, Friday, june r>, 192-1.
MERCHANTS TO CLOSE STORES
THURSDAY P. M. DURING SUMMER
It has become customary in the
larger towns and cities to close the
stores one afternoon a week during
the summer months. The merchants
of Thomson, realizing that their em
ployes need recreation from the long,
not summer days, propose to adopt
this plan, closing Thursday afternoon
each week during the months of June,
July and August at 1 o’clock P. M.
The following petition was circu
lated and the names of those partici
pating affixed:
“We, the undersigned merchants,
agree to close our places of business
each Thursday afternoon during the
months of June, July and August, at
1 o’clock P. M., beginning Thursday,
June 12th. On Thursday, July 3rd,
it is proposed to remain open on ac
count of the general observance of
the day following, July 4th.”
Arnold Chevrolet Co.
H. E. Clary.
First National Bank.
Bank of Thomson.
Thomson City Bank.
A. P. Hancock.
H. P. Schneider.
C. A. Farmer.
T. R. Reese Barber Shop.
J. D. Adkins.
Joe Goolsby.
.T. C. Wall. *
R. A. Kunnes.
Hndaway’s Department Store.
Hobbs & Lokey.
Myer Steine.
Thrasher & Wilkerson.
Boyd Furniture Co.
Mrs. Estelle Martin.
Thomson Hardware Co.
J. W. Fletcher.
J. E. Wiley.
E. E. Roberts.
Mrs. Gordon E. Wall.
Gus Agoos.
Racket Store.
H. L. Boatwright.
B. A. Scott.
P. P. Maddox.
J. A. Jones.
Hunt & Williams.
Thomson Mercantile Co.
Roy J. Johnson.
E. H. Landers.
R. S, Pounds.
J. M. Hogan.
G. H. Hogan.
Washington, D. C., June 5.
CONGRESS CLEARING ITS
Letter From Hon. Carl
Vinson.
Washington, D. C., June 5.
The Editor of the McDuffie Progress,
Thomson, Ga.
My Dear Sir:
Will you please do me the kind
ness to publish this letter in your
paper, advising the ex-service men
that it is not necessary to write to
the War Department, Navy Depart- (
ment or Veterans’ Bureau for blank
forms of application for adjusted !
compensation. 1
Detailed information will be furn
ished with the blanks, which will be
ready for distribution in about 30
days. Accompanying each will be a
circular giving the veterans full in
formation as to how to fill out the
application blank. The blanks will
be distributed by American Legion
posts, Red Cross chapters and the
postoffices.
The Secretaries of War and Navy
have advised me that they will furn
ish me with an ample supply of the
blanks so that I can distribute them
among any veterans who fail to ob
tain them from the soui’ces above
noted.
As soon as the blanks have been
distributed, I shall come to Thomson
to advise with the veterans in regard
to their bonus and to .render what
assistance I possibly can in helping
them get their applications in proper
shape. I shall let you know later
at what date it will be convenient for
me to be in Thomson for this pur
pose.
I trust my familiarity with the
new law and experience with handl
ing claims before the Department
will be of great assistance to the vet
erans in getting their adjusted com
pensation promptly attended to.
Sincerely yours,
CARL VINSON.
Warrenton Ball Team
Here Friday.
The Warrenton base ball team will
come today (Friday) for another J
game with the Thomson team.
The game Wednesday was much I
enjoyed, as it was one of the most
hotly contested games of the season,
and the first that Thomson has had
with Warrenton.
Warrenton has a good team, as is
testified by the close score of 4 to 3
in Wednesday’s game. Warrenton
had the home boys going in the first
inning, when she piled up her only
tallies, making three runs with the
bases full at the close of the inning.
From then on to the close of the game
Thomson held them down, but they
played a valiant game to the last.
Another thing about the Warrenton
team this year, they are all good
sports, play a good, clean game, with
out the least bit of wrangling. It is
hoped a good crowd will turn out to
see the game today. Both the home
boys and the visitors deserve a good
audience.
South Must Supply
Wood Pulp.
Atlanta, Ga., June 5.—Will the
South be the center of the paper in
dustry in the future?
A new industrial opportunity has
been opened to the South as a result
of the Canadian embargo on the ex-
poration of wood and pulp wood, it
was pointed out here today by At
lanta publishers. The Canadian em
bargo places the manufacturers of
paper in this country face to face
with a serious situation, it was shown.
Without the Canadian pulp supply,
paper manufacturers must find new
sources of supply or a substitute for
pulp wood in paper.
The latter is not easy to do, it was
asserted. Experiments made with
the fiber of cotton stalks and with
other wood fibre have not been satis
factory. Thus far the only material
paper makers can depend upon is
pulp from pine trees, a material that
is becoming exhausted in the North
and North-east and which still
abounds in the South. The South,
it is believed by paper manufacturers,
reports received here state, offers the
only solution to their difficulty.
One difficulty, as pointed out here,
that has tended to prevent the use of
Southern pine in paper making has
been the inability to overcome the
rosin handicap. Until a few years
ago it was thought that the rosin
content of southern pine rendered it
unfit for paper making by any known
process, but the research chemist has
overcome this difficulty.
The south’s outpuf of strong brown
kraft paper in the mills now in oper
ation is said to be around 600 tons
daily. And although so far southern
pines have not been generally used in
the manufacture of news print and
other white paper it is belived here,
in the light of recent developments,
this, also, has been conquered by the
chemist.
The Southern states of Georgia,
Alabama, Virginia, North and South
Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, Arkan
sas, Louisana and Eastern Texas have
pine forests which it is believed are
ample to supply the needs of paper
industry for a number of years, per
haps indefinitely if yield manage
ment and conservation is coordinated.
J. D. Curtis Elected Vice
President.
Mr. J. D. Curtis, of Thomson, was
honored by the Georgia Funeral
Directors Association at their meet
ing in Savannah this week by elect
ing him Second Vice President of the
Association. Mr. Curtis is well
known throughout the State in his
association with the funeral directors
and embalmers at their meetings,
which attests his knowledge and au
thority on matters pertaining o his
profession.
Macon was selected as the meeting
place of the association in June next
year.
MR. "pEARCE improves.
Mr. Robert Pearce, who has been
quite’ ill this week has regained his
g^j*gy}g£h to a most satisfactoiy ex
tent and seems to be getting back to
his usual health. He is anticipating
with pleasure a visit from his daugh
ter, Mrs. T. A. Scott, of Atlanta, who
is expected Saturday to come and
spend several days. On account of
Mr. Pearce’s illness the V oman s
Club meeting to have been held with
Mrs. Farmer was postponed.
Twenty-Three Fish
Traps Removed.
Attention of The Progress has been
called to the fact that twenty-three
fish traps have been removed from
the streams of McDuffie county by
Mr. C. P. Watson, game warden, and
his deputies. Most of these were
taken from Briar Creek.
Early in the season Mr. Watson
notified the public that he intended
clearing the streams of fish traps,
according to government instructions.
From the number taken out it
would seem that the streams should
be about clear of traps, and doubtless
fishermen and all concerned are elated
at the work done by Mr. Watson and
his deputies. Much favorable com
ment has been heard regarding these
efforts to protect fish in the streams
of the county.
BUYS MATHEWS DRUG CO.
Mr. A. J. Melton, of Crawfordville,
has purchased the Matnews Drug
Co., which will in future be known as
the Melton Drug Co. Mr. Emmett
Mathews retires from the business
and is contemplating locating in
Florida.
Mr. Melton is a druggist of long
experience and comes to Thomson
well recommended. Mrs. Melton will
join him as soon as they find a suit
able place, and they will be heartily
welcomed as new citizens of Thom-
ACCEPTS POSITION.
Mr. Eugene Dunn has accepted a
position with the Wear Ever Allumi-
num Company and will leave Mon
day for Crawfordville with Mr. W.
L. Harwell where they will work to
gether on his initial trip.
Mr. Harwell, who is of a prominent
Dc-Kslh county family, has been in
Thomson a month and has been very
successful .in his business. He has
made friends by his affable manner
and,business dealings.
DECKS: Japan pi’otests against
the exclusion of its nationals by the
United States. A tax bill has bean
passed, and in sending it to the Presi-
dent it was accompanied by an im
plied threat that if vetoed, it would
be re-passed over the veto. Out in
Chicago a Federal Grand Jury has
\ been investigating the administration
■ of the VeteranJs Bureau, which was
| previously painted very black in the
j Congressional investigation. Import-
! ant railroad legislation is not to
i be hoped for in this session of Con-
1 gross. Farm bills have moved up
wards in the Congressional calendar,
I and gi r.dually the contingencies
[threatening to delay adjournment of
Congress have been removed.
THE CONGRESSIONAL AGONY:
The present Congress exceeds all
predecessors in its intrigues to dis
regard party lines; to snap its fingers
at the White House and defy threat
ened vetoes. Senator Fess of Ohio,
has said that “today, the Senate as
a body has no control over its mem
bers, but any member can entirely
use it to his own purpose.” He be
lieves that the American people will
not tolerate a continuance of the
“spree” of investigations, which he
heartily dislikes. Optimistic Nicholas
Longworth, also from Ohio, and- Re
publican leader of the lower branch
of Congress says: “The House is to
day the dominant body in Congress.
We not only legislate but we know
how to legislate.” Unfortunately
few people will agree with Mr. Long-
worth. The House is unwieldly in
size, and the reports of its principal
committees is only preparation work
for the Senate which does most of
the actual legislating for the country.
The country has quite justly measur
ed he present session of Congress
as a sort of “agony”—due to the
peculiar kind of results that have
been obtained.
AMERICAN GOODS ABROAD: Re
el uests to the United States De
partment of Commerce from 2[)
foreign countries indicate that “many
merchants seek to buy goods outright
and others ask that American firms
be advised of their willingness to sell
their goods on an agency basis.”
Bulgaria wants industrial machinery;
Jugoslavia inquires for household
scales. Egypt wants flour and semo
lina. Bakery supplies are wanted by
the Netherlands. Austria will take
artificial silk and wool yarns; Jama
ica, carpets and furniture; France,
hams, lard and sugar.
LAND, VALUES AND POPULA
TION: The Agricultural Depart
ment estimates a population of 150,-
000.000 in the United States in twen-
ty-five vears. and that it can be fed
by adding 38,000,000 acres more of
producing farm lands. It is easy, as
there are 600,000.000 acres of poten
tial cron land, 200,000 acres of which
should be reserved for forests, etc.
The Department in another bulletin
says that the available land resources
in the United States are capable of
sustaining a population of 300,000,-
000. In still another bulletin the,
Department considers the problems
of the demand for land and farm
products and arrives by a course of
reasoning that “there is consequently
nothing over-optimistic in predicting
an increased demand for farm land,
and consequently for American farm
products within a few years.”
HOW NOT TO DECEIVE: The Fed
eral Trade Commission is constant
ly adding new rules to the code of
business morals. A Philadelphia
manufacturer of toilet preparations
has been summoned to Washington
to answer the charge of misbranding
his goods as “lemon” cleansing
creams, etc., when — despite the
cheapness of the fruit— they contain
no lemon, or juice. A St. Louis con
cern has been called to the carpet on
a complaint that it enters into agree
ments with distributors to maintain
certain resale prices, and to report
to the manufacturer any failure of
other dealers to keep the price agree
ment. In another city a firm of
blanket dealers is accused of sailing
under false colors by using the name
of a former company now out of the
blanket game. In Omaha, a firm
sells its goods to its “established
dealers.” New customers are classed
under a different head, and charged
! greater prices, •which in some cases
are divided pro rata among the ‘‘es
tablished” favorites. A New York
concern advertises to sell “English
Broadcloth” shirts, when as a matter
of fact the goods from which the
shirts are manufactured is made in
the United States.
I A FOLLETTE’S LAST CHANCE:
Senator La Follette’s name has
been presented at the last “several”
Republican national conventions. The
Senator is getting old, and 1024 is
i the last chance at the Presidency,
j hence, a willingness to “go it inde-
| pendent.”
TO BUY SILVER: The Pittman
| bill to purchase fourteen million
t dollars worth of silver to replace
silver dollars withdrawn from the
I treasury vaults during the war and
! sold as bullion to the British govern
ment for use in her Colonies has
passed the Senate. This is intended
to complete the purchase of stores
of domestic silver covered in the Pitt
man Act. Favorable 'action by the
House is confidently predicted.
BOYCOTT OF THE FEDERAL
COCRTS: A bill before Congress
last year sought to remove the juris
diction of Federal Courts in public
utility cases and throw these cases
into the State Courts. A new pro
posal is to clear certain public utility
cases through the Interstate Com
merce Commission. Congress never
becomes converted to such proposals.
WORLD TRADE IMPORTS: Dis
tinct tendencies toward readjust-
i ment in those phases of our foreign
trade that are not normal npw and a
gradual but definite improvement in
other directions are declared to have
characterized American 1923 over
seas trade, in a comprehensive re
view just issued by the Department
of Commerce. “A decline from the
adnormally high levels reached by
our exports of foodstuffs on account
of reduced European [’producing
capacity was to have been expected
along with Europe’s recovery,” the
Department finds, “and Europe’s de
mands for industrial raw materials,
which have been greatly reduced,
should show an increase. Both of
those tendencies are seen in our 1923
export trade. The continued though
moderate growth in our exports of
manufactured goods is encouraging,
and we should be able to maintain
and expand it, even in the face of in
creasing European competition, if we
but make the most of our advantages
we have enjoyed on account of dis
ruption in Europe during ;and follow
ing the war.”
THE NORRIS SHOALS BILL: Sen
ator Norris’ Muscle Shoals hill as
amended and accepted by the Senate
Committee provides for the separa
tion of fertilizer and power produc
tion. The Department of Agricul
ture would be placed in charge of the
fertilizer manufacture, hut private
operation would be allowed. The hill
keeps all operation under the control
of the Government, hut it would per
mit private concerns to secure the
rights to operate. The Ford ofl'er is
as dead as a smelt.
HONEST WEIGHTS: The Bureau
of Standards is making a fight
against dishonest scales and weights.
Secretary Hoover has declared his
energetic support of the movement
to stop this cheating.
PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE:
The arrangement agreed to be
tween the Philippine Mission and the
War Department, and which seerns
likely to be approved by Congress—
though that approval may not come
before next Winter, gives the Philip
pines the right to select their own
Governor General and run their own
elective and political affairs under a
kind of American protectorate that
will terminate in twenty years.
SUMMER TRAINING CAMPS: The
War Department arranged for
30,000 student soldiers for the Citi
zens’ Training Military Camps, to be
held during July and August. The
applicants for admission have already
exceeded that number by several
thousand.
NEW COTTON FIELDS: Official
Federal reports show that Lower
California and Virginia are making
very large increases in the amount
of their cotton production. On the
other hand certain sections of the
South are giving up some of the cot
ton production in favor of diversified
farming.
FRUIT PRODUCTION: Federal re
ports show that fruit production
and the exports of fruits to foreign
countries is likely to reach $100,000,-
000 this year. The shipments go to
one hundred countries and colonies
the world over. The census figures
show that the farm value of the fruit
crop in the United States is about
$700,000,000 per annum. Canned
and dried foods have also increased
our exports.
BIG SCANDALS FOR LOCAL CON
SUMPTION: Washington has
heard from every part of the nation
that the people are tired of the scan
dals that have come out of the Sena
torial investigations. Too bad, but
it is all to be in the campaign speak
ers’ text books, so that in a few weeks
the story will be delivered first-hano
from the “stump” right at home.
RUBBER: All of the large tire
manufacturers are rushing at
break-neck speed to make manufac
tured rubber products, This lS due
, to the over-production of tires and
j keen competition that has demoral-
i ized rubber manufacturing enter
prises.
JAPAN’S PROTEST: Japan’s pro
test against exclusion sounds a
great deal like a reprimand to Uncle
Sam because of his abrupt, uncouth
American manners. The indications
are that the two Nations will continue
to be friends.
NEWSPAPER BUNK: Another
newspaper item that has gone the
country ’round about the President
strolling “unrecognized” through the
streets of Washington. It’s hunk.
Washington never has failed to stare,
politely, at all its Presidents when
they join the pedestrians.
Think to Themselves
There is no objection to other poo
lie’s thinking what tliev like—Jus* so
;hev refrain from tiiin'-im/ out tour)
NUMBER 24.
Movement On To Select
Capable Men?
CREAM STATION
Atlanta, Ga., June 5.—Word comes
to Atlanta that there is a serious
movement over the State to send the
strongest business and professional
men to the next Legislature.
The opinion seems to be general
that Georgia’s plight is due to lack
of a constructive program put for
ward by men in whom the public have
confidence. A well known Georgian,
talking on the subject today said:
“Jehovah promised Abraham that
He would save Sodom and Gomorrah
if ten good men could be found with
in them. Ten good men might be
able to save Georgia but they would
have a hard job doing it. Forty or
fifty could do it with ease.
“Surely the State has not fallen
to such depths of impotence that we
cannot find fifty big, capable, un
selfish men who will consent to make
the personal sacrifice to go to the
next Legislature and frame the con
structive legislation necessary to lift
Georgia out of the financial mire into
which she has sunk.
“One or two big ones cannot ac
complish the task by themselves, but
if we get twenty-five to fifty of our
ablest Georgians in the next General
Assembly, the people will listen to
them. Let’s elect one more Assembly
which will measui’e up to the best of
the old days. We need men who have
no political ambition but whose sole
desire is to help Georgia. Men who
are playing politics all the time, who
are scheming to be governor or sena
tor or congressman or a judge, will
never solve the greatest problem in
a big broad way. If the weekly and
daily newspapers will hammer on this
subject for a few weeks, they will
awaken general interest and the peo
ple will feel an inspiration that they
have not had in a generation.”
National Park in North
Georgia.
Atlanta, Ga., June 5.—Photograph
ing North Georgia will be the next
step to be taken following the organ
ization of the Southern Appalachian
National Association which is behind
the movement to establish a national
park in the South, it was announced
here today by Louis B. Magid, of
Tallulah Park, Ga., president of the
association.
These photographs will be submit
ted to the Southern Appalachain
National Park Committee that they
may see by pictures what they may
not be able to see when they make
their inspection in June—and that is
the beautiful and unequaled scenery
of North Georgia.
Subscriptions are now being taken
for the North Georgia Photographic
Fund, remittances being made to Jas.
A. Hollaman, care of the Atlanta
Constitution, in this city. Mr. Holla-
man, who is associate editor of the
Atlanta Constitution, is vice president
of the Southern Appalachain Nation
al Park Association. President
Magid v/as the first contributor,
sending his check for $50.
“If you want the National Park to
be located in north Georgia write
your check for the photographic fund
and send it to Mr. Holloman, no mat
ter what the amount is,” said Mr.
Magid in a statement made public
today. “You are the best judge of
what you are willing to contribute
to this fund.”
The committee named by Secretary
Hubert L. Work, of the Department
of the Interior, to inspect sites for
the park, is composed of Hon. II. W.
Temple, congressman from Pennsyl
vania, chairman; Colonel Glen S.
Smith, of the U. S. Geological Sur
vey; W. A. Welch, engineer and 1
manager of the Palisades Interstate
Parks, New York; Harlan P. Kelsey,
of the Appalachain Mountain Club,
and William C. Gregg, of the Nation
al Arts Club, of New York.
Mr. Gregg, one of the members,
came south in advance of the com
mittee and in company with Louis B.
Magid, president of the southern as
sociation, inspected the scenery in
Habersham and Rabun counties,
Georgia. Mr. Gregg, it was stated,
was himself favorably impressed with
the existing natural reasons offering
north Georgia as a favorable location
for the park, which may embrace
besides north Georgia, parts of west
ern North Carolina and northwest
ern South Carolina.
HARD WIND SUNDAY AFTER
NOON. .
About 5 o’clock Sunday afternoon
a storm swept across the northern
outskirts of Thomson, doing consider
able damage to property and growing
crops. One barn was blown down
and other outhouses were twisted
and roofs damaged. Young cotton
and corn was pretty badly whipped
about and damaged. So far as learn
ed no one was injured.
TAX ASSESSORS MEET.
The County Board of Tax Asses
sors have finished going over the tax
returns for 1924, having been in ses
sion for the past several days. The
board is composed of Messrs. G. F.
Rogers, of Dearing; J. S. Megahee,
of Thomson; L. M. Mathews, of
Sweetwater.
The board finds that the property
valuation of the county will about
approximate that of last year, there
being few changes.
CONGREGATIONAL HOLINESS
CHURCH.
Rev. J. O. Burnett will preach at
the Congregational Holiness church
next Sunday night. The public is
cordially invited.
Efforts are being made to get •
sour cream station located here. A
w.n will come to Thomson on st&ttfd
days about twice a week and tefty
weigh and pay for the farmers' ©Ottlt
cream on the spot. This will enabl#
the farmer to sell his surplus butt©?
a3 sour cream and have a constant
market for his milk at all tint©©/
This will enable them to sell quantt-
ties from a pint to 100 gallons ptit
week. It is not a get rich quick pVO*
position, however, and you can’t e*»
pect the same price the year round 1 /
The sour cream market, like th©
poultry and cotton markets, fiucttl*
ate. You can make the cow pay th©
expenses, keep your skimmed milk At
home, have the much needed man'
ure for your crops and make a littl©
clear money.
All we have got to do is send Irt
to the county agent your name and
number of milking cows so we call
know whether it will pay the concert!
, to send a man. Let me know you?
i name at once if you want a constant
| cash market for your butter as SOU?
• milk. No separator is necessary t©
begin with and no cream cans. Ill
fact, there is no expense except com
ing to town and you do that every
week anyhow.
We feel that this would be bettor
for the farmers than a cheese fac
tory. ' G. C. DANIEL,
County Agent/
To Wage War On Boll
Weevil.
Atlanta, Ga., June 5.—Prepare t©
fight the boll weevil with all the
means and all the speed one may
command.
This, in effect, is the advice of the
insect investigators of the federal
department of agriculture, made pub
lic here today by agricultural agent©
of the railroads, who with other
agencies, are helping to rally the
forces that will do battle with the
billion-dollar hug.
The opinion is expressed by agent©
of the department of agriculture that
many cotton farmers are placing to©
much confidence in the cold weather
of last January and are expecting A
lighter invasion of boll weevils thait
they will actually experience thi©
year.
The farmers are all wrong, it ap
pears, for the latest information
available shows that while the emer
gence from hibernation will be gen
erally light, there will still be suffi
cient weevils to do very serious dam
age in almost all sections.
Each fall, according to entomolog
ists of the federal , department of
agriculture, approximately thirty
thousand boll weevils are placed in
hibernation cages at Tallulah, Louis
iana. Percentage of weevils emerg
ing this year, in spite of cold weather,
the official report states, is greater
than was the case in either 1918 or
ID 10 and approaches closely that of
1917 and 1920. As nearly as can b©
predicted, the survival will probably
be higher than in 1917, 1918 or 1919,
and will fairly closely approach that
of 1920.
“The farmer who does not prepat©
to fight the weevil now is merely
gambling on the weather during July
and August,” says an official state
ment.
GRADUATES OF THOMSON HIGH
SCHOOL ARE DISSATISFIED
WITH DIPLOMAS.
Editor of The Progress:
A goodly number of the member©,
of the graduating class of the Thom
son High School have been heard t©
express themselves as being very
much dissatisfied with their recently
acquired diplomas. Some of them
disliked the diplomas from the first,
but after comparison had been mad©
between their diplomas and those of
the graduating classes of 191 , 1911,
1918, 1919, etc., they were plainly
disgusted.
The empaorisn shows that:
1st. The diplomas of the class of
1924 ate of a cheaper grade of paper
than those given the classes of former
years. •
2nd. The names of the pupils are
written §n these diplomas with pen
and ink, whereas the names were en
graved in an elaborate manner on
the diplomas of the classes of 1910,
1917, 1918, etc.
3rd. The other diplomas were
headed, “Thomson Public School,”
whereas the word “Thomson” cannot
be found on these last diplomas,
merely mentioning “this institution,”
giving the reader no idea of what in
stitution “this institution” is, or
where the diplomas were received.
Another objection seems to be that
the diplomas were not signed by the
superintendent of the Thomson Pub
lic Schools, but that he allowed hi©
signature to be affixed to each diplo
ma by a High School graduate.
Some of the members of the grad
uating class are perfectly satisfied
with the diplomas, while others are
contemplating presenting the Board
of Trustees a petition for better
ones, but if the financial condition
of the school is such that they ar©
not able to buy good diplomas, then,
they state, they are perfectly willing
to pay for the better ones themselves,
Respectfullv,
HIGH SCHOOL GRAD,
Restaurant for Pcfs
London lias a restaurant lor Oflti
and dogs, where women .-hoppers Of
others may leave their pets to dine.
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