Col Hepburn Dies Veteran Iowa Congressman
Col W P Hepburn longtime Iowa congressman died at his Clarinda home after a long illness. A Roosevelt era figure, he helped frame the Hepburn law and contributed to the pure food and public health acts as chair of the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee. He served in Congress from 1880 to 1909 and was repeatedly nominated by his party in the Eighth District.
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Clarinda
Col
W. P. Hepburn
Hepburn
Congress
Roosevelt
House Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Stephburn
Washington, D. C
Harrison
Treasury Department
United States
Highth
Council Bluffs
Sapp
Colonel Hepburn
Mrs Meyer on Trial in Winterset Court
District Judge Applegate overruled Ida Meyer's change of venue citing insufficient prejudice evidence. The 60 year old is charged with complicity in her daughter in law's murder. The trial is expected to rival the sensational case of her son Fred Meyer who was convicted of second degree murder for his wife’s death last July 25.
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Meyer
Winterset
Ida Meyer
Applegate
Nevada hog theft arrests with basement butchery found
Isaac Berry and Ted Clarke were jailed in Nevada charged with stealing hogs. A butcher plant was discovered in the Berry home basement where hogs were killed and meat buried in a box. They admit stealing one hog and the elder Berry faces additional bonds as an implicated party.
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Nevada
Iisaac Berry
Ted Clarke
Berry
Comfort for Hogs Costly in Recent Cold
W M Sells of this vicinity lost several valuable brood sows in a recent fire while trying to keep them warm. He placed stoves in hog sheds and a sow was killed by gas fumes. A stove upset or exploded in another shed causing a fire that consumed the building and the sows.
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Sidney
W. M. Sells
Iowa Firm Wins 30,000 Hoe Contract For Africa
The Fort Madison Farming Tool company fills a contract for 30,000 hoes destined for South Africa. Previously supplied by Britain, English factories halted due to the war, allowing the Iowa firm to secure the order.
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Iowa
Africa
Fort Madison
Fort Madison Farming Tool Company
South Africa
Great Britain
Burglary at Nels Jenkins Jewelry Store in Muscatine
Burglars robbed Nels Jenkins jewelry store in Muscatine taking 800 in cash and 2000 in jewelry. Police say the job bears marks of veteran yeggmen and suspects have escaped.
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Muscatine
Muscatiine
Nels Jenkins
Seed corn testing prompts action in Ames reports
Reports of seed testing in Ames show poor results due to a cold damp season and early frost. Bankers and businessmen along with the extension department urge heroic measures to secure the right kind of seed before the next planting season. Tests indicate a surprisingly low germination rate and fertility in the harvest.
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Ames
Ames Extension Department
Milestone Life Ends for 115-Year-Old Woman Adeline Carter
Adaline Carter a descend of slavery born in Kentucky is reported dead at age 115 at the Fred Fehyl home where she had lived thirty five years. Born a slave she remained with Asa Munsel after emancipation and later did free services for the Fehyl family in gratitude for their kindness.
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Milton
Adaline Carter
Fred Fehyl
Kentucky
Asa Munsel
Munsel
Fehyl
Burlington man aims $50 per acre land income model
J F Deems, ex railroad manager, works on a 200 acre Burlington area farm to raise net income per acre from $35 to $50. He notes $200 land value and claims improvements could boost earnings to $50 per acre, building on 20 years in rail and locomotive roles.
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Iowa
Burlington
J. F. Deems
Deems
Ottumwa
American Locomotive Works
New York Central Road
Brandeis Nominated for Supreme Court Attacked in Hearing
Washington hears grave charges against Louis D Brandeis nominee for Supreme Court by Clifford Thorne Iowa railroad commissioner alleging infidelity breach of faith and unprofessional conduct Thorne asserts Brandeis acted for Seaboard Shipowners in 1910 then for Interstate Commerce Commission in 1913 and backed a 714 percent rate as inadequate despite prior commission approval as adequate in 1910
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Washington
Louis D. Brandeis
Wilson
Supreme Court
Clifford Thorne
Iowa Railroad Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Senate
Mr. Brandeis
Brandeis
Shippers
Thorne
Seaboard Shippers’ Association
Iowa
Hoodoo Rumor Plagues Bluff View Farm After Fatal Shootings
Webster City residents discuss a supposed hoodoo over Bluff View stock farm two miles east as three occupants have died. original owner F A Edwards was shot while cleaning a revolver seven years ago, renter William Reinhardt was killed on Independence Day, and Alva M Wright was shot by his own shotgun while hunting.
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Webster City
Bluff View
F. A. Edwards
William Reinhardt
University Hospital Overcrowded Amid Rising Patient Numbers
The university hospital reports crowded facilities despite the opening of the last available space. Superintendent W. T. Graham says the hospital can admit over 300 patients but patient demand has grown faster than capacity. All departments show large increases and more buildings may be sought from the next legislative session.
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University
Town
University Hospital
W. T. Graham
Opinion Upholds Gilman School Consolidation
State Superintendent A M Deyoe rules in favor of former County Superintendent Gert E Miller upholding the legality of the Gilman consolidation. Opponents alleged the plan was perfected illegally, but the ruling supports the previous consolidation in all particulars.
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Marshalltown
A. M. Deyoe
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Gertrude E. Miller
Gilman
Exposure May Cause Boy's Death in Sioux City
Five year old Lyon Sachs suffered a fractured thigh after slipping on an icy sidewalk in a city park on his way home from school. He lay exposed in freezing weather for about thirty minutes, and doctors fear he may not survive the injury and exposure.
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Sioux City
Lyon Sachs
Sachs
State Sewers Ground Opens For Capitol Grounds Project
Des Moines paper notes T. & McCurdy supervises 80 acres around the capitol being cleared for a state park. Forty acres were streets, over 200 buildings razed or moved, with salvaged material funding the changes. McCurdy also runs a salvage yard and brick department while awaiting thaw to resume work after a fall.
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Des Moines
T. &. McCurdy
Capitol
State Executive Council
McCurdy
Capitol Extension
Governor's Square
State House
Naval bills win funding for Mare Island and New York yards
Washington debates first naval bills as House approves 175 to 0 for Naval Academy expansion and authorizes 500000 to outfit Mare Island Navy Yard for a Pacific coast battleship and 100000 to enlarge New York yard facilities. Speaker Clark and Mann push for faster prep. guns to match foreign fleets and broader academy expansion.
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Mare Island Navy Yard
New York
Washington
House
New York Yard
Mare Island Yard
Pacific Coast
Clark
Mann
Annapolis
West Point
United States
Naval Affairs Committee
Lusitania Case Ends as US Accepts German Indemnity
Washington reports a settlement between the United States and Germany over the Lusitania sinking. President Wilson and his cabinet deem the accord satisfactory, accepting Germany’s indemnity for American lives lost in place of a disavowal.
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Washington
United States
Germany
Wilson
Lusitania
Lansing
Hughes bars use of name in presidential nomination
Representative Slemp released a letter from Justice Hughes stating he is totally opposed to the use of his name for the nomination or the selection of delegates. The justice’s letter was in response to Slemp’s note that Frank H. Hitchcock had started a movement in the South backing Hughes.
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Washington
Slemp
Justice Hughes
Frank H. Hitchcock
Taft
South
Town Records Unusual Drunkenness Case In Eight Years
The mayor heard the first drunkenness case in police court here in eight years. The man’s name was withheld. Strict local enforcement has curbed bootlegging and liquor sales are described as rare.
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Indianola
Armor plate makers threaten price hike over plant bill
Washington reports armor plate firms, via Senator Boies Penrose, warned the senate naval affairs committee that passing the armor plate factory bill would trigger a $200 per ton price increase for armor plate. Despite the threat, the committee voted nine to three to back the Tillman bill for $11 million to buy or build an armor plate plant with at least 20,000 tons yearly capacity.
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Washington
Boies Penrose
Pennsylvania
Senate
Naval Affairs Committee
Congress
Tillman
Six Men Die in Two Train Wrecks Near Dunlap and Vincennes
A rear end collision near Dunlap Iowa killed four stockmen and left two more dead in a separate wreck between Vincennes Indiana and St Francisville Illinois. The Dunlap crash cites a defective air brake as the cause. Victims named include George Beachler J G Nelson Alexander Waite and an unidentified man likely John H Johnson. In Vincennes a Big Four train engine and tender plunged into the Wabash River killing Engineer Frank Lancaster and Fireman Oliver Hasselton.
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Dunlap
Northwestern Railroad
George Beachler
Boone
J. G. Nelson
Stanhope
Alexander Waite
Fenton
John H. Johnson
Talmadge
Vincennes
Ind
St. . Francisville
Wabash River
Frank Lancaster
Oliver Hasselton
Will Erect Soldiers Monument in Chariton
The G A R post has set a contract for a soldier's monument in the courthouse square costing 3700 dollars. The monument will rise 29 feet 4 inches high and have a 10 by 10 foot base. The post will also receive two government cannon to place near the monument.
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Chariton
G. A. R. Post
Courthouse Square
Runyan Leaves Oakdale Sanatorium for Colorado Springs Post
Dr W D Runyan assistant superintendent at the Oakdale state sanatorium for tuberculosis will resign after three and a half years to become resident physician at the National Printer's Home in Colorado Springs Colorado. He plans the transfer in the near future.
Naval Bills Win in Senate and House Action
The Senate approved a 600000 appropriation to re equip Mare Island and New York navy yards and increased the Annapolis entrance class by 300. The measures passed the House earlier and now await President Wilson's signature. The naval academy rise was approved without debate.
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Navy
Annapolis
Washington
Senate
Mare Island
New York Navy Yards
Annapolis Naval Academy
House
Wilson
Naval Academy
Illness of Continental and Commercial Bank Leader Reynolds
George McClelland Reynolds, president of the Continental and Commercial National Bank of Chicago, is seriously ill in Los Angeles from bronchial asthma. A native of Panora Iowa, he previously led Des Moines National Bank from 1895 to 1897 before moving to Chicago.
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Des Moines
George McClelland Reynolds
Continental and Commercial National Bank of Chicago
Los Angeles
Cal
California
Reynolds
Panora
Iowa
Des Moines National Bank
Chicago
Des Moines National
Wealthy Woman Indicted in Fraud Case
New York February 11 Mrs Charlotte A Warren wife of Whitney Warren a wealthy New York architect was indicted by the federal grand jury on a charge of making a fraudulent statement to the customs authorities
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New York
Charlotte A. Warren
Whitney Warren
Federal Grand Jury
New Interurban Soon Open in Montezuma
Muscatine and Western railroad officials say the Iowa City Muscatine interurban should operate by March 1 or soon after. Four electric cars are bought for the run while steam service will continue from Muscatine to Montezuma for a period. The company promises Sunday passenger service, much to Montezuma residents' satisfaction.
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Montezuma
Former Tammany Chief John S. Sheehan Dies
John S. Sheehan, once leader of Tammany Hall and former police commissioner, died in New York. He succeeded James A. Croker when Croker retired as Tammany leader.
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Tammany
New York
John S. Sheehan
Tammany Hall
Croker
Sheehan
William Hepburn Dies at 82 Former Congressman
Clarinda Iowa February 9 William Peters Hepburn longtime congressman for the Highth Town district from 1889 to 1909 died at his home after a long decline. He suffered a heart and kidney ailment and was famed as author of the national railroad antipass law. Hepburn chaired the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee in the Fifty fifth congress.
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Clarinda
William Peters Hepburn
Hepburn
Congress
Highth
Van Gijn Named Holland Finance Minister
In The Hague on February 10 Dr Anton Van Gijn was appointed minister of finance for Holland. In Kirkwall Scotland on February 9 a fire Engulfed the cargo hold of the Swedish steamship Texas carrying cotton from New Orleans to Christiania as it neared port. In Washington on February 10 the senate foreign relations committee voted unanimously to recommend ratification of the Haiti protectorate treaty.
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the Hague
Anton van Gijn
Holland
Kirkwall
Scotland
Texas
New Orleans
Christiania
Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Republic of Haiti
Raid on Anarchist Bomb Factory Reported in Lisbon
Lisbon police raided an anarchist bomb factory finding 40 loaded and 40 unloaded bombs, numerous rifles and pistols, and a large quantity of explosives. Several arrests were made.
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Lisbon
Kitchener Likely to Lead British Forces in Egypt
London February 10 Lord Kitchener is expected to depart for Egypt to command British forces and Lord Derby would succeed him as secretary of war according to the Weekly World report.
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Kitchener
Egypt
London
Lord Kitchener
Lord Derby
Weekly World
Steamer Carrect Sinks After North Sea Collision
The Norwegian steamer Carrect of 1,026 tons sank after a collision with another vessel in the North Sea off North Moreland head. Crew were saved.
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Deal
England
North Sea
North Moreland Headland
Train Hits Car Injuring Eleven In Chicago Collision
Eleven passengers were injured when a Pennsylvania Railroad pay train crashed into an Ashland Avenue streetcar at Fifty eighth Street in Chicago. The impact hurled the streetcar across the street.
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Chicago
Pennsylvania Railroad
Ashland Avenue
Fifty Eighth Street
Locomotive Engineer Killed in North Carolina Wreck
Norfolk Va Feb 10 Engineer Wright died and his fireman seriously injured when a Seaboard Air Line flyer traveling north from Florida wrecked near Stanford North Carolina. None of the passengers was injured.
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Norfolk
Wright
Seaboard Air Line
Florida
Stanford
N. C
Seven Men Die In Lance Mine Explosion
Wilkes Barre Pa Feb 11 Seven men are dead and two perhaps fatally burned after a blast at the Lance mine owned by Lehigh and Wilkes Barre Coal company. The cause of the accident is unknown.
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Wilkes-Barre
Lance
Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Company
Prominent Georgia Mason Dies in Macon At Tack of Hiccups
W A WolsHin longtime secretary of the Georgia grand lodge of Masons died in Macon Ga after a four day attack of hiccups. He served as secretary for nineteen years and passed away on Wednesday at age.
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Macon
W. A. Wolshin
Georgia Grand Lodge of Masons
Zeppelins Sink Three Ships in English Raid
Berlin dispatch reports Zeppelins bombed England sinking the British cruiser Caroline and the destroyers Eden and Nics. The Cologne Gazette notes the losses, which the British admiralty denies.
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Berlin
Caroline
Eden
Nics
England
Cologne Gazette
Noted Woman Golfer Mrs Wheeler Dies in Maine
Boston February 11 reports the death of Mrs BE Wheeler at Poland Springs Maine. Wheeler for fifteen years was a leading woman golfer in the United States and was formerly Miss Mary B Adams.
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Boston
Poland Springs
BE. C. Wheeler
Wheeler
Mary B. Adams
Russians Defeated by Persian Tribesmen in Persia
Overseas News Agency reports from Berlin state that Russian forces in Persia were severely defeated by Persian tribesmen. The dispatch dated February 11 cites heavy losses and a setback for Russian troops in the region.
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Berlin
Constantinople
Persia
Iowan Off for War Zone to Rejoin Black Watch
Centerville resident Centerville Jack Bosland of Mystic has returned to Scotland to join the Black Watch regiment at the Front in France. Once a member of the Black Watch he left for America years ago and lived in Mystic eleven years. He read papers for news of the regiment amid reports of heavy losses and recruitment calls. He told his sister he had reached Scotland and would soon be at the front.
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Centerville
Jack Bosland
Mystic
Scotland
Black Watch
France
Bosland
America
John Prentiss Poe
Seed corn shortage hits northeastern Iowa counties
Complete returns from the 1916 seed corn campaign report a severe outlook in Chickasaw and neighboring counties. Director Bliss notes 60,000 bushels of 1914 crib corn exist but only 5,000 bushels are fit as seed. Worth and Chickasaw show shortages, Pocahontas has local surplus.
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Ames
Chickasaw County
Iowa
Bliss
Ames Extension Department
Chickasaw
Worth County
Pocahontas County
Col Horton Hf Marshalltown ill. 76 at Iowa Soldiers’ Home
Col C C Horton commandant of the Iowa Soldiers home is critically ill at his home in Marshalltown. He suffers from heart kidney and arterial trouble and at 76 years his power of resistance is not great.
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Horton
Marshalltown
C. C. Horton
Iowa
Pioneer Nurseryman Dead in Des Moines
Captain C. L. Watrous died at age 79 after long Des Moines residency since 1869. He established a local nursery and ran it until his death. Watrous served on the State Horticultural Society board and was a longtime member of the American Pomology Society, presiding as president for six years.
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Des Moines
C. L. Watrous
State Horticultural Society
American Pomology Society
Packing Plant Surpasses Hog Kill Records in Mason City
Jacob K. Decker and Sons packing house set new northern Iowa marks with 2403 hogs killed in one day and 2525 in another. When the plant additions are complete, daily capacity will reach 2500. The current total nearly matches the first year’s 2230 hogs slaughtered.
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Mason City
Iowa
Jacob K. Decker & Sons
Germany and Austria Warn Sink Armed Merchantmen After March 1
Germany and Austria notified the United States that after March 1 all armed merchantmen would be treated as warships and sunk without warning. Count von Bernstorff and Baron Erich Zwiedinek delivered the notices, as Washington seeks allied responses to a U S disarmament proposal. Berlin argues British admiralty and other war powers authorized armed merchantmen to attack submarines.
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Washington
Germany
Austria
State Department
Count von Bernstorff
Baron Erich Zwiedinek
Lansing
United States
Appam
Peters
Treasury
Malone
New York
Stampalia
Berlin
Vienna Asked to Explain Submarine Attack on Petrolite
Secretary Lansing said he sent a dispatch through Ambassador Penfield to the Austro Hungarian government seeking an investigation and explanation of the Austrian submarine attack on the American tank steamer Petrolite in the Mediterranean near Alexandria. The crew affidavits and other sources say the ship was stopped, a man was wounded, the captain refused food, a boarding party took a crew member hostage, and Austrians seized supplies.
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Washington
Lansing
Penfield
Mediterranean
Alexandria
Thompson
Bandit Robs Pullman Cars Between Green River and Laramie
A lone bandit robbed about twenty passengers on Union Pacific train No. 18 between Green River and Laramie. He netted under 200 dollars and watches, sparing women while forcing men to surrender cash and valuables. He forced the porter to move to the front car where the male passengers were found.
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Laramie
Wyo
Union Pacific
Green River
Guthrie County Bank President M M Reynolds Dies
Panora Iowa February 12 M M Reynolds fifty seven year old president of Guthrie County National Bank and brother of Chicago banker George M Reynolds is dead from self inflicted gunshot wound in a suicide.
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M. M. Reynolds
Panora
Guthrie County National Bank
George M. Reynolds
Chicago
Girl Slain at Lake Forest Near Sacred Heart Academy
Marian Lambert, a student and daughter of Frank Lambert, was found dead near Sacred Heart academy woods in Lake Forest. Police investigate probable murder linked to the Kuppenheimer household.
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Lake Forest
Chicago
Marian Lambert
Frank Lambert
Jonas Kuppenheimer
Sacred Heart Academy
Navy Ready To Battle Any Pacific Enemy, Admiral Declares
Admiral Blue told the house committee the American navy is prepared to meet any foe in the Pacific. Washington dispatch dated February 10.
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Washington
Pacific
Admiral Blue
House Naval Affairs Committee
Saloonkeepers Plan to Move Dry Law Case to Supreme Court
Davenport saloonkeepers facing Iowa dry law have agreed to seek a permanent injunction and then appeal to the state supreme court. The action marks a direct challenge to the dry statute as the legal battle continues.
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Iowa
Davenport
Supreme Court
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State
Naval Bills
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U. S
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Vienna
Petrolite
Bandit
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