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CIVIL SERVICE REFORM ASSOCIATION .- Jos. G. Eastland, President ; A. S. Hallidie, Horatio Steb. bins, D. D., E. G. Stetson, Robert Roy, John C. Hall, John Deane, H. S. Dickson, Wilfred Page and John H. Boalt, Vice-Presidents; Charles S. Page, F. B. Perkins, W. B. Harrington, Charles R. Allen, James S. Bunnell, Samuel B. Wiggin, Morris U. Bates, Charles A. Murdock, James Denman and A. B. Nye, Executive Committee; James S. Bunnell, Secretary and Treasurer ; F. I. Vassault, Assistant Secretary.
FIRE UNDERWRITERS' ASSOCIATION OF THE PACIFIC .- Organized February, 1876. Meets at rooms 401 California street. Object: Mutual improvement.
Officers .- E. W. Carpenter, President; Wm. Sexton, Vice-President; R. H. Naunton, Secretary and Treas- urer.
FIRST CREMATION SOCIETY .- Organized Octo- ber 18, 1881. Number of members, one hundred and thirty. Meets on the second Monday of each month, at 539 California street. The Society has ample funds. and only awaits favorable legislation for the building of & crematory.
Officers .- F. Schunemann-Pott, President ; Leopold Diamant, Vice-President; Max Levy, Recording Sec- retary ; Geo. E. Voelkel, Corresponding Secretary ; E. A. Denicke, Treasurer. Office of the Society, 331 Kearny street.
GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC .- Office, 411 Post street. Objects: To encourage Geo- graphical exploration and discovery ; to investigate and disseminate Geographical information by discus- sion, lectures and publications ; to establish in this, the chief city of the Pacific States, for the benefit of commerce, navigation and the industrial and material interests of the Pacific Slope, a place where the means will be afforded of obtaining accurate information, not only of the countries bordering on the Pacific Ocean, but of every part of the habitable globe : to accumulate a library of the best books on Geography, History and Statistics ; to make a collection of the most recent Maps and Charts-especially those which relate to the Pacific Coast, the Islands of the Pacific, and the Pacific Ocean ; and to enter into correspon- dence with scientific and learned societies whose ob- jects include or sympathize with Geography.
Officers .- George Davidson, President ; Ogden Hoff. man, John F. Swift and T. E. Slevin, Vice-Presi- dents: F. Lambertenghi, Foreign Secretary ; T. A. Lord, Home Corresponding Secretary; J. P. Cox, Treasurer ; C. Mitchell Grant, Secretary.
Meets first and third Tuesdays of each month, at Druids' Hall.
GOLDEN GATE RIFLE CLUB .- Organized Jan- uary 18, 1882. Meet on the first Friday of every month at the Louvre. Objecta: To skill the members thereof in the use of the rifle, and to cultivate and strengthen the bonds of friendship among them.
Officers .- J. A. Bauer. President; John A. Schmidt, Vice-President; Wm. Ehrenpfort, Treasurer; Orion Brooks, Secretary; W. H. Schneider, James Stanton,
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HASTINGS' DEBATING SOCIETY. - Organized September 1,1878. Number of members, about sev- enty. Meets in Pioneer Hall, 808 Montgomery street, every Thursday evening.
Officers .- W. Conley, President ; J. Pemberton, Vice-President ; J. O'Donnell, Secretary ; - Du- montier. Treasurer.
INVENTORS' INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA AND ORDER OF INVENTORS .- Incorporated 1885. Rooms, 105 Stockton street. The objecta of the Institute and Order are to unite all inventors in a mutual bond for the simplifying oi the patent laws, the providing of increased facilities for the obtaining of patents, and the maintenance of exhibition rooms for the disposal of patented inventiona.
Officera .- Thomas Tennent, President; Holland Smith, Treasurer; J. H. Sayre, Secretary ; A. B. Smith, Manager.
JERSEY CATTLE CLUB .- Pacific Coast Jersey Cattle Club meets at No. 5, Stock Exchange, Pine street. Number of members, eighty.
Officers .- John W. Coleman, President; Robert Beck, Secretary and Treasurer ; James M. McShafter, A. Milliard, R. G. Sneath, John W. Coleman, Robert Beck, Executive Committee.
LADIES' SILK CULTURE SOCIETY .- Incorporated 1885, and has for its object the promotion of silk culture in the State of California. Meetings are held on the first Tuesday of each month. Office of the Corresponding Secretary, 1001 Pine street.
Officers .- Mra. Theodore H. Hittell, President ; Mrs. Leonidas E. Pratt, Recording Secretary ; Mra. Samuel D. Mayer, Corresponding Secretary ; Mrs. Lewis Hentrich, Treasurer.
LIGUE NATIONALE FRANCAISE .- Organized Au- quat 4, 1871. Meets third Monday of each month, at 120 Sutter street. Objects: To promote friendship, harmony, and intelligence among the French resi- dents of California, and enable them to co-operate in enterprises of general importance.
Officers .- Daniel Levy, President; E. Raas, First Vice-President; H. Weill, Second Vice-President ; E. Meyer, Treasurer ; A. Goustiaux and L. Saclier, Secre- taries ; A. Masson, Librarian and Secretary.
The library belonging to the society contains about twelve thousand volumes, partly voluntary donations. Any person may have access to the reading room, being acceptable to the Board of Trustees and paying an initiatory fee of one dollar, and fifty cents monthly, due in advance. Open every day from twelve to six o'clock P.M., and from half-past seven to ten o'clock P. M., except Sundays and legal holidays.
MARINERS' FREE READING ROOM .- Northeast corner of Sacramento and Drumm streets. Estab- lished March 21, 1876, for the purpose of affording mariners visiting this port, and others, opportunity of reading the local, Eastern, and foreign newspapers, and periodicals, free of charge. The library contains eight hundred volumes.
Officers .- Henry Chester, President; Charles Ferris, Treasurer; W. D. Bishop, Secretary and Librarian.
MECHANICS' INSTITUTE .- Organized March 29, 1855. Location, 31 Poat street.
The objects of this institute arethe establishment of a library, reading room, collection of a cabinet, scientific apparatus, works of art, and other literary and scientific purposes. The society has a Reading Room well supplied with the leading scientific and literary periodicals of the day,and a valuable library containing thirty-three thousand volumes, including many rare scientific works. Any person may become a member, being acceptable to the Board of Trustees, by paying an initiation fee of one dollar, and one dol- lar and fifty cents quarterly dues in advance. The Institute also owns the magnificent " Mechanics' Pa- vilion," located on the southwest corner of Grove and Larkin streets, in which, under the auspices of the Institute, the Annual Industrial Expositions are held.
Officers .- P. B. Cornwall, President ; David Kerr, Vice-President ; J. A. Bauer, Treasurer ; W. P. Stout, Recording Secretary ; S. J. Hendy, Corresponding Sec- retary : J. H. Culver. Assistant Secretary ; Horace Wil- aon, Librarian; Arthur Jellison and Robert Caah, Assistant Librarians.
· MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION .- Organ- ized January 24, 1853. New Mercantile Library Build- ing, north side of Bush street, between Sansome and Montgomery.
The rooms of the association are commodious and well arranged. The library contains about fifty-two thousand volumes, and the reading rooms are amply aupplied with papers and magazines from the Eastern States and Europe. The terms of membership are three dollars per quarter in advance.
Officers .- David Wilder, President; M. H. Hecht, Vice-President ; Ed. B. Young, Recording Secretary ; Bert. McNulty, Corresponding Secretary ; Henry Molineux, Treasurer ; A. E. Whitaker, Librarian ; L. B. Wetherbee, Assistant Librarian : Edward J. Balley, Collector.
MILITARY LIBRARY. - Incorporated January 3, 1873, for the purpose of acquiring, preserving and con- ducting a public library, to consist chiefly of books, magazines and newspapers of a military character. There are twelve hundred and twenty-three volumes and two hundred mapa.
Officers .- W. H. Dimond, President ; W. R. Smed- berg, Treasurer ; David Wilder, Secretary and Libra- rian ; W. H. Dimond, W. R. Smedberg, Robert Tobin, G. W. Grannias, A. S. Hubbard, H. D. Ranlett, J. C. Robinson, H. P. Bush, Hana H. Kohler, Trustees. Office 328 Montgomery street, room 21
NATIONAL LINCOLN ASSOCIATION-CALIFOR. NIA DIVISION .- The purpose for which thia asso- ciation was formed is to perpetuate the memory of the martyr President, Abraham Lincoln, by annual celebrations of his birthday, to hold memorial ser- vicea on the anniversaries of his death, and do such other acta as.may be deemed expedient to preserve and cherish his memory and the principals of loyalty to country and freedom, for which he died, and also to cultivate social intercourse amongst its members. An annual meeting and service is held each year on February 12th, and memorial services on April 15th
Directors. - Washington Ayer, Columbus Water- house, Edwin A. Sherman, J. M. Buffington, J. L. Cogswell, Reginald H. Webster, Charles H. Wells.
NATIVE SONS OF THE GOLDEN WEST .- Or- ganized July 11, 1875. This Society is composed en- tirely of young men native to the State, and has for its object, aside from its social and beneficent character, the preservation of the traditions insepar- ably bound up in the pioneer history of the State. There are sixty parlors in the State.
A Grand Parlor was instituted in December, 1878, which will hereafter meet annually in April.
Officers .- John A. Steinbach, Past Grand Presi- dent; F. H. Greely, Grand President; Charles W. Decker, Grand Vice-President; J. H. Tibbits, Grand Treasurer; Henry Lunstedt, Grand Secretary ; J. Whitby, Grand Lecturer; Charles L. Weller, Grand Orator ; J. W. Julliard, Grand Marshal.
Two subordinate Parlors have been organized in San Francisco, viz :
CALIFORNIA PARLOR No. 1 .- Meets every Thursday evening in Red Men's Hall, 320 Post atreet. Number of members, two hundred.
PACIFIC PARLOR No. 10 .- Meets every Tuesday eve- ning in Alcazar Building, 114 O'Farrell street. Num- ber of members, one hundred and twenty-five.
GOLDEN GATE PARLOR, NO. 27 .- Meets every Mon- day in Alcazar Building, 114 O'Farrell street. Number of members, 130.
MISSION PARLOR, No. 38 .- Meets every Wednesday on Sixteenth street. Number of members, 170.
SAN FRANCISCO PARLOR, NO.49 .- Meets every Thura- day at Universal Hall, 812 Pacific street. Number of mombers, 125.
EL DORADO PARLOR, No. 52 .- Meets every Thursday at Hamilton Hall, corner of Geary and Steiner streets. Number of members, 60.
PATRIOTIC ORDER SONS OF AMERICA .- This Order was first organized in Philadelphia in 1847. In 1866 the Order was reorganized and placed upon a more substantial basis, and its membership now seek to locate a camp in every town in the United States. It has for its objects the inculcation of pure Ameri- can principles ; the opposition to foreign interference with State interests in the United States of America ;
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the cultivation of a fraternal and brotherly love ; the preservation of the Constitution of the United States. and the propagation of free education.
State Officers .- Robert Asb, Past President ;
-- , State President ; A. H. Lendrum, San Jose, State Vice-President; C. H. Haile, State M. of F. and C .: A. C. Reid, State Treasurer; Frank W. Oatman. State Secretary. Office, 543 Clay street.
There is a sick benefit fund for members, male and female. which pays $10, $15 and $20 per week.
STATE CAMP .- Was instituted December 15, 1880.
Number of Camps in the State ten.
Six Camps of the Order have been established in this city, viz. :
WASHINGTON CAMP, No. 1 .- Instituted October 7, 1877. Meets every Tuesday evening at Washington Hall, 35 Eddy street.
WASHINGTON CAMP, NO. 2 .- Instituted April 11, 1878. Meets every Monday at Washington Hall, 35 Eddy street.
WASHINGTON CAMP, NO. 4 .- Instituted May 30, 1879. Meets every Wednesday at Grand Pacific Hall, Market street.
WASHINGTON CAMP, NO. 7 .- Instituted December 18, 1879. Meets every Tuesday evening at 35 Eddy street.
WASHINGTON CAMP, NO. 12 .- Meets every Monday evening in Blair's Hall, Mission street.
WASHINGTON CAMP, NO. 14 .- Meets every Saturday evening at 32 O'Farrell street.
PEOPLE'S FREE LIBRARY, THE .- Organized 1879. Location north side of Bush street, between Kearny and Dupont streets.
This institution was provided for in the Act passed by the Legislature of 1877-8, authorizing the creation and maintenance of free libraries, and empowering the Supervisors to levy a tax of not exceeding one mill on the dollar for their support. The library was formally opened June 7, 1879, with about 6,162 volumes, (magazines and periodicals not in- cluded), together with a newspaper department. At this time there are 57,000 volumes in the Library, and new books are being added at the rate of about 1.000 per month, Between 25,000 and 28,000 are circulated each month. Number of mem- bers (persons entitled to use books at home), 14,000. The library is open for reading from 9 A. M. to 9 P. M.
Board of Trustees .- Thos. B. Bishop, John S. Ha- ger, J. MI. McDonald, George H. Rogers, E. D. Sawyer, Irving M. Scott, Louia Sloss, Chas. C. Terrill, Robt. J. Tobin, John H. Wise and the Mayor, ex-officio ; Secretary, Henry Marshall; Librarian, Fred. B. Perkins.
PHILHISTORIAN DEBATING SOCIETY .- Organ- ized October, 1863. Meets every Wednesday afternoon at St. Ignatius' College. It is composed of the high- est classes of the College, the graduates and under- graduates ; but it receives also as members, other educated young men who are not students of this Col- lege, provided they possess the required qualifica- tions. Their debating ball contains a choice library, for the use of the members.
Officers .- J. J. Cunningham, S. J., President; John S. Tobin, Vice-President ; Andrew Carrigan, Record- ing Secretary ; John Costigan, Treasurer ; John Roche, Librarian : Oscar Rouleau, Censor.
SAN FRANCISCO ART ASSOCIATION .- Organized March 28, 1871. Objects: The promotion of painting, sculpture, and fine arts akin thereto, the diffusion of a cultivated taste for art in the community at large, and the establishment of an academy or school of de- sign. Membership in this society, which has now about six hundred contributing, one hundred and fifty life, and nine honorary members, is open to all lovers of art. Regular members' meetings held on the fourth Tuesday of March, June, Septem- ber, and December, in the rooms of the society, 430 Pine street. Annual election of officers last Tuesday in March of each year.
Officers .- Geo. C. Perkins, President; F. Marion Wells and F. O. Layman, Vice-Presidents; R. P. Ashe, Secretary: J. R. Martin, Assistant Secretary ; George W. Granniss, Treasurer ; Geo. H. Hopps, Jas. D. Phelan and J. H. Boalt, Board of Directors.
The School of Design connected with the associa-
tion was organized December 31, 1873. The school has ninety pupils. Its affairs are inanaged by a committee of members of the Art Association. Virgil Williams, Director of School; W. E. Rollins, Assistant Director.
SAN FRANCISCO BAR ASSOCIATION. - Organ- ized April 20, 1872. Number of members, about two hundred. Objects: To maintain the honor and dignity of the profession of the law, to increase its usefulness in promoting the due administration of justice, and to cultivate social intercourse among its members. Rooms, 121 Post street. Number of mem- bers-active, one hundred and six ; non-resident, fity- three ; judiciary, twenty-one.
Officers .- W. W. Cope. President; T. T. Stoney and E. B. Mastick, Vice-Presidents; Thomas V. O'Brien, Secretary : W. Thomas, Corresponding Secretary; John M. Burnett, Treasurer.
SAN FRANCISCO LAW LIBRARY ASSOCIATION. -Organized 1865. Library contains about twenty- six thousand volumes. Rooms, New City Hall.
Officers-J. P. Hoge, President ; Joseph W. Winans, Treasurer : F. P. Deering, Secretary and Librarian.
SAN FRANCISCO MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY .- Organized April 5, 1872. Incorporated August 30, 1872. Number of active members, thirty. Meets second and fourth Wednesdays of each month at 120 Sutter street, room 21. Object: The study of micro- scopical science on the Pacific coast.
Officers .- S. M. Mouser, President ; E. J. Wickson, Vice-President ; A. H. Breckenfeld, Recording Secre- tary; Charles W. Banks, Corresponding Secretary ; Arthur M. Hickox, Treasurer.
SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA PIONEERS .- Organ- ized August, 1850. Rooms, 808 Montgomery street.
The expressed objects of the society are to collect and preserve information connected with the early settlement and subsequent conquest of the country, and to perpetuate the memory of those whose saga- city, energy and enterprise induced them to settle in the wilderness and become the founders of a new State. All who were in California prior to the first day of January, 1850, are eligible to membership. Any who have rendered distinguished or important services to the society or State, may be admitted as honorary members. The roll of the society embraces the names of over twenty-three hundred members. Regular meetings of the society take place on the first Monday of each month. Annual election of officers on the seventh day of July, the anniversary of the conquest of California, and of the raising of the American flag on its soil. Annual celebration on the ninth of September, the anniversary of the admission of California into the Union. The Society is pos- sessed of a library, an excellent cabinet of minerals, relics of early times, and various other objects of interest.
During the present year the Society expect to occupy their magnificent new building now in course of erection on Fourth, between Market and Mission streets. It is being built ont of the munificent be- quest to the Society made by the late James Lick.
Officers .- Louis Sloss, President ; John A. Bauer, San Francisco; Charles Clayton, San Francisco; Walter Van Dyke, Oakland ; P. O. Hundley, Oroville, and H. M. Nagle, San José, Vice-Presidents ; Howard Havens, Treasurer ; H. T. Graves, Secretary; E. B. Freeland, Marshal.
STATE BOARD OF HORTICULTURE .- Office. 40 California street, room 9.
Officers .- B. Elwood Cooper, Santa Barbara, Presi- dent ; A. H. Webb, Secretary ; M. G. Vallejo, Sonoma, Treasurer and Commissioner for Sonoma District; Dr. S. F. Charin, San José, Inspector of Fruit Pests ; H. C. Wilson, Red Bluff, Commissioner for Sacra- mento District ; G. N. Milco, Stockton, Commissioner for San Joaquin District ; N. R. Peck, Gold Run, Com- missioner for Nevada District; A. F. Coronel, Los Angeles, and Edwin Kimball, Haywards, Commis- sioners State at Large.
STATE BOARD OF SILK CULTURE .- Established by Act of the Legislature, March 15, 1883. Office, 40 California street, room 7. Meets on the last Thursday of each month, at 2 o'clock P. M.
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STATE BOARD OF VITICULTURE .- Iaaac De Turk, Santa Rosa; L. J. Rose, San Gabriel; George West, Stockton; George L. Blanchard, Placerville; Charles A. Wetmore, San Francisco ; Arpad Haraszthy, San Francisco ; Chas. Krug, St. Helena ; J. De Barth Shorb, San Gabriel, and R. P. Blowers, Woodland. Office, 204 Montgomery street, room ?.
Officers .- Arpad Haraszthy, President; Chas. A. Wetmore, Vice-President: John H. Wheeler, Secre- tary ; Chas. Krug, Treasurer.
STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY .- Officers .- R. Beverly Cole, San Francisco, President ; W. S. Thorne, San Jose, First Vice-President; W. T. Gibbons, Alameda, Second Vice-President; A. H. Agard, Oakland, Third Vice-President ; H. J. Crompton, Lakeport, Fourth Vice-President ; D. Powell, Marysville, First Assist- ant Secretary ; L. M. F. Wanzer, San Francisco, Sec- ond Assistant Secretary ; T. W. Hatch, Sacramento, Treasurer.
SOCIETY OF DECORATIVE ART. - Organized March, 1881. Meets first Friday in every month at 300 Stockton st. The objects of this society are the establishment of rooms for the exhibition and sale of woman's work ; the diffusion of a knowledge of de- corative art among women and their training in arti- sts' industries. To maintain a library of hand-books on subjects of Decorative Art and Design, for the use of members and pupils.
Officers .- Mrs. L. L. Baker, President; Mrs. C. Cushing and Mrs. Gerstle Vice-Presidents ; Mrs. M. Castle, Treasurer ; Mrs. McNntt, Recording Secretary ; Mrs. M. E. M. Dixon, Corresponding Secretary ; Miss A. W. Barry, Superintendent.
SWEDENBORG LIBRARY AND TRACT SOCIE- TY .- Incorporated April, 1881. Meets the second Wednesday of each month in the Library of the First New Jerusalem Church, 318 O'Farrell street. Ob- jects : To maintain a library and reading room of the works of Emanuel Swedenborg, and to disseminate books and tracts in harmony therewith.
Officers .- R. R. Provines, President; A. W. Man- ning, Vice-President; Benjamin Shellard, Treasurer ; John Doughty, Secretary; Dr. H. B. Wright, Benja- min Shellard, Eric Ekelund, A. W. Manning, John McCraith, George H. Sanders, E. R. Armington, John Doughty and R. R. Provines, Directors.
TECHNICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC COAST. -Organized April, 1884. Meets in the Society's rooms, Druid's Hall, 413 Sutter street, first Friday of each month. The rooms are open to members every Friday evening. Number of members, one hundred and nineteen. Objects : The advancement of the technical professions by means of the reading of papers and discussion of questions pertaining there- to, and the establishment of a central point of reference.
Secretary's address, 414 Clay street.
Officers .- Col. George H. Mendell, U. S. A., Presi- dent; George J. Specht, Vice-President; Charles G. Yale, Secretary ; John B. Crockett, Treasurer.
TERRITORIAL PIONEERS OF CALIFORNIA .- In- corporated November 10, 1874. Rooms, 838 Market street. The objects of this association are to form a more perfect union of the Pioneers of California in the bonds of friendship, and to cultivate social inter- course between them ; to collect and preserve histor- ical facts and information in connection with the early and subsequent history of the settlement of the Pa- cific Coast ; to form a library for the diffusion of use- ful knowledge among its members ; to form a cabinet of such minerals, geological, and other natural sub- stances as can be obtained by the association ; to pur- sue such literary and scientific objects, by means of lectures or otherwise, as shall be deemed expedient by the Board of Directors, and to perpetuate the mem- ory of those whose wisdom, valor, and enterprise ad- vanced civilization to the shores of the Pacific. All white males who were in California prior to the ninth day of September, 1850, and the male descendants of all such, of lawful age, are eligible to membership.
The library now contains upward of twenty-five hundred volumes, and the cabinet for mineralogical, geological, and other specimens of California produc- tion, is in a very flourishing condition. Board meets second Tuesday of each month.
Marcucci and J. W. Wesson, Vice-Presidents ; Low- ell J. Hardy, Jr., Secretary ; John W. McCormick, Treasurer ; W. W. Williston, Marahal.
UNITED BAR OF SAN FRANCISCO .- Organized March 8, 1879. Number of members, one hundred and fifty.
Officers .- A. C. Bradford, President ; J. G. Maguire, First Vice-President ; M. Cooney, Second Vice-Presi- dent; A. C. Searles, Secretary and Treasurer. Ad- dress, 623 Montgomery atreet.
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ASSOCIATED VETERANS OF THE MEXICAN WAR .- Organized July 2, 1866. Number of members, ninety-five. Meet second Thursday of each month, at the hall, 516 Bryant street.
Officers .- W. L. Duncan, President; Samuel Deal, Vice-President; L. B. Hopkins, Secretary ; M. Burk- hardt, Treasurer.
ARIEL ROWING CLUB .- Officers .- Charles Lipp, President ; A. Rabjohn, Vice-President ; William H. Growney, Secretary; John Muirhead, Treasurer; Walter Blake, Captain.
BOHEMIAN CLUB. - Incorporated April 9, 1872. -Number of members, five hundred. Business meetings held second Tuesday in January, April, July, and October. Literary and musical meetings last Saturday evening of each month, at the rooms, 430 Pine street. Objects : The promotion of social and intellectual intercourse between journalists and other writers, artists, actors, and musicians, profes- sional and amateur.
Officers .- Stuart M. Taylor, President ; Joseph D. Redding, Vice-President; Samuel Osbourne, Treas- urer ; Horace G. Platt, Secretary ; Joseph N. H. Irwin, George W. Spencer, Henry C. Dibble, Peter Robert- son and Andrew J. Moulder, Directors.
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