Seed Corn Scarce Spurs Iowa Seed Line Drive
Ames reports a critical seed corn shortage as planting outside seed risks big losses for Iowa farmers. Extension Director R. K. Bliss notes farmers statewide mobilize with county agents in 14 counties to locate test store and distribute home seed to prevent reduced yields and revenue.
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Iowa
Ames
R. K. Bliss
Henry
Muscatine
Des Moines
Scott
Clinton
Linn
Montgomery
Greene
Black Hawk
Clay
Wright
Cerro Gordo
Chickasaw
Floyd
Worth
Pocahontas
Widow of Ray Watson Receives Carnegie Hero Medal
Nevada reports the Andrew Carnegie hero commission awarded a hero medal and a life pension to Mrs. Ray Watson, widow of a Stanhope native who died two years ago trying to save a man from suffocation in a well. She will receive 25 dollars annually for life and five dollars monthly for each of her three children until they reach 16.
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Nevada
Ray Watson
Stanhope
Andrew Carnegie Hero Commission
Will Guard Powder Plant at Mooar Keokuk District
Special guards for the E I du Pont de Nemours Powder plant at Mooar five miles from Keokuk have been placed on duty. J F McSweeney, special agent from Wilmington, has been in the city for several days. Three guards have been selected. Mooar plant is the largest black powder plant globally.
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Keokuk
E. I. du Pont de Nemours Powder Company
Mooar
J. F. McSweeney
Wilmington
du Pont Company
Saloonkeepers Enjoined in Davenport Fight Over Dry Laws
Davenport judge signs a temporary injunction against three saloon keepers who started a fight against Iowa dry laws. No contest to the order. a hearing on a permanent injunction will be held later.
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Davenport
Donegan
Scott County
Iowa
Farm Values Rise Across Iowa Per Acre Market
Ames notes farm lands in Iowa gained an average of 57.84 dollars per acre over the last decade. This increase exceeds the typical value per acre in all states except New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and California.
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Ames
Iowa
Union
New Jersey
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
California
Grip Patient 103 Years Old in Shenandoah
"Uncle Johnnie" Phipps of Farragut, nearly 104, is homebound with grip. A lifelong outdoorsman, his confinement proves irksome as he nears another milestone after being initiated into the Elks lodge at age 100.
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Grip
Shenandoah
Johnnie” Phipps
Farragut
Phipps
Elks Lodge
State Oil Inspector Chantland Dies at 73
Ft. Dodge and Badger resident 73 year old State oil inspector Chantland died at home from heart failure. He had lived in Badger about forty years and served in his office.
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Ft. Dodge
Thomas Chantland
Badger
Mr. Chantland
Dodge Left Much to Charity, Council Bluffs
The will of Gen. Grenville M. Dodge provides for numerous charitable bequests. The bulk of the estate, valued at over 1 million dollars, is left in trust for heirs. Fifty thousand dollars is left to establish a railroad men library in Council Bluffs. Fifty thousand dollars funds relief for Civil War veterans and their families. Fifty thousand dollars endows an engineering chair at Norwich University in Northfield Vermont, where Dodge graduated.
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Dodge
Council Bluffs
Grenville M. Dodge
Norwich University
Northfield
Vermont
Gen. Dodge
First Concrete Bridge at Rock Rapids 1893
The first reinforced concrete bridge in the United States was built at Rock Rapids in 1893 spanning the Rock River. Designed by Frederick von Emperger, a friend and representative of Prof. Joseph Melan who introduced Melan arch bridges. Von Emperger resides in Vienna.
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Rock Rapids
United States
Rock River
Frederick van Emperger
Joseph Melan
von Emperger
Melan
Vienna
Austria
Half Million Dollar Fire Ravages Ottumwa Block
Fire of unknown origin at 2 a.m. destroyed N Friedman dry goods stock valued at 200000 and the three story building worth 75000. Swirles dry goods stock 30000 and building 25000 suffered damage. Other stores including Nelson Cloak Woolworth and Stevens Shoe also damaged, total losses exceed 500000 with three fourths insurance. 150 workers left jobless. firemen faced collapsing walls during the blaze.
Enthusiastic Good Roads Meeting Planned in Des Moines
Des Moines to host what organizers call the greatest Iowa roads meeting. Over 1,000 boosters are expected, with the Iowa Bankers Association Great Iowa association and Jefferson Lincoln Highway groups backing the event. Organizers include I C Carson Grinnell E H Spalding and W A Hopkins, with speakers likely from Governor Clarke's better road commission and the state highway commission.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa Bankers Association
Greater Iowa Association
Jefferson and
Lincoln Highway Associations
I. C. Carson
Iowa City
E. H. Spalding
Grinnell
W. A. Hopkins
Iramoni
George W. Clarke
Better Road Commission
State Highway Commission
Seed Corn Outlook Discouraging in Cedar Falls
County Agriculturist A. A. Burger reports on 150 seed corn samples from Black Hawk county show at the corn show. Only about 65 percent of the sample seed was strong enough for good germination with many ears containing weak or dead kernels. Farmers using last year’s crop face likely to get at most a two thirds stand next spring unless every ear is tested.
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Cedar Falls
Black Hawk County
A. A. Burger
Otumwa Faces Yet Another Mysterious Fire on Commercial Street
Deputy State Fire Marshal H. G. Zimmerman investigates a series of fires in Ottumwa. A blaze at Graves cigar factory caused about 75000 dollars in losses, with insurance nearly covering it. Fire Chief Sloan doubts origin, while ten below zero hampered crews. The Nienfeyer Paper Supply building was saved but its stock soaked.
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Ottumwa
H. G. Zimmerman
Commercial Street
Graves Cigar
Sloan
Zimmerman
Big Nienfeyer Paper Supply Company
County Divorces Highlight 1915 Iowa Rates
Marshalltown reports 22.7 percent of marriages ending in divorce for 1915, a drop from 23.1 percent in 1914, suggesting a statewide if dramatic trend toward rising divorces across Iowa counties with similar ratios to marriages.
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Marshalltown
Iowa
Battles for Czernowitz and Czartorysk Rage On
A Saloniki dispatch reports French air raids on Sofia causing damage and panic. Russians hold Czernowitz after fierce street fighting at Czartorysk as fronts shift amid massive casualties, with Austro-Hungarian losses blamed for demoralization and heavy fighting described as among the war’s worst.
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London
Exchange Telegraph Company
Saloniki
Sofia
Czartorysx
Czernowitz
Bayan
Czartorysk
Petrograd
Pester Lloyd
Dardanelles
Bethmann Hollweg Declares Prussia Marching Toward Victory
Berlin reports Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg opening the 1916 Prussian diet saying Germany cannot be starved out and will be powered by its agriculture and industry. He notes the war will continue, a new income tax bill will be introduced, and railroad building will proceed despite the conflict.
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Berlin
von Bethmann-Hollweg
Prussia
Germany
Prominent Preacher James A. Ross Dies at 60
Prairie City Rev. James A. Ross aged 60, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church, dies of pneumonia. A Des Moines conference figure, he served over thirty years in ministry and held key pastorates since 1893. Survived by wife, son, and daughter.
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Prairie City
James A. Ross
Methodist Episcopal Church
Des Moines
Iowa
Spencer Plans Extensive Municipal Improvements This Year
Spencer plans paving blocks costing about 100000, a new city hall, and sewer and water extensions totaling about 12000. A new park opens. The city treasury holds 10000, and the light and water plants are valued around 75000.
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Spencer
Grinnell College Awards Contract for Alumni Building
President Main announces Grinnell college has let the contract for the new Alumni building. Construction will start immediately and is to be completed by the opening of college next September. The project costs $150,000.
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Grinnell
Main
Grinnell College
Life Saved by Bone Grafting at Creston
Coitle Conley an 80 year old resident of Creston survived after surgeons grafted bone from his right shin onto his jaw to replace decayed jaw bone. The operation went well and he is rapidly recovering with only a small facial scar expected.
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Creston
Coitle Conley
Conley
Centerville Bridegroom Dies Soon After Christmas Wedding
Carl Johnson aged 26, a well known farmer living west of Centerville, fell ill on New Year's Day and died after a short illness. The same minister who performed his Christmas Day marriage delivered his funeral sermon seventeen days later.
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Centerville
Carl Johnson
Johnson
Judge Bradshaw Dead in Toledo After Long Legal Career
Toledo Iowa mourns Hon C B Bradshaw 76 a former Marshall Tama Benton district judge 1906 13 who died at home heart failure He enlisted as a Civil War captain of Company H 24th Infantry before resuming law practice for 49 years He was a prominent Iowa lawyer.
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Bradshaw
Toledo
C. B. Bradshaw
Marshall-Tama-Benton
Iowa
Cornell College
Twenty-fourth Infantry
Residents Seek Liquor Ban in Cascade
Cascade residents sign a petition with more than 400 names asking the Dubuque county board of supervisors to deny any liquor permit for medical sale in Cascade. The board notes it cannot issue such permits and refers the matter to the District court for proper authority.
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Dubuque
Cascade
Smallpox outbreak quarantines workers at Perry colony
Two hundred Bailey and Marsh laborers at the state epileptic colony near Woodward are under quarantine for smallpox. The outbreak began in a bunk house with three laborers sent to a pesthouse tent. Bunk houses were fumigated and precautions taken. no one is seriously ill.
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Perry
Bailey & Marsh
Woodward
Fire destroys Sioux City church with $60,000 loss
Fire from an overheated furnace gutted the First Congregational church the city’s largest. Insurance coverage set the loss at $60,000 as firefighters battled snow and cold while roofs of nearby homes were ignited by sparks. The Reinhart apartment house nearby was saved.
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Sioux City
First Congregational Church
Brrt
Reinhat
Grip Proves Fatal To Three In Cedar Falls
Grip proved fatal to three members of Mrs Amy Foz family in Cedar Falls within thirty six hours. Mrs Foz aged 95 died first followed by daughter Mary aged 68 and another daughter Elma who died nine hours later. Private funeral held and all buried in same grave.
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Cedar Falls
Amy Foz
State Buys Land Fronting Fourth Street Near Prison
The state and Fort Madison Chair Co. signed papers making the state owner of a 250 foot by fronting tract near the prison. Previously used for storage by the chair company, it will likely be used for storage or related needs for the new chair factory the state is installing at the prison, expected to operate within weeks.
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Fort Madison
Fourth Street
Quiet after prison mutiny at Anamosa cools following rumors
Reports from Warden McClaughry indicate order has returned to Anamosa after a month long mutiny and riot sparked by rumors of McClaughry’s transfer and his subsequent reappointment.
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Anamosa
McClaughry
Seventeen Die In Train Crash In Brandon Yard
Seventeen workmen were killed and fifteen fatally injured when a snow-clearing train collided with a stock train in Canadian Pacific yards at Brandon Manitoba. Sixty men were aboard the caboose as crews moved it in record cold to minus 46 degrees.
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Winnipeg
Man
Canadian Pacific Railway
Brandon
Caboose
France seeks 20 million to boost ship fleets
France plans to ask parliament to authorize a treasury advance of 20 million dollars to ship owners to enable them to increase their fleets by purchasing allied or neutral vessels, addressing the wartime transportation shortage.
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Paris
U S Releases Armed Liner Giuseppi Verdi
The Italian steamer Giuseppi Verdi departed from Genoa with two guns mounted on her stern after obtaining permission from McAdoo to sail for Ge noa for defensive purposes.
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U. S
New York
Giuseppi Verdi
Genoa
McAdoo
Monster petition seeks arms embargo in Congress
A large petition demanding an embargo on arms and ammunition exports was presented to the House on Thursday by Representative Bennett of New York.
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Washington
House
Bennett
New York
Telegraphic notes from around the world
Reports from Sault Ste. Marie Paris Madrid Baltimore New York and Washington detail a hotel fire, stock broker fatalities, metal worker strikes, a pay raise at Maryland Steel, a torpedoed liner off the Irish coast, and Austrian denial of submarine involvement in the Persia sinking with suspicion of a mine or internal explosion.
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Sault Ste. Marie
Ont
New International
Paris
The
Figaro
Madrid
Barcelona
Baltimore
Maryland Steel Company
New York
Galveston
Washington
Austria
United States
Persia
Baron Edich Zwiedinek
State Department
Mediterranean
Fire destroys hotel and shops in Panama incident
A major blaze in Panama on January 14 damaged the American hotel and several nearby buildings including retail stores and an ice factory. Several people were wounded but none seriously, with losses estimated at about $500,000.
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Panama
Leggio Hangs Self in Sing Sing Death House
Ossining N Y Jan 14 Angelo Leggio sentenced to die by electric chair for hiring a killer to slay a rival committed suicide in the Sing Sing death house by hanging himself before execution
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Ossining
N. Y
Angelo Leggio
Sing Sing
Kaiser’s illness worsens as specialists rush to Berlin
The Idea Nazionale reports the Kaiser’s condition suddenly worsened. Two specialists are said to have been summoned from the front, while princes have arrived in Berlin.
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Kaiser
Rome
Idea Nazionale
Berlin
Europe 1915 Food Bill Exceeds One Billion Dollars
Export figures released by the department of commerce show Europe’s 1915 food bill in the United States near one billion dollars as a result of wartime trade.
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Europe
Washington
Department of Commerce
United States
New Party Forms in Germany with Sensational Zurich Manifesto
Travelers arriving in Switzerland report a powerful new German republican party has formed and will promptly publish a sensational manifesto in Zurich. The claim centers on a rapid political development that could reshape German politics and influence Swiss observers.
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Germany
Zurich
Switzerland
Schmidt Must Die in New York Murder Case
Justice Hughes denied Schmidt's writ of error in the murder of Anna Autouller. He faces execution by electric chair scheduled this week.
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Washington
Justice Hughes
The
Supreme Court
Hans Schmidt
Anna Autouller
Schmidt
Bill 10 Passes as Conscription Backed by Irish Support
London Jan 14 The compulsory military service bill cleared its second reading in the House of Commons by 421 to 39 after an earlier 403 to 105 vote. Premier Asquith said Britain must act to fulfill obligations to allies. The Miners Federation will vote on a nationwide strike against conscription, while labor resignations were withdrawn as a sign of possible labor peace.
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London
England
House of Commons
Asquith
Great Britain
Miners’ Federation
United Kingdom
Labor
Arthur Henderson
Board of Education
William Brace
George H. Roberts
Home Affairs
the Treasury
Progressives Ready to End National Party Role in 1916 Race
George W. Perkins and Bull Moose leaders tell the Progressive national committee in Chicago they seek amity with Republicans. They say Progressives may forgo Roosevelt nomination if amalgamation occurs, and they set June 7 in Chicago for a national convention. Perkins names preparedness as a chief campaign issue.
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Progressive National Committee
Roosevelt
Chicago
Progressive Party
George W. Perkins
Theodore Roosevelt
Perkins
Mr. Roosevelt
Moosers
Mr. Perkins
Six New Haven Men Freed In Directors Trial Acquittals
Six of eleven New Haven directors trial defendants were acquitted. The jury disagreed on five others including William Rockefeller, with an 8 to 4 vote for acquittal on final tally. Names acquitted were D Newton Bar ney, Robert W Taft, James S Hemingway, A Heaton Robertson, Frederick F Brewster, Henry K Mc Harg. The indictments remain against William Rockefeller Charles F Brooker Charles M Pratt Lewis Cass Ledyard Edward D Robbins. Jury deliberated 31 hours.
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New York
New Haven
William Rockefeller
R. L. Batts
D. Newton Barney
Robert W. Taft
James S. Hemingway
A.heaton Robertson
Frederick F. Brewster
Schmidt Gets Life Term For Times Building Dy namiting
Mathew A. Schmidt, convicted of murder in the dynamiting of the Times building five years ago, was sentenced to life imprisonment in San Quentin.
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Schmidt
Los Angeles
Cal
Mathew A. Schmidt
Times
San Quentin
IWW Demands 20 Percent Wage Increase in Textile Industry
Fall River Massachusetts January 15 The Industrial Workers of the World has forwarded a demand to the Cotton Manufacturers association for a twenty percent wage increase for all departments of the textile industry.
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Fall River
Mass
Industrial Workers of the World
Lave
Cotton Manufacturers’ Association
Fire Devastates Ottumwa Retail District
A large fire in Ottumwa Iowa destroyed five downtown stores causing about 500000 dollars in damages and leaving over 100 workers jobless. The blaze began in a department store and spread through the heart of the retail district.
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Ottumwa
Missionary Doctor Frederick D. Shepard Dies in Turkey
Announcement from the American Board reports the death of Dr. Frederick D. Shepard a medical missionary at Aintab Turkey from typhus fever His death was received in Boston on January 13 by the board and follows years of service overseas.
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Turkey
Boston
Aintab
Frederick D. Shepard
American Board of Commissioners
Victoriano Huerta Dies in El Paso at 62
Former provisional president of Mexico Victoriano Huerta died in El Paso on a Thursday night after lung hemorrhages following final rites. Born in 1854, Huerta rose from National Military School to command, later arresting Madero and overseeing his murder. Civil war followed as Carranza and Villa opposed him. Wilson did not recognize his presidency. He resigned on July 15 1914 and fled by the Dresden to Europe.
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el Paso
Victoriano Huerta
Mexico
Victoriano Huerta Was Sent To the National Military
Chapultepec
Porfirio Diaz
Diaz
Huerta
Madero
Senators
Carranza
Villa
Wilson
United States
Tampico
Willson
Vera Cruz
Brazil
Chile
Americana
Dresden
Europe
Six British Flyers Killed in War Front Losses
London reports four British aircraft did not return after missions and a British repulse near Armentieres. Berlin asserts Lieutenants Boelke and Immelmann shot down two British planes NE of Arras and near Bapaume. A fourth British plane fell near Rombaix and a fifth near Ligney with six of eight officers killed.
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London
Armentieres
Lille
Givenchy
Berlin
Boelke
Immelmann
Aurconig
Bapaume
Rombaix
Ligney
Montenegrins Evacuate Cetinje as Austrian Fleet Blocks Adriatic
Montenegrin government reportedly evacuated Cetinje while German sources say Austrians are within six miles of the capital after Mount Lovcen defeat. The Austrian fleet with three dreadnoughts concentrates in the Gulf of Cattaro, threatening Italian Adriatic activity. Warships bombarded Mount Lovcen from Cattaro.
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Cetinje
Teutons
Paris
Mount Lovcen
Gulf of Cattaro
Italy
Adriatic
Cattaro
Corfu Neutrality Claimed by German Press
Berlin reports German newspapers discuss the Corfu landing and say a treaty among England France and Russia guarantees Corfu will remain neutral. The claim emphasizes international guarantees amid troop movements on the island.
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Isle of Corfu
Berlin
Corfu
England
France
Russia
Blast in Powder Mill in Portland injures none
An explosion at the Newhall plant of the Du Pont Powder company in Portland Missouri occurred Thursday. The blast was felt five miles away but no one was injured. Plotters are suspected.
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Portland
Newhall
du Pont Powder Company
British Steamer Tafna Avoids German Submarine
The British steamer Tafna arrived in Barcelona after eluding a German submarine that chased it several miles in the Mediterranean. The Tafna is noted as the largest ship in the Mediterranean trade.
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Barcelona
Tafna
Mediterranean
Ten Whales Wash Ashore Off Cape Hatteras
Ten whales weighing 1,000 to 3,060 pounds each were washed ashore at Cape Hatteras Monday night near Norfolk. Marine men believe ships struck and killed the whales.
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Norfolk
Cape Hatteras
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Kercney
ST. Louis Republic
Reecney
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Bethmann
DIET
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Hem
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