Crown Princess of Saxony Seeks Divorce Amid Turmoil
Reports from Vienna Berlin Dresden detail the Crown Princess Louise of Saxony seeking immediate divorce, alleging abuse and torment by Crown Prince. She fears asylum in Salzburg, cites court supervision concerns, and mentions relation with M Giron. Berlin and Dresden note possible mediation and a future move to Mentone.
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Vienna
Saxony
M. Lachenal
Switzerland
Neues Wiener Tarbitt
Salzburg
Thérése
Bavaria
Berlin
Vossische Zeitung
Louise
Giron
Tolstoi
Zola
Nietzsche
André Giron
Lokal Anzeiger
Dresden
George
Geneva
M. Giron
Mentone
Anti gambling bill vows penalties and tidal sums for Ostend Spa
Brussels correspondent reports the anti gambling bill imposes eight days to six months imprisonment for lawbreakers with fines for keeping gaming houses. It indemnifies Ostend and Spa with 5,000,000 £ for Ostend and 2,000,000 f for Spa.
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Lonpox Times
New York
London
Brussels
the Times
Ostend
Spa
Andijan Disaster Described From St Petersburg Dispatch
A St Petersburg report details Andijan in Central Asia after a powerful earthquake. Thousands homeless, one section destroyed, only a cotton gin and a church remain standing. Relief funds are being collected as locals await further communications and aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Petersburg
Andijan
Central Asia
War Department
British Naval Reform plans unified cadet training
Official papers outline a single training system for all naval branches executives engineers and marines to start next July. Cadets receive seven years of shared study with later specialization at age twenty. Speedier promotion and pay revisions are planned while engineer and marine officers may not reach flag rank, inviting opposition.
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London
Earl of Selborne
The
Admiralty
United States
Humbert Case Seized for Madrid Sentences in Paris
Paris reports complete arrangements for Humbert family reception after Madrid arrest on December 20. Authorities plan a guarded transfer, with M. Hennion leading a team of detectives and guards. Legal proceedings likely center on swindling and irregular bankruptcy. Creditors seek equitable asset division.
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Paris
Premier Combes
Vallé
Humbert
Madrid
M. Hennion
Humberts
Humbert fugitives link noted in Buenos Aires arrest
In Buenos Ayres Mme Da lazza, arrested on arrival from France, was released after custody. The Buenos Ayres arrest was part of a government push to capture Humbert fugitives. Calazza was not linked to swindles, but her departure suggested Romain d Aurignac and other Humbert family members may be in the region.
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Buenos Ayres
Mme. Dalazza
France
Taris
Romain d’ Aurignac
Humbert
Calazza
Romain d'Aurignac
Greek currant trade crisis highlights price collapse
The Times notes a paradox in the Greek currant market as overproduction drives prices down. An abundant crop proves less valuable, with 100000 tons yielding more for growers than 150000 tons, and 1899 earnings for 125000 tons at 1,750,000 pounds vs 1,500,000 pounds for 45000 tons.
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London Times
New York Times
London
the Times
Pope not ill as report says in Rome
Rome report states the Pope is in good health and spirits and did not retire until 10 last night. He rose at 7 this morning and celebrated mass in his private chapel. He again celebrated mass tonight and wished everyone a merry Christmas, joking he did not look ill yesterday.
Japan's political crisis drives budget clash over naval funds
Tokyo reports indicate parties seek a compromise to abandon the land tax hike while funding a major naval programme. The cabinet faces broad opposition from the lower house over how to raise money, with Marquis Ito urging economy cuts and rail/telegraph projects to cover costs. The peers' approval is uncertain as lower-house factions delay votes.
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Great Britain
Marquis Ito
House of Peers
German policy blamed in public opinion report
London dispatch notes a large section of German public opinion doubts using force against Venezuela and the Frankfurter Zeitung again urges arbitration as the best solution to the “unedifying and dangerous position.”
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London
Berlin
the Times
Venezuela
Frankfurter’ Zeitung
Poor Winter Crops Plague European Russia Outlook
In European Russia the Winter crops are in bad condition due to late sowing from a late harvest and heavy autumn and winter rains. Frosts halted germination and the seed did not germinate sufficiently. The crop outlook remains serious even in southern provinces.
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Sr. Petersburg
European
Russia
Astor donates £50,000 for child hospital outpatient wing
William Waldorf Astor commits fifty thousand pounds to fund a new outpatient department for the Hospital for Sick Children in Great Ormond Street. The wing will be named in memory of his daughter Gwendoline who recently died.
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London
William Waldorf Astor
Hospital For
Great Ormond Street
British Cotton Spinners Lose Money in Lancashire
London December 4 reports a gloomy year for cotton spinners with eighty five joint stock firms in Lancashire totaling 25.175 million dollars in capital and 6.607 million spindles recording a net loss of seven million.
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London
Lancashire
Macedonian leader threatens Pan-Macedonian revolution
The Times Vienna correspondent reports Boris Sarafof, Macedonian leader, as saying an impending Pan-Macedonian revolution will give Turkey, Bulgaria, Russia and others much to spin. His rhetoric echoes the flamboyant demagogues who led Greece to war with Turkey six years ago.
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Sarafof
London Times
NEW York Times
London
Vienna
the Times
Evening Journal
Boris Sarafof
Turkey
Bulgaria
Russia
Demogesques
Greece
Paris Police Seize Papers in Klondike Mining Probe
Police in Paris seize the papers of Jean de la Mar manager of the Klondike Mining Company amid suspected irregular proceedings. The Paris firm, with French parties, reports three arrests. de la Mar says the mines are operational yielding about $12,000 monthly.
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Paris
Jean de la Mar
Klondike Mining Company
M. de la Mar
Snowstorm Paralyses Constantinople Communications
A violent snowstorm has raged for forty eight hours in Constantinople causing land and sea disruption and telegraph outages. The weather is intensely cold with heavy snowfalls across European provinces of Turkey.
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Constantinople
Turkey
New York Mail Company Hires New Wagon Drivers
Agents for the New York Mail Company hired fresh drivers for wagon delivery at the General Post Office. New hires receive one dollar daily to start or about ten dollars weekly, with two-horse wagons after training. A conference occurred between company president Boomer and the Mail Drivers Union amid talk of a possible strike, with salary demands set at two dollars twenty five cents per day and a ten dollar weekly minimum.
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New York Mail Company
General Post Office
Boomer
Mail Drivers’ Union
Morgan
Bal Blanc Fancy Ball in Washington Hosts and Guests
Washington society notes a Bal Blanc at Charles M. Ffoulke’s Massachusetts Avenue residence honoring his youngest daughter Gwendolyn. Guests included Miss Helen Ffoulke and Miss Eleanor Ffoulke with dinners hosted by the Ffoulkes, Cropper, Foraker, and Huff families.
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New York Times
Washington
Charles M. Ffoulke
Massachusetts Avenue
Gwendolyn Ffoulke
Paris
Ffoulke
John Cropper
Foraker
George Huff
Admiral Schley Stricken With Lumbago Aide Reports
Washington December 24 The reported illness of Admiral Schley causes unease among friends nationwide Telegram inquiries flood in The Admiral is at Richmond with lumbago his physicians expect him to recover within a few days and be out soon.
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New York Times
Washington
Schley
Richmond
Unidentified Man Stricken on Seventeenth Street and Eighth Avenue
A well dressed man in a comatose state was found at Seventeenth Street and Eighth Avenue by Policeman Gilmore of West Twentieth Street Station. An ambulance from New York Hospital treated him for a stroke of apoplexy. No identification was found. he was taken to the hospital.
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Seventeenth Street
Eighth Avenue
Gilmore
West Twentieth Street
New York Hospital
Charles G Warner Suddenly Taken Ill at Club
Charles G. Warner, vice president and general manager of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, collapsed at the Noonday Club this afternoon. He was attended by physicians who restored him to consciousness after about an hour of treatment.
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Charles G. Warner
ST. Louis
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Mr. Warner
Shares in life policy for second wife and children ruled
A judge ruled that a man who takes out a life policy under the Married Women's Property Act 1882 for his wife and children may allow a second wife and her children to share the policy benefits after his death. The decision holds that the trust aims to provide for survivors, not just those of the first marriage, and includes children by any later wife. London Telegraph reports.
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Justice Kekewich
Social Season and Upcoming Weddings in New York
A holiday social roundup notes Christmas in society shifting to private dinners and dances. Notables Mrs Astor and Mrs Gerry host gatherings. the Meadowbrook Club hosts a New Year ball. weddings loom as Miss Katharine Drake and O Harry Gruner plan a January wedding at Collegiate Church. The list includes society hosts, debuts, and forthcoming voyages aboard La Savoie.
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Vanderbilt
Seward Webb
Burlington
George. Vanderbilt
Biltmore
Astor
Meadowbrook Club
Grace Barbey to Wed Baron André de Neuilice
Engagement announced between Miss Grace Barbey daughter of Henry I Barbey of 17 West Thirty-eighth Street and Baron André de Neuilice son of a Paris banker. The couple plans a future ceremony in the near term.
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Grace Barbey
Henry I. Barbey
West Thirty-eighth Street
Baron André de Neuilice
Paris
Quiet Christmas Shopping Amid Sparse Streets
The shopping districts showed near desertion with crowds absent except in bon bon shops. Syrian women sold faces and woven shawls on Twenty-third Street while street peddlers displayed Mary and her little goat, a 25 cent mechanical toy. Demand for simple holly and mistletoe cards grew beyond supply as Christmas goods cooled in price, with wreaths and small ecclesiastical gifts highlighted among German pottery pieces and boxed curiosities.
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Mary
Fifth Avenue
Twenty-third Street
Mary Webster Honeycutt Weds Lieut Frederic Heinrichs in N J
In Glen Coran, Glen Coran, the country home of Mr and Mrs Martin I Cooley, Miss Mary Webster Honeycutt daughter of the late Capt John T Honeycutt and Lieut Frederic W Heinrichs United States Army were married yesterday afternoon. Rev Dr Dwight Hillis of New York officiated. Miss Elinor Webster Lusk maid of honor and Lieut William Piera Ennis best man. Ushers included Lieut Henry Williams Lieut Wade Hampton Carpenter Cadets M Provost Murphy and Quincey O Gilmore. The Lieutenant is stationed at Fort Hamilton.
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Plainfield
N. J
Glencoran
Martin I. Cooley
Mary Webster Honeycutt
John T. Honeycutt
United States Army
Frederic W. Heinrichs
Dwight Hillis
New York
Elinor. Webster Lusk
J. F. Lusk
United
Death of Nate Salsbury Ex-Wild West Show Owner
Nate Salsbury the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show principal owner died at his Tulberry Street home after long stomach troubles. He built the Reservation near North Long Branch and led the Salsbury Troubadours touring Europe and the United States before turning to Wild West ventures with Col. Cody. He served in the Fifteenth Illinois and the Railroad Regiment fighting at Chickamauga and in the Texas campaign. Born Rockport, Illinois, he rose from comic performer to impresario through a varied career in theater and attractions.
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Tong Branch
N. J
Nate Salsbury
Buffalo Bill
Tulberry Street
Tie
North Long Branch
Long Branen
Salsbury
London
Col. Coly
Buffalo Will
Mr. Salsbury
Rockport
Col. Turner
Illinois
Grand Rapids
Mich
Colorgog
Nellie McIlenry
William J. Florence
John Webster
Webster
Salsbury Troubadours
Europe
United States
Troubadours
Col. Cody
Seaman Lichtenstein Merchant Dies A City Produce Leader
Seaman Lichtenstein of 14 West 74th Street and 81 Barclay Street died yesterday at age 77. Born to poor parents in New York, he began selling newspapers in 1825 and built a vast produce business, partnering with Jane McCollick before becoming sole owner. He amassed a large family with fourteen children and enjoyed a career noted for its rapid rise from scraps to a leading national produce house.
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Seaman Lichtenstein
West Seventyfourth Street
Barclay Street
Mr. Lichtenstein
Albany
Washington Market
Jane McCollick
Hoboken
Peter Cooper
McCollick
W. H. Vanderbilt
T. C. Eastman
John Bacon
The
Forsyths
Sam Mott
Connecticut Savings Grow In Deposits And Depositors
Hartford Dec 24 The annual report of the Bank Commissioners shows Connecticut savings banks hold 208 52 255 in deposits, up 10 273 316 from last year. Depositors total 444 407, rising 18 819, with an average per depositor of 457 96, up from 454 67 in 1901. The report notes a trend to invest more in railroad bonds, which increased 8 652 674.
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New York Times
Hartford
Conn
Connecticut
Richmond minister dies in Jersey City hospital
The Rev. Charles E. Stewart a colored minister from Richmond Virginia died in City Hospital yesterday from pneumonia. He was sixty five and retired by the Methodist Conference last Summer.
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Charles E. Stewart
Richmond
Jersey City
City
Methodist
Newburg Pastor Goes West
The Rev. Robert H. Beattie of Newburg New York has accepted a call to the First Presbyterian Church in Austin. Beattie formerly taught Latin at Princeton University.
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Chicago
Robert H. Beattie
Newburg
N. Y
First Presbyterian Church
Austin
Beattie
Princeton
Death of Col. H. C. Lockwood Soldier, author, and lawyer
Col. Henry Clay Lockwood died in Bellevue Hospital after a brief illness at sixty three. A veteran of the Civil War, he served as captain and major, wrote on constitutional topics, and practiced law in New York. He was a member of the G A R and other military orders and was never married.
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Henry Clay Lockwood
Bellevue Hospital
Col. Lockwood
Munson I. Lockwood
Westchester County
William H. Morris
Sixth Army
Sixth Army Corps. Col. Lockwood
the Wilderness
Spottsylvania Court House
John H. Martingale
Ames
Fort Fisher
New York
Lockwood
Seventy-first Regiment
Congress
Executive Council
France
Military Order of the Loyal Legion
Army of the Potomac
Army of the James
Ferry operator Alexander Ferris dies at 78 in Williamsburg
Alexander Ferris who once ran a Greenpoint to Broome Street ferry died Tuesday in his seventy ninth year at his daughter Mary Van Horns home in Williamsburg. Born in Greenwich Connecticut he moved with his parents to Williamsburg as a child and trained as a ship carpenter becoming a skilled yacht builder. He leaves five children six grandchildren and two great grandchildren. The funeral will be tomorrow afternoon with interment at Cypress Hills Cemetery.
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Alexander Ferris
India Street
Greenpoint
Broome Street
Mary E. van Horn
Ainslie Street
Williamsburg
Greenwich
Conn
Cypress Hills Cemetery
Major Emory S. Foster Dies in California
Major Emory S. Foster, a Union veteran and longtime St. Louis civic leader, is reported dead in Oakland, California, from an old Civil War wound. He was sixty four. Foster served in public offices and edited The St. Louis Journal and Times for nine years.
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ST. Louis
Emory S. Foster
Oakland
Cal
Notable Obituaries of Four Local Figures
WilliaM H Banta former Township Committee member dies at 54 in Nutley Centre Street home from complications of disease. Charles B Smith Newark druggist head of C B Smith Co dies at 62 at 318 Clinton Avenue native of Lackawanna Penn lived in Newark most his life. Joseph Whiteman former New York police sergeant dies suddenly of heart disease at White Plains residence of son in law Mary Tompkins age 70 leaves two daughters. Joseph L McBurney treasurer of National Lead Company dies at home in city pneumonia at 51 long time executive since 1891 member of Union Club and Drug Trade Club.
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William H. Banta
Centre Street
Nutley
N. J
Charles B. Smith
Newark
C. B. Smith & Co
Molineux
Clinton Avenue
Mr. Smith
Lackawanna
Penn
Joseph Whiteman
New York
Tompkins
Mamaroneck Avenue
White Plains
Whiteman
Frank Hessela
Josepph L. McBurney
National Lead Company
Kr. McBirney
Union Club
Drug Trade Club
Death of a Utah Pioneer George W Thatcher
George W Thatcher a Utah pioneer and longtime figure in politics and church affairs dies at his Logan home after a long illness at sixty two. He crossed with the first Mormon pioneers and rode in the pony express era later aiding anti church influence campaigns in Utah politics.
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New York Times
Salt Lake
Utah
George W. Thatcher
Logan
Thatcher
Plains
Democratic Party of Utah
Moses ‘Thatcher
Brigham Young
Moses Thatcher
United States
B. H. Roberts
Ceoveress
Wilford Woodruff
Messrs. Twatcher
Roberts
Congress
Notable Obituaries and Funeral Notices From New York Area
Death notices and private funeral arrangements announced for Margaret R. Allerton Helen G Alexander Thomas Bowne and others across New York and New Jersey. Listings include ages locations dates residence Saint Luke's Hospital Rahway Stony Brook Pelham Newport Madison and Fresh Pond Crematory with private services and burial notes.
Cypress Hills Cemetery Access By Brooklyn Ferries
From Brooklyn ferries by electric or elevated railroad the New York office at 1 Madison Ave outlines the Cypress Hills Cemetery route.
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Cypress Hills Cemetery
Brooklyn
New York
Madison Av
Epilepsy cures explored in Dr Williamson pamphlet
A pamphlet from Dr Williamson discusses which epilepsy cases may be curable. It notes the pamphlet was sent to readers and provides contact at Box 247 Dobbs Ferry N Y for correspondence.
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Dresdeners
British Naval Reform
Rome
Japan
Tokio
Times
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Wagon Delivery Company
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Clarence Mackay
Madison Avenue
Katharine Hays Drake
Simeon J. Drake
O. Harry Gruner
Siegfried Gruner
Forty-eighth Street
Miss Drake
Gladys Robinson
Eleanor Lewis
Emma Harding
Margaret Riley
Philadelphia
Gruner
Clark Read
Parke Wood
Sewall Boardman
John J. Knox
Arthur Moore
Alexander Riley
S. Joseph Drake
James H. McLean
Mr. Gruner
Cecil Boardman
Herbert Parsons
Rosalie Doe Campbe
Augustine Jacqueline Smith
Daniel le Roy Dresser
Edwin H. Weatherbee
Miss Henrietta Weatherbee
Kk. J. Collins
Gerrit Smith
East Thirty-third Street
M. Pugnon
M. Dumiroff
Mme. Remenyi
la Savoie
Fernando’ de ‘Alamany
Lepic
Count de Portes
Ene
Heinrichs—Honeycutt
Long Branch
Col
H. C. Lockwood
Icaria
Allerton
West End Avenue
New York City
Margaret R. Doblin
Whitmores
Bowne
Rahway
Thomas
Richard H
Emily Lowne
Dreyer
Rudolf Dreyer
St. James, L. L
Stony Brook
Overhill Farm
Hioyt
Stamford
William Hoyt
Noroton Hill
New York Depot
Lawrence
Flushing
William Effingham
William Effingham Lawrence
Bayside
Long Island
Madison
Christopher St
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
Boston
Mapelsden
Ann Mapelsden
Reuben Mapelsden
Moyer
John Seely Ward, Jr
East 46Th St
Manhattan
Ascher
Charles
G Pike
Atkins
Rebeca
Beau
Ellen
Connors
Mary A
Elith St
Cooney
Castria
Nicola
Colwele
Annie
Delehanty
Catharine
Evans
Nancy
Gallagher
Lillie
Oor Grundmann
Henry J
Os Goldfarl
Minnie
Varick
Helen Ca Adersaenvess
Wiyatt
Thompson
Kugalis
Bozile
Kelly
Mamie
Hamilton St
Keller
John A
Kalmus
Victor
Greenwich St
Luciano
Kusina
Yons
Leo
Tii
Broome
Luolbeer
Esther
Pitt St
Miner
Moilan
Anta M
Amsterdam
Moran
James A
Madison St
Moore
Terry
Ebece
Oe Miller
Jane
Catharine L
Minetta
Moses
Adele
Messanov
Antonio
God St
Murray
William
Meelroy
John
Wood
Rodney
Ruth
Sweeney
Gold
Breollyn
Feertee
Os Stern
Minme
Henry Ton
Ul Vanett
Peter
Williams
Kate
Harry
Vandam St
Wright
Catherine
Walker
Ephraim
Aif
Lenox
Walsii
Henry St
Wendorff
Fanny
Weber
Christina
Sue
Wiichtt
Margaret
Baptist” Home
Bronx
Richard
Lowy
Vernon Wan
West 68Th St
Anton
Wolf
Gustav
Katharine
Haziel
Mills
Bleee
Anderson, Jacob
Thatford Av
Baker
Eva
Mauser St
Tia
Chapman
Gr Cookingham
Eugene
Pacific
He Crow
Orin
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Culverwell
Joseph
Davis
Ada_M
Rockaway
Alice
Atlantic
Egan
James
Plymouth St
Eiselmann
Patrick F
Hicks
Ces
McGee
Hannah
Manhattan Aves
Tigilius Wilhelmina
Norweg
Wilkinson
Dean
Illiamson
Alfred E
Henry
Anne R
Calver Liv
Wilson
Hamburg
Woerther
P. G
Ry Yankowski
Adelia
Berry
Yost
Kings Co
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