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W LOCAL ITEMS There was snow in the Catskills Satur— day. . Judge Munger of Ansonia was in ,town last week. —Miss Stevens’ school will reopen Wed- nesday September 17th. Mrs. Frederick Belden has returned from her visit to the Catskills. Miss Belle Olmstead, of Union Park, is visiting friends in Port Chester. Stone-mason Wm. Sheldon will build the new St. John avenue sewer. Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll and family visited friends in Wilton last week. Constable Wallace Dann did the Centaur act as marshal at the races last week. George H. Raymond has a new and gorgeous business wagon on the street. Mr. W. B. E. Lockwood is among the Norwalk contingent at the White Moun- tains. __'____ ' Mr. Samuel Mitchell is“ very low with an illness from which he is not expected to recover. Ex—Gov. P. C. Lounsbnry is in the Adirondack woods for the second time this season. Senators Frye and Hale have come out flat-footed in favor of Mr. Blaine’s recip— rocity schgme. On Wednesday of next week Mr. W. Russell Mackey and Miss Emily A. Miner are to be married. =Mrs. H. Garside, who has been visiting in town, returned to her home in Trenton, N. J., Saturday. New Canaan anticipates a red letter day on the occasion of her flag raising, which will occur Sept. 1st. Mrs. Fred A. Taylor and children, of Orchard street are visiting with Mrs. Tay- lor’s sister in Newark, N. J. Wm. Thompson of Norwalk, is one of the bidders for the contract for building the new sewers in Danbury. Edgar Bouton and Patrick Rehea were arrested and fined in South Norwalk for being drunk last Wednesday. Mrs. George Edwards. ends her summer vacation at Darien this week and returns to her home in Washington. > , Err-Governor Ames, of Massachusetts, puts it thus :—“I am a Protectionist, but I believe in common sense.” i A buyer for a Broadway wholesale house is said to earn $50,000 by his skill in forecasting the dry goods market. Constable Chas. Planz’, of New Milford, was one of the gatemen at the Fair Grounds during the races last week. ' h “wild mountain Three cheers for t e ' village of Ansoniai”—Derby Transcript. Tiger for the wild mountain! From descriptive dispatches it would seem that Wilkesbarre was visited by a cyclone of more than usual violence. -—Everything pertaining to horse fur nishings, carriages, etc., at greatly reduc- ed prices, at W. E. Dann’s, 50 Wall St. 17 Mr. Charles Seymour and wife, of New C, York, are visiting Mr. Seymour’s father, Mr. William H. Seymour, on West Main street. . ; - .- ‘ Patrick Foley, of Danbury, an inmate of the soldiers’ home at Noroton, aged 50 years, was killed by the cars in Darien, - Tuesday. The Sixth Connecticut Volunteers will hold their annual reunion this year at New Britain, on WedneSday, the 10th Of September. . Charles Riley, formerly of Norwalk, Who is now in the service of Uncle Sam at West Point, was in town for a brief visit last week. New York, Brooklyn, and. Jersey City are threatened with a brick famine. The I“prickmakers have placed an embargo-upon those cities. - Mrs. C, H. Dunham and Miss Lucy Dunham, of Plainfield, N. J., are the ' nests of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Mosher, on North avenue. ' - ‘ ' . - Tax Collector St. John gives notice to the tax payers of the town that he is duly- ‘ and fully prepared to receive their taxes; and tells in another column where he will meet them. , It seems to be a question With some who failed to win money at the races last week, whetherthose who did win money really did win money: Rev. ‘Mr. Selleck gave the children of 'St. Paul’s Sunday school a joyous lawn party yesterday, on the the beautiful rectory grounds. Sixty—five years ago Emmonds Rudge was arrested in Hartford for selling ice, as the doctors of the city had decided that it ' was unhealthy to use it. On Saturday of this week the daily trips of the steamer Cape Charles, from Wil- son’s Point to New York and return, will “be discontinued for the season. Mr. A. E. Kroger is kept busy answer- ing letters of application for space at the Danbury fair ground, for the fair which is in session the first week in October. Mr. A. C. Sternberg, of West Hartford, one of the wide-awake farmers of the state, is marketing a few of the choice fruit for which his orchard is famous. Captain Betts, borough tax collector, tells our readers that Burr Smith will “hustle” those of our borough taxpayers who neglect to pay their taxes by Sept. 1. George R. Byington, Norwalk’s patent attorney at Washington, is taking out a trade mark of a very pretty and unique designs for John H. Buckley & Son’s elastic web goods. Mrs. Jennie Mendez, of Chicago, is visiting with Mrs. F. E. Buxton. Mrs. Menuez was a resident of Norwalk some years ago but this is her first visit east in about four years. William E. Dann, Esq., was among the jolly excursionists to Saratoga. He went to see the horses, the sights, and to aston— ish his stomach with draughts of the saline and carbonized waters. Giles M. Hoyt, probably the oldest liv— ing hatter in the country and one of the pioneers of the batting industry in New England, died Thursday in Danbury, of pneumonia. He was 78 years old. Ladies were seen at the Greenwich Indian Harbor Hotel ball and fete, Sat- urday evening, enrobed with their winterj stalt‘xfiliih' Sacks, and they were none too' warm for the weather that evening, either. —The Merrill Business College, Stam- ford, will open for study September 3d. The president is at the College every day receiving visitors and enrolling students for the fall term. The prospect bespeaks a large opening. Partrick has a big all-summer contract for building moving at Port Chester. He has already moved several houses, and has many more to get out of the way of the Consolidated’s four track improve— ments at that point. , > It must be admitted by any one who sees the pictures in the National J ournal- ist, that the Connecticut delegates to the national editorial convention recently held in Boston, were among the best looking men in the entire gathering. Phil J. Cafirey. a printer, who when in the Gamma composing rooms was known to our readers as “our English composi- tor,” and who is now employed in the, composing rooms of the New York" Week- 13:, visited friends in town this week. ' The Housatonic railroad’s second ex- cursion to Saratoga, which started on Monday morning, was as well patronized as the first. These excursions are to be regular and successful events and will add to the popularity of the road. About seventy-five survivors of the Twenty—sixth Connecticut gathered at the annual reunion of the regiment at Lyle’s Beach, Wednesday. The reunion of the Eighteenth was held Wednesday at Mystic Island. About ninety members of the association were present. Nellie Andrew came down from Dan- bury to Bell Island a few days ago, and caught a dog-fish measuring 3 feet 7 inches in length. She bought a collar for him, named him Fido, had him registered, led him up to , Danbury and is teaching-him to bark at the Salvation Army. -—Special sale of Black Silks at” the Boston Store. Surah at 490., 720., 890. per yard. Gro. Grain, 690., 750., 850., 1980., $1.09, $1.50 per yard. Faille Fran- caise, 750., 980., $1.25 per yard. Satin Rademirs, 956., $1.25, $1.50 per yard. See window display. The Century’s series on the “Good Hunt- ers of California,” with articles by Gener- al Fremont and others, is to begin in the November number. Apreliminary article, “How California came into the Union,” will be published in September, as in that month. occurs the fortieth anniversary of the admission of California. Local items are very scarce. Will some one please break his leg ?-—-Thomasfon Empress; ' , . With pleasure. Send him over here, Brother James, and we’ll break his leg, 0r 'brea/khis neck, or break his collar-bone if you sayso. Who is he, anyway? and what has he been. up to ? An Enterprising Republican Journal, especially devoted to Local News and Interests. N ORWALK,- CONN., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1890. Copies of the premium list of the 26th annual fair of the Danbury Agricultural Society, which, by the way, is a fine job of printing and was gotten out by the Danbury News people, may be obtained at the Gazma office. Andrew Selleck, formerly of Norwalk, has brought suit against Laura A. Banks for $2,000 damages for-alleged breach of contract in the sale of certain property, on Clinton avenue, by F. J. ‘Banks, her conservator.—Bridgeport Leader. The hearing on the proposed improve- ments on Wall street, near the bridge, began in Lawyer Hurlbutt’s office Monday forenoon and was adjourned till Friday. The parties interested are unable as, yet ‘9, come to a mutual agreement“ in the matter of benefits and damages. New Canaan Messenger—Rev. Mr. Hopkins pronounced, on Wednesday, the. binding words that made Mr. C R. Stiles, of East Bloomfield, N. J ., and Mrs. Ha'r-' riet B. Clark, of Norwalk, man and wife. The ceremony took place in Norwalk, at the residence of Mr. J. H. Platt.‘ It is gratifying to read in the same par- agraph that bewails the scarcity of peaches, the welcome news that potatoes will be plenty. If you can’t get peaches, eat potatoes. “We’re all out of molasses,” said the fresh young clerk, to a customer, “but we've got some excellent tar.” Louis Verlin reports a remarkable har- vest of everything on his Castlecoote farm. He says he has cut hay enough to feed all his stock for a year, and will have 150 tons to sell besides. He also reports the recent birth at his home, of the brightest boy baby ever born in the town of Wilton. H, T. Backus and wife have returned from their wedding trip,taken on a tandem bicycle, and express themselves much delighted with the novel change from the regulationweddingexeursion.—Palladium. From which we are to infer that they had become tired of taking wedding tours l in the old-fashioned way. Roll call reported at Niantic on Monday, Fri-st regiment 546 present, 59 absent; Second regiment 670 present,46itbsent; Third regiment 526 present, 39 absent; Fourth regiment 548 present, 33 absent; First Separate company 58 present, 4 absent; :Second ”separate company, 47 present, 10 absent. ' - The selectmen of the town of Wilton have given the Duplex Supply Co., of Norwalk, an order for signs for all of the post roads of the town, eighty in number, in accordance with the statute law. In placing the order where they do, the se- lectmen show superior judgment, as the signs never vicar out. F. Gordon Mead, the promising young actor, started yesterday for Philadelphia to join the company in which he will take a leading part the coming season. The play is “The Irish Corporal,” which will be rehearsed for a couple of weeks before taking the road, at the Chestnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia. _ Another sign of the revival of the ship- yards iu the state will be the launching of a handsome new schooner at the West Haven yards in about a fortnight. It is a “four-sticker,” and is the largest boat ever made in the state. The next schooner to be built will be a five-master, and is to excel this one by 12 feet in length. Judge Selleck is sending over to Strat- ford, four—horse team loads of timber, furniture, etc., which enter into the improvements he is making in his newly purchased property, the Allen place, where he has a small army of workmen busily engaged in getting' the place into shape for the occupancy of himself and family. Burgess Couch, chairman of the com- mittee on harbor lines, has an advertise- ment in another column announcing that the committee will be in session at the Burgess rooms, on Tuesday next, to hear suggestions from anybody interested in the matters pertaining to the establish- ment of the harbor line. . Kate Field is an occasional visitor at Norwalk, but it cannot be that during any of her visits here she gathered, by obser- vation, the ideas that inspired this para- graph which appeared in her Washington last week ,-—- , Man is doubtless the noblest work of God; but when he gets one of these Little Lord Fauntleroy sashes half a yard wide allliout his waist one is apt to lose sight of t is. —Carriages and harnesses of every de- scription, trunks, traveling bags, etc., at reduced rates, at W. E. Dunn’s, No. 50 'Wall street. A th7 . “A Successful Man” is the title of what is probably the brightest American Stery— typically American—which has appeared for many years. It is a story of life prom- ment in fashion and in politics, written by a member of New York’s highest society who displays a genius as a writer destined to make her name famous—although she substitutes a nom de plume for, her dwn well known one. “A Successful Man” - will a; pear in two parts in the Cosmopoli- tan azr'ne—the first in the September issue-L-and is illustrated by Harry Mo? Vickaf, the .drawings being made from life from acting models who were guests and servants at a Long Islond country ouse. ’ \ ' It was the universal opinion of the spectators that the finest appearing body of 'men in the Knights of Columbus parade, at Stamford, last Thursday, went from Norwalk. There were nearly a hundred in the Norwalk council, each wearing a gray helmet and linen duster and“ carrying a cane. Heine’s band ac- companied them. The annual reunion of the veterans of the Seventeenth Conn. Vols., the old Fairfleld county regiment, will take place to—morrow, (Thursday), 28th, at Rotcn Point. Ashore dinner at a moderate cost to each member of the Seventeenth Regt. Association and its friends has been ar— ranged for, and a day of unalloyed pleas- ure is justly anticipated. The Bridgeport weekly Sun has struck quitep. boom. It has inaugurated a news- boys. selling contest with prizes worth $100'and is about to move into new and enlarged quarters on Middle street. W. H. May has retired and the well known writer, A. W. French has been secured as editor. The paper proposes to shine like its namesake on a July day. Dr. William Augustus Bronson, a life member of the New England Society and founder of the Odontological Society, died at his home, No. 8 East Thirty-fourth street, New York, last Thursday. He was swell known in the professional world. He was born in Connecticut June 14, 1817, and graduated at Yale 'in 1814. His re- mains were taken to New Haven for interment. There are four important elections in September, but little interest is expressed, as the result of only one is in doubt. Maine and Vermont choose state officers and congressmen, and will surely go republican. Wyoming will begin as a state by repeating the republican major— ities formerly given to a congressional delegate. Arkansas alone offers field for speculation. The thief who stole Charles Waterbury’s gold watch from his vest pocket at Ray— mond & Comstock’s factory, last Saturday, .xwas apprehended in Bridgeport, on Mon— day. His name was Wm. Darragan, hail- ing from _ Danbury, and he had disposed of Sthewhtch, valued at $150, to a South ' Norwalk jeweler for $20. He was bound over in the sum of $300 for trial before the Superior court. Mr. William Hancock, formerly super- intendent of the Norwalk mills, at Winni- pauk, died in Trenton, N. J., last week Monday. His funeral was held Thursday. He left Norwalk several years ago to accept the superintendency of the S. K. Wilson woollen mills, in Trenton, one of the largest manufacturers of shoddy cloth in the United States, and held that position at the time of his death. The Record says New Canaan is a nice place to visit. That is true and New Can- aan could give old Canaan of sacred his- tory, points, and then sail far ahead of her. For not only is our umbrageous and sprightly neighbor truly a land that flows with-milk and honey, but its Rock Spring Dairy, puts out a daily yield of gilt edge butter that would make one of those old J udea natives green with envy. The Noroton correspondent of the Advo- cate says: “Captain Webb. of Fitch’s Home, and Captain Caleb Wood. of Nor- walk, will have quite a diversified experi- ence this week. Capt. Wood’s sailing boat will take a small party to the en- campment at Niantic, and after remaining there a day or two, the party will go over to the Long Island shore, about opposite New London, and tackle the bluefish which are said to be very plenty there.” Dr. W. H. Baldwin, the dentist, makes the announcement in another column that he is now permanently located in the Bishop building, 64 Wall street, where he is prepared to carry on the dentistry busi- ness in all its btanches. His new quarters are handsomely fitted up and are in point of location, equipment and facilities, second to none in this region. It will amply pay any of our readers in need of any work in his line, to call and see him. —Carriages, carts and wagons of all de- scriptions and at reduced prices at W. E Dann’s, 50 Wall street. th7 The New Canaan Messenger says: the Connecticut Farmer, in an editorial under date of August 16, urges the farmers of this state to choose a farmer for their governor for 1892, and among other well known men in this commonwealth men'- tions the name of Edwin Hoyt, of this town. We heartily second the nomination of the gentleman,'and guarantee that this county and town would give him a rous- ing good majority. The races at the Fair Grounds last week were in every way successful, the attend- ance being large and the trotting good. There was perhaps more than the usual amount of ~ crooked business, for which the management was in no wise respon- sible, andfivhich was suppressed as fast as it, shov'ved itself. The suspension, fine and expulsion of the Birmingham horse owner and driver, who were so palpably crooked as to disgust the entire assem- blage, met with universal approbation. ,. There wasa grand illumination and ball at the Indian Harbor Hotel, Greenwich, Saturday evening. The bay was full of yachts and smaller craft gaily decked with colored lights and lanterns, while from many of them showers of rockets and colored fires of all sorts were shot up into the chilly sky, while a thousand guests crowded the hotel. “ Two of our handsomest and most prom- inent citizens, accompanied by their wives, left town Monday morning for a few days stay in presumably more congenial climes. Gen. and Mrs. Charles Olmstead started for Bethlehem, New Hampshire, that Paradise of hay fever sufferers as well as .of those who are free from that disagree- able affliction. Ex-Mayor C. B. Coolidge and Mrs. Coolidge started at about the . same time for Saratoga for a brief stay. It must have been “a pretty sight” for those who saw Paymaster Ed. Crowe in the act of seeing the pretty sight afforded by the men who stood at each guy rope of the tents at Niantir‘ and gave a pull when the signal gun was fired, and thus dropped all the tents . at once, on Saturday forenoon last, when, as a matter of fact, the tents were 'not dropped until 24 hours after Ed.’s graphic description of the “pretty sight” was printed. The boat race between Capt. Charles Brotherton’s skip—jack, “Hattie,” and Hines’ boat “Wombat,” was won by the Hattie, by one minute and ten seconds. It was witnessed by a large number of people in a formidable fleet of boats. The purse was $50, besides which Land- lord Powers, of the Dorlon House, is to present to Captain Brotherton a ten-foot pennant containing the word “Champion.” Charlie Reiley, who sailed the Wombat, has challenged Brotherton for a second race, which will take place in a couple of weeks. On Thursday morning, by invitation of Mr. C. T. Leonard, a number of gentle- men accompanicd him to St. John avenue to inspect a section of water pipe just laid there. The pipe is of rolled steel, lined on either side with aSphalt which is re- enforced on the inside with a thick layer of cement. The great feature of the pipe is the joints, which are drawn together with iron collars over a tight fitting flange of soft lead by a pressure that squeezes the lead to conform perfectly to the pipe and makes, Mr. Leonard claims, an abso- lutely tight joint. The very newest thing about town is the “Bombay oyster.” The “Bombay oyster” isn’t an oyster at all, of course, but this is the name that has been bestow- ed on it. It is a composition sufiiciently simple and common to please the lean and larded purse alike. It is nothing more than an egg dropped unbroken into a tumbler and deluged with vinegar, and sprinkled with pepper and salt. It is con- sumed always before breakfast and by a great many sporting men in the city. One of its effects is to counteract the evil ten- dencies of over-drinking andoveneating. Some stout men like a “Bombay oyster” in the morning and eat nothing again until noon. For a bilious stomach it is the finest kind of a remedy—Boston Globe. “Personal Mention,” (after the style of some of our brilliant reporters.)-Nick Martin has removed the rag from his sore finger.—Senator Hill cut his cams on Sunday.—Joe Dodge ate fish for dinner on Friday.—Oflicer Gormley wears a 7% bah—Hen. Cornell went fishing last week. —Jack Meyers ate a banana with a worm in it the other day.——Judge Austin’s red sash goes twice around him.—Mayor Lee’s moustache is bleaching cut—Judge Sel- leck’s Venus is Judge Selleck’s Venus.— J. M. Ellendorf, of South Norwalk, spent a half hour in the borough a couple of weeks ago.—Sheriff Toner ate a clambake at Mr. Dorlon’s celebrated Point Monday evening—R. M. Rose has had his hair eut.—Mrs. Fawcett’s husband is getting thin—George H. Raymond buried a dead man a few days ago.—J. Spencer is clean- ing Brad Keith’s watch.--O. E. Wilson, of Arch street, is frequently seen on Wall street. That. standard old American drama, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, will be presented in the Opera House on Friday evening, in all the completeness of the modern rendition, and'will, without doubt, attract a full house, as it always does. 0f its recent production by the Peck 85 Fursman com- pany. in Utica, the Daily Press of that city said :— ‘ A large audience witnessed Peck 85 Fursman’s Mammoth Uncle Tom’s Cabin Co. at the Utica Opera House last night. The .gallery was not large enough to hold all the people who wanted to see Uncle Tom’s Cabin last evening. The house wasalarge one. The stage held all the advertised attractions,.including the two Topsys, the two lawyers, the donkey, the bloodhounds and the pony, besides the jubilee singers. To judge the merit of the performance by the appreciation of the listeners, it was a great success. The members of the company were good and' displayed great dramatic ability. Little Eva was especially bright and pretty, and was encored on her songs. -It is useless to wonder why this old and worn ,out piece can continue to draw. The pros- pect is that it Will be years before the publicis relieved. If we must have Uncle, Tom, this company is more desirable than most of them. __ . A Useful Present in every package Savena: thezbest Washing-Powder. Sold by grocers \ Two DOLLARS A YEAR NUMBER 35. Chas. O. C. Betta and Groceryman Holmes, of Main street, have commenced again to talk about going to Saratoga. If winter doesn’t set in too soon they may get off this time. You see it is this way: The jolly and rotund Boniface who runs the Waverley Hotel at the springs, always makes a deduction from his highest mid- summer rates to Betts, on account of his religious example, and our friend Holmes, being of afrugal and thrifty turn, isn‘t slow to “catch on” to the pecuniary ad— vantage of :traveling and tavermng with Betts. . Springfield Republican:——Samples of those pearl-gray postal cards to be devot- ed to the use of women,and one size smaller than men’s, have been forwarded frOm Birmingham, Ct , to Postmaster- General Wanamaker for his approval. It is also announced that the postmaster- general is deeply absorbed in devising some means of escaping the incongruity of the new red postage stamp when placed on mourning envelopes by the issue of a special stamp for the use of the aggrieved. All goes to show that the long mercantile experience of the head of the post office department, especially in the consideration of the smallest needs of women, has been. of high value to the administration. Who, in the face of these things, could say that woman is denied a place it the affairs of state ? Mrs. Sarah Tompkins, relict of the late Charles H. Smith, died at the home of her son—in—‘law, Fred A. Taylor, on Orchard street, on Thursday last, at the age of 62 years and 5 months. . She was a devout Christian lady, and was for many years a member of the Congregational church. The latter days of her life were darkened by the death of a son and husband, both of whom were taken from her within a month. Since her husband’s death she had made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Taylor, whose filial devotion and afiectionate solicitude did much to bright- en the gloom that enshrouded the aged and afflicted mother’s last days. Mrs. Smith’s funeral was attended on Saturday afternoon from Mr. Taylor’s residence. Ellen Selleck was, for a short time pre- vious to last Tuesday, themhiet cook in \Un01e Jorn Collins’ American House restaurant. She was a good cook; her puddings were poems, her scrambled eggs were frothy, fluffy and baseless as the fabric of a vision, and her hash was like adream—but she would look upon the 'wine when it was red, white and blue, and when under its hilarious influence she was an altered man. On Tuesday she had one of her periodical. attacks of ma— laria and partook liberally of her ever- ready remedy, whiskey and quinine with the quinine left out. The deplorable re— sult was that she suddenly became the victim of a delusion that the kitchen was hers with all that it contained, and she forthwith proceeded to take forcible pos— session regardless of the protest of Uncle John and his staff of lieutenants. It was finally necessary to call in an officer in order to subdue the pugnacious Ellen and it required the combined and united ef— forts of Chief Buttery to convince her that she was a prisoner. She was taken before Judge Austin, to whom she confessed guilt, prOfessed penitence and paid $6.36 'to cover the costs of the trouble she had made the authorities, the fine of $3.00 having been remitted by the court on con- dition of Ellen leaving town at once asa guaranty of good faith. There is a new cook at Uncle John’s now. Many years ago, Major Newson, who sailed on Saturday for his Consular post at Malaga, Spain, wrote a series of vividly entertaining magazine articles, detailing his own personal experiences among the wild Indian tribes inhabiting his newly adopted state of Minnesota. Later these articles were collected and published in book form, and the thrilling narratives have been the intense delight of every school boy within whosehands acopy has chanced to come. At the editorial home there is spending his vacation a ten year old “chip of the old block” of the second generation, who had devoured these-thrill- ing adventures over and over again. with all the avidity of youth’s intensity of imagination, and when he was told that Major Newson, the author of these be- witching and blood curdling tales, was to be a guest of his grandparents for the day, the lad’s curiosity and expectations were at their intensest height. At length when the Major finally arrived, and the little fellow saw him lift his hat in a polite bow to his old friends and entertainers, the boy exclaimed to his mother, with intense enthusiasm, “Yes, that’s him—he’s the Indian fellow—don’t you see he’s been scalped ?” It is only necessary to add that the Major not only carries about one hundred and ninety pounds brain pressure to the square inch of skull, but he has one of those high, intellectual foreheads- that extends from the base of the noSe to the nape of the neck, with never a hair to mar its shining surface. The roar of laughter that went up after the boy’s diagnosis of the famous author, made the wclkin ring and no one enjoyed the joke or was made more hilarious by it than our old friend Newson himself. ._.. -w-~..- -punumm
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