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He is a member of the Harvard Clubs of Boston and New York, the University Club, the Exchange Club, the Charles River Country Club, and the Te- desco Country Club.
Mr. Everts married Miss Fannie Foster Tower and they have a daughter, Carolyn, and two sons, Albert P. Everts, Jr. and Nelson Tower Everts.
The family home is on Kirkstall Road, Newtonville.
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CHARLES HENRY PETERSON, for many years a well known resident of Newton, was born in Duxbury, Mass., July 31, 1869, and was the son of Martin and Adeline Childs Peterson.
He was eduated in the public schools of Newton and then entered the retail shoe business. In 1903 he es- tablished the firm of Jones, Peterson and Newhall, re- tailers of women's fine shoes, at 49-51 Temple Place, Boston, and was president of that corporation until his death in May, 1928.
He was a member of Fraternity Lodge of Masons and of the Reciprocity Club of Boston.
Mr. Peterson married Miss Emma F. Cooper of Worcester, and the family consisted of two sons and one daughter, Eldred M. Peterson, E. Kenneth Peter- son, and Muriel, wife of Elliott R. Barker, Jr.
Mr. Peterson was well known in Newton on account of his activity in the Newton M. E. Church and through his contacts in business. He was also deeply interested in the affairs of his birthplace, Duxbury, where he spent his summers. He gave freely of his time to various civic, religious and philanthropic causes, but steadily refused to accept any office.
His two sons continue the business which he es- tablished.
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BENJAMIN STEARNS HINCKLEY was born in Charlestown, Mass., November 18, 1875, and is the son of Benjamin and Ellen Stearns Hinckley. He was edu- cated in the public schools of Woburn, Mass., and graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, mechanical engineering, in the class of 1899.
He was located in the west for six years, with the Northern Pacific Railroad, until 1906, when he took the position of Engineer of Tests with the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. In 1911 he was appointed Purchasing Agent of the Boston and Maine Railroad, which position he resigned to enter business.
Mr. Hinckley is the head of the Hinckley Coal Com- pany of Boston, wholesale dealers of coal in carload and cargo lots and during the late war had charge of the distribution of coal for New England at Wash- ington, under the Fuel Administration.
He served as an alderman of Newton during 1925- 26 and 27. has been chairman of the Prudential Com- mittee of Eliot Church, president of the Rexhame Country Club, and is a member of the Eight O'clock Club of Newton.
He married Miss Helen Williams of St. Paul, Minn .. and they have had two daughters, Mary Loring Hinck- lev, who died August 10, 1921, and Flora Spencer Hinckley, born December 2, 1906.
He resides at 177 Park Street. Newton.
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FRED ALBERT ORDWAY, vice president of the well known firm of Henley-Kimball Co. of Boston, auto- mobile distributors, was born at Derry, N. H., Feb. 14, 1887 and is a son of Willis and Flora C. Ordway. He was educated in the schools of his native town and at a Commercial College.
Besides his interest in the Henley-Kimball Co., Mr. Ordway is connected with the J. S. Harrington, Inc., of Springfield, the Harrington-Hudson Co., of Hart- ford, Conn., and the Lawrence Land Development Co., of St. Petersburg, Fla.
He is a member of the Engineers Club, Boston Chamber of Commerce, the Commonwealth Country Club and the Newton Chamber of Commerce.
He married Mrs. Mary Blakeslee Emerson and resides on Algonquin Road. Chestnut Hill.
J. JOSEPH HENNESSEY, JR., a resident of Vista avenue, Auburndale, was born in Boston, January 23, 1876. the son of Jeremiah J. and Annie C. Hennessey. He was educated in the Rice school and the Mechanics Art High School of Boston and is a successful, self- made man.
He has built up a business as a brass goods manufacturer by untiring patience. He has invented many mechanical devices and has designed candle sticks, knockers and hinges so distinctive as to give him a high place in the world of craftsmanship.
He is a member of the Newton Catholic Club, the Boston Catholic Union. the New England Hardware Dealers Association, the Auburndale Club, The Reci- procity Club of America. the Newton Lodge of Elks and Scituate Beach Association.
He married Miss Alice Newcomb of Kingston, Mass. They have a family of one son and three daughters.
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FRANK PALMER SPEARE, IL. B., M. H., founder and president of Northeastern University of Boston, was born in Dorchester, Mass., in 1869, and is the son of Charles and Jeanette Palmer Speare. He was edu- cated in the public schools of Boston, Chauncey Hall, Bridgewater Normal School and Harvard College.
During the War the President placed Northeastern University on a military basis and established the S. A. T. C., and trained large numbers of men for overseas service.
President Speare is a member of the Boston City Club, Square and Compass Club, Charles River Coun- try Club, Harvard Teachers' Association, National Educational Association, Boston School Masters' Club, Bald Peak County ( New Hampshire ) Club, University Club, The Neighbors ( Newton Centre ), and St. John's Lodge of Masons.
He married Katherine V. Speare and they have one daughter. Marjorie V. Speare. The family resides at 121 Intervale Road, Newton Centre.
LELAND POWERS, who is a member of the firm of Powers & Hall, attorneys-at-law, with offices at 30 Federal Street, Boston, was born in Newton on July 1, 1890, the son of Samuel L. and Eva Crowell Powers.
He was educated in the Newton Public Schools and Middlesex School, graduated from Dartmouth College with an A. B. degree in 1910 and an A. M. degree in 1911 and from the Harvard Law School with an LL.B. degree in 1914.
From 1918 to 1919, Mr. Powers served as a Rep- resentative from Newton in the Massachusetts Gen- eral Court, and from 1919 to 1920 was Assistant At- torney General of Massachusetts.
He is a member of the Exchange Club, Algonquin Club, Engineers Club and the Chestnut Hill Golf Club.
On December 20, 1913, he married Barsheba C. Threewit of Denver, Colorado, and they have one son and two daughters. The family residence is at 134 Chestnut Hill Road, Chestnut Hill.
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SANFORD ELEAZER THOMPSON, a well-known con- sulting engineer and president of The Thompson and Lichtner Company, Inc., of Boston, New York and Chicago, engineers, in management, research and con- struction, was born in Ogdensburg, New York, Febru- ary 13, 1867, and is the son of Eleazer and Harriet N. Sanford Thompson.
He was educated in the Medway High School, the Adelphi Academy of Brooklyn, N. Y., and the Mas- sachusetts Institute of Technology.
Mr. Thompson was a member of the Hoover Com- mittee on Elimination of Waste in Industry, 1922; a member of the President's Unemployment Conference, 1923; a member of the Highway Committee, Boston Chamber of Commerce. 1929; vice-chairman and mem- ber of the Professional Research Consultants of New England Council.
He is also a member of many organizations, includ- ing the American Society of Civil Engineers; American Society of Mechanical Engineers; American Society for Testing Materials; past director of the Boston So- ciety of Civil Engineers ; past vice-president, American
Concrete Institute ; American Management Associa- tion; Fellow and Past Vice-President, Institute of Management ; past director, Taylor Society; Brae Burn Country Club; and University Club.
During the War Mr. Thompson was Lieutenant Colonel in the Ordnance Department, United States Army, serving as chief of Progress Section, Adminis- tration Division, until his discharge in December, 1918.
His professional practice, in addition to service to clients in this country and abroad, has included special researches and reports for the New England Council. Boston Chamber of Commerce, U. S. Coal Commission, American Engineering Council, and others. He is also the author of various technical papers and articles on management and construction engineering and is a joint author with Frederick W. Taylor on Concrete, Plain and Reinforced, and Concrete Costs.
Mr. Thompson married Miss Stella A. Converse and there are two surviving children, Mrs. Marion S. Beckwith and Dorothy D. Thompson.
The family home is at 1090 Walnut Street, Newton Highlands.
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TRAVERS DENTON CARMAN was born in River Edge, New Jersey, on September 22, 1879, and was the son of Elbert S. Carman. For the thirty years prior to his death in 1899, he was publishing owner of the Rural New Yorker, one of the foremost horticultural week- lies. His mother, Mrs. E. S. Carman, has for many years been a resident of Sharon, Massachusetts.
Mr. Carman was educated at the Morse Preparatory School of New York City and graduated at Princeton University in the class of 1902. For twenty-one years he was on the staff of The Outlook Company of New York, publishers of The Outlook Magasine, and re- signed as the Advertising Director and a Director of this company in 1923 to come to New England and establish himself under the firm name of Carman-in- New-England at 194 Boylston Street, Boston, serving as Publisher's Representative for such well-known magazines as Judge, The Forum, Theatre Magasine. Motion Picture Magasine and Motion Picture Classic. He is also President of New England Public Rela- tions, Inc., of Boston, organized in 1928 to render a specialized form of publicity service.
He is a member of the Algonquin, University and Boston City Clubs, the Boston Chamber of Commerce, the Advertising Club of Boston, Manhattan Club of
New York, Sons of the American Revolution, Society of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America, and a member of the Council for Troop 3, Norumbega Council, Boy Scouts of America.
He married Miss Emma Wagner Taylor, grand- daughter of former Senator Webster Wagner of New York and has one son, Travers D. Carman, Jr., a junior at Harvard University. Mr. Carman resides at 28 Eliot Memorial Road, Newton, Massachusetts.
Mr. Carman was actively interested in military af- fairs since the outbreak of the War in 1917, when he was appointed Chairman of Draft Board No. 1 of Yonkers, New York. Although he was exempt from the draft himself, on account of age and marriage, he applied for admission to the Army and finally in October, 1918, after months of persistent effort, he qualified as a Captain in the Motor Transport Corps. He did not, however, receive his commission until January 7, 1919, as a Captain in the Quartermaster- Reserve of the U. S. Army. Captain Carman was pro- moted on June 20th, 1929, to the rank of Major in the Quartermaster-Reserve, U. S. Army. He is actively interested in the development of the Quartermaster- Reserve and in the welfare of disabled war veterans.
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CHARLES B. FLOYD, eastern manager of the Fred Rueping Leather Company, tanners of fine upper leathers, was born in Providence, Rhode Island, No- vember 27, 1884, and was educated in the public schools of Brookline, Mass.
Mr. Floyd has always taken a deep interest in public affairs and was elected a member of the board of alder- men of Newton in the fall of 1928. He is also presi- dent of the Auburndale Community Club, and a di- rector of the Newton Y. M. C. A. and the Auburndale Co-operative Bank.
Mr. Floyd is an authority on bird life and is treas- urer of the Federation of Bird Clubs of New England, and a director in the Massachusetts Audubon Society.
During the administration of Governor Fuller, Mr. Floyd was appointed a trustee of Public Reservations. He also served as second lieutenant of the Newton Constabulary.
Mr. Floyd married Miss Marjorie N. Maloon of Beverly. Mass., and with one son resides on Wolcott Street, Auburndale.
DONALD M. HILL, a member of the legal firm of Blodgett, Jones, Burnham and Bingham, was born November I, 1877, in Brookline, Mass., the son of William H. and Sarah E. May Hill.
He was educated in the Berkeley School of Boston and graduated from Harvard University with the de- gree of A. B. in 1898 and LLB. in 1901.
Mr. Hill is a director in the Boston Insurance Com- pany. Old Colony Insurance Company, Laconia Car Company and the Banco-Commerciale Italiana Trust Company of Boston, and President of Fosters Wharf Company.
He is a member of the Brae Burn Country, Long- wood Cricket, Longwood Covered Courts, Harvard, University, Algonquin, Exchange and the Waban Neighborhood Clubs.
Mr. Hill married Miss Annie N. Turner and they have three sons, Donald M. Hill, Jr., Malcolm T. Ilill and Calvin Austin Hill.
They reside on Pine Ridge Road, Waban.
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ARTHUR L. LEWIS, President of the Lewis-Shepard Company, of Watertown and Boston, manufacturers of Materials Handling Equipment, was born in Laconia, New Hampshire, in 1885, and was educated in the local schools and at Dartmouth College, grad- uating with the class of 1908.
He is a member of the Charles River Country Club. The University Club, Dartmouth College Club of New York, Phi Gamma Delta Club of New York, the Watertown Rotary Club, Metropolitan Driving Club, and the Boston Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Lewis married Miss Eva Caroline Hilton, of San Antonio, New Mexico, and with a family of one son, Jack, and two daughters, Caroline and Virginia. resides on "Open Circle Farm" 432 Dedham Street. Newton Centre, and at their summer home "Roads End" at Dennis, Massachusetts, on the Cape.
FRANK H. STUART, one of the largest and most suc- cessful contractors in New England, was born in New- ton, November 19, 1868, and is the son of Timothy and Sarah M. Stuart. He was educated in the Newton schools and for many years has been engaged in engineering construction work under the name of T. Stuart's Sons' Company, of which he is presi- dent. Mr. Stuart is also a director in the Newton Trust Company, and president of the Newton Co- operative Bank.
In 1892 he married Miss Mary Isabel Teane and with a family of three sons and one daughter resided at 222 Pearl Street, Newton, for many years. He is building a beautiful home on Ward Street, at the cor- ner of Woodchester Road, Chestnut Hill.
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E. GORDON GOUDEY, president of the Goudey Gum Company, manufacturers of "Oh Boy Gum" was born in Barrington, Nova Scotia, October 9, 1863 and is the son of Edwin S. and Sophia H. Goudey.
Starting in business in Boston in 1918, Mr. Goudey purchased his present factory in Allston in May, 1924. Mr. Goudey is also interested in the Goudey Gum Company of Canada, Ltd., being president of this company.
He is a member of the Masons, the Elks, Boston Athletic Association, Square and Compass Club, the Canadian and the Kiwanis clubs.
He married Miss Florence Ross Goodwin and they have two daughters, Dorothy H. and Eileene G. Gou- dey and reside on Bristol Road and Commonwealth Avenue, West Newton.
HARRY J. FARRINGTON, of Vista Avenue, Auburn- dale, was born in Nantasket, July 31, 1875 and is the son of Alanson W. and Isabella F. Farrington. He was educated in the Coddington School of Quincy, the Mather School of Dorchester and the Boston English High School.
Mr. Farrington is engaged in business as treasurer and general manager of Farrington Co. of Jamaica Plain, the originators of steel form eye cases, jewelry boxes and specialty boxes of all kinds.
He married Miss Helen M. Dillingham and has a family of one son, Donald Hill, and one daughter, Lucia Elizabeth.
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JUDGE WILLIAM F. BACON was born in Newton, on November 27, 1863, the son of Joseph N. and Sarah A. ( Woodward) Bacon, one of the oldest families in the city. He was educated in the Newton schools and graduated from Harvard College in 1885 with the de- gree of A.B. and from the Harvard Law School in 1889 with degrees of LL.B. and A.M.
Judge Bacon was appointed justice of the Newton District Court in 1917. having previously served as an associate justice of that court since 1902. He was one of the District Court judges honored by appointment by Chief Justice Rugg of the Supreme Judicial Court as a member of the Appellate Division of the District Courts, and is one of the District Court judges ap- pointed by the Chief Justice of the Superior Court to hold sessions in the Superior Court from time to time.
Mr. Bacon is president of the Newton Savings Bank, president of the Newton Cemetery Corporation, and a director in the Newton Trust Company.
During the war Judge Bacon was chairman of the exemption board for the city of Newton. He also served at one time as a member of the board of health of the city.
He is a member of the Boston Bar Association, the Middlesex Club, the Hunnewell Club, Charles River Country Club, Eight O'Clock Club, Appalachian Mountain Club, the Megantic Club and the Phi Beta Kappa.
He married Miss Bessie E. Sayford and they have one son. Frederick Sayford Bacon, and one daughter, Margaret Bacon.
The family home is on Hyde avenue, Newton.
HARRY F. STIMPSON
JUDGE WILLIAM F. BACON
HARRY F. STIMPSON was born in Hopedale, Mass., February 20, 1873. and is the son of Edward S. and Isabelle A. ( Farnham) Stimpson. He was educated in the Hopedale schools and in the university of gen- eral experience, until he became president of three cor- porations, the Stimpson Investment Corporation, the Stimpson Terminal Co., and the Massachusetts Iron and Steel Co., which own storage warehouses and op- erate railroads serving the same. Mr. Stimpson is also interested in the Central Trust Co. of Cambridge, the Massachusetts Trust Co. of Boston, and as president until recently of the Wheelock, Lovejoy Co. of Cambridge.
He is a member and for some years was president of the Commonwealth Country Club, a member of the Brae Burn Country Club, the Charles River Country Club, the Country Club of Brookline, the Exchange, Algonquin clubs and the University clubs of Boston and the Wianno Club of Cape Cod.
During the war Mr. Stimpson was president and manager of the Wheelock, Lovejoy Co. who supplied millions of rifle barrel forgings to the United States and foreign governments and was the official headquar- ters for government steel supplied to government contractors.
Mr. Stimpson is a prominent member of the First Church of Christian Science of Newton. He married Miss Frances Maud Greenway and they have two sons and one daughter at their home on Hammond street, Chestnut Hill.
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VICTOR MACOMBER CUTTER
CHARLES W. RYDER was born in Richmond, Indiana, and was the son of William H. and Anna E. Ryder.
In business Mr. Ryder is treasurer of the firm of Ryder & Brown Co., dealers in wool; vice-president of Crimmins & Pierce Co., and is proprietor of the Ryder's Stock Farm in Lexington, raising hogs, cattle and apples.
He is a member of the Charles River Country Club. the Brae Burn Country Club and the Boston City Club. Mr. Ryder married Miss Minnie Malow Pickles and they have one daughter. Helen. The family home is on Walnut street, Newtonville. The summer home is at Lexington.
VICTOR MACOMBER CUTTER, president of the United Fruit Company of Boston and one of the leading busi- ness men of that city, was born in Dracut. Mass .. September 2. 1881, and is the son of Charles H. Cutter and Annie Macomber Cutter. He was educated at Lowell high school and at Dartmouth College. B.L .. 1903, and the Tuck School, M.C.S., 1904.
Besides his interest in the United Fruit Company. Mr. Cutter is a director in the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company.
He is a member of the Exchange Club and Commer- cial Club of Boston, the Whitehall and Tennis and Racquet Clubs of New York, the Club of Odd Vol- umes and the Woodland Golf Club.
During the war Mr. Cutter served on the Caribbean Committee Shipping Board.
He married Miss Florence deJongh, and they have two sons, Victor M. Cutter, Jr., and Donald Cutter. and one daughter. Thelma Cutter.
The family home is on Centre street, Newton.
CHARLES W. RYDER
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JOHN WILCOCK
HENRY A. WENTWORTH, who resides on Woodland road, Auburndale, was born in Boston, Mass., Febru- ary 22, 1884. He was educated in the Lynn Classical High School and graduated from Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology in 1905. He is engaged in busi- ness as a consulting mining engineer, is president of the WAD Syndicate and the Central Manitoba Mines, Limited, and vice-president of the American Zinc, Lead and Smelting Company and the Silver Dyke Min- ing Company. His offices are at 55 Congress street, Boston.
Mr. Wentworth is a member of the Boston City Club, a life member of the University Club (Boston), a member of the Engineers Club (New York), the Bankers Club of America (New York ), the Brae Burn Country Club (West Newton), the Mining and Metal- lurgical Society, the American Institute of Mining En- gineers, and the Canadian Institute of Mining Engi- neers.
In 1908 he married Miss Edith Z. Ellis, a graduate of Smith College (1906), and they have three children, Nathan, Vincent and Gordon.
JOHN WILCOCK, one of Boston's successful business men, was born at Pudsey, Yorks, England, May 11, 1874, and was educated in the schools of that place.
He is president and director of the Francis Willey & Co., Inc., wool merchants ; of the Barre Wool Combing Co., Ltd., wool combers ; of the Nornay Worsted Com- pany, worsted spinners; of The Canadian Wool Com- pany, Ltd., wool merchants, and was president of the Boston Wool Trade Association in 1925.
During the war, Mr. Wilcock was chairman of the Crossbred Wool Valuation Committee, chairman South American Wool Purchasing Syndicate, and Vice Presi- dent of the U. S. A. Wool Purchasing Committee in South America.
He is a member of the Brae Burn Country Club, Corinthian Yacht Club, Petersham Country Club, Bos- ton Chamber of Commerce, Victorian Club, British Charitable Society, Boston Press Club, Y. D. Club of Boston and the British Yacht Empire Club.
Mr. Wilcock married Miss Jane Booth and they have one son, Andrew Wilcock, and reside at "Boothroyd," Kent road, Waban.
HENRY A. WENTWORTH
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CLARENCE SEWARD LUITWIELER, one of the repre- sentatives to the General Court from Newton, was born June 16, 1861, in Rochester, N. Y., and was the son of James C. and Bertha A. Luitwieler. He was educated in the schools of York, Pa. He came to New England in 1880 and was associated with the National Needle Company of Springfield. In 1883 he came to Boston as the representative of the Needle Company, which later was merged with the Excelsior Needle Company and still later became the Torrington Co. In 1892 he went to England for the Torrington Com- pany, spending a year in London, where he opened an agency and started a factory for the manufacture of sewing machine needles in Coventry, England, and later one in Aix-la-chapelle, Germany. After 25 years with the Needles companies he became assistant gen- eral manager of the New Home Sewing Machine Com- pany at Orange, Mass., holding that position for two years. In 1906 he organized the American Stay Com- pany and purchased the wharf property on the water front of East Boston, where that company has been doing business ever since. Mr. Luitwieler is the treas- urer and general manager of the company. He is also treasurer of the Union Lock-Stitch Company and the Union Welting Company.
Mr. Luitwieler is a member of the Republican Club of Massachusetts, Middlesex Club, Boston City Club, Bostonian Society, Society for Preservation of New England Antiquities, Chamber of Commerce of the United States, Boston Chamber of Commerce, Newton Chamber of Commerce, and is president of the Newton South Co-operative Bank, one of the oldest trustees of the Newton Centre Savings Bank, and a member of the executive committee and assistant treasurer of the Associated Industries of Massachusetts.
CLARENCE SEWARD LUITWIELER
He has resided at Newton Highlands for thirty-five years and has always taken a deep interest in civic af- fairs, serving as a member of the school committee 1898 to 1902, as a member of the Republican City Committee, and is now serving his first term as a mem- ber of the General Court.
He married Miss Lucy B. Billings and they have two sons, Edward B. and Clarence S. Luitwieler, Jr., and one daughter, Miss Helen Luitwieler.
FRANK H. HOWES, son of Osborn and Abby (Crowell) Howes, was born in Boston in 1853 and moved with his family to Newton in 1887.
For more than a quarter of a century he has been connected with the City's educational institutions; for nine years a member of the School Committee, and for twenty-one years as one of the Free Library Trustees. Since 1907, Mr. Howes has served as president of the library board. He has also been a member of the Free Library Commission of the State of Massachusetts.
FRANK H. HOWES
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EDWARD P. BOSSON was born in Chelsea, Mass .. August 30, 1864, and was the son of William and Mary B. ( Hawkes ) Bosson.
He was educated in the schools of his native city and then entered business in Boston. He is now the head of the firm of Bosson & Lane, manufacturing chemi- cal specialties for the textile trade with a factory at Atlantic, Mass.
Mr. Bosson has served the city of Newton as an alderman for four years beginning with 1905. He is a director in the Newton Trust Company and a trustee of the Newton Centre Savings Bank.
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