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Colonel Cormerais is treasurer and manager of the Allston Storage Warehouse, Inc., and located at 138 Harvard avenue, Allston.
He is a member of Norumbega Lodge, A. F. and A. M., a thirty-second degree Mason, a member of the Boston City Club, Sons of the Revolution, American Legion, Military Order of the World War. Military Order of the Foreign Wars. Army & Navy Club of Boston, Newton Lodge B. P. O. E., Sojourners' Club. and as a past commander of the Ancient and Honor- able Artillery Company of Boston, 1924-1925.
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GEORGE MCNEIL ANGIER, who had deservedly won the affectionate title of "Newton's most useful citizen" was born in Kansas City, Mo., October 18, 1867 and died in Boston, February 1, 1926. He was the son of Albert E. and Emma Frances Angier, and was educa- ted in the West where he attended the University of Michigan.
Active in business and political circles, it was in philantropic work that he took the deepest interest. He was chairman of the Newton Branch of the Red Cross, a director of the Newton Welfare Bureau and a past president of the Newton Central Council.
During the war he volunteered his serivces to the Production and Supply Department of the New England Division of the Red Cross and planned the layout of the equipment with rare tact and judgment.
In business affairs he was president of the Angier Chemical Co, of Allston, managing director of the Angier Chemical Co., Ltd. of London, England, manu- facturers of proprietary medicines, president of the Carton Corporation, a director in the Newton Trust Co. and a trustee of the Newton Centre Savings Bank.
His political activities included service as a member of the board of aldermen for four years from 1916, and as a member of the school committee for five years, of which he was chairman for two years. During his chairmanship of the school committee he brought about a much needed unification of the High Schools.
He was a member of the Harvard, Boston City, Beverly yacht, Kittanset, Brae Burn Country, Waban Neighborhood, Clubs, the Boston and Newton Cham- bers of Commerce, Dalhousie Lodge of Masons, Claf- lin Guard Veterans Association, and the Sigma Chi Fraternity.
Mr. Angier's son, Albert Edgar Angier was 1st Lieutenant in the 308th Infantry, 77th Division, and was killed in action at Revillon, France on September 14, 1918.
Mr. Angier's home was on Pine Ridge Road, Waban.
C. P. ROCKWELL was President and Treasurer of C. P. Rockwell, Inc., of 640 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, distributors of motor cars, from its establish- ment in December, 1913, until his death on August 1, 1928.
Mr. Rockwell was born in South Windsor, Con- necticut, on August 17, 1874, the son of Carlos Edward and Ella Nieda Prior Rockwell.
He received his education in the public schools. He was a member of the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower descendants.
He married Miss Amelia L'Hommedieu Silliman
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FRANK M. FORBUSH, a well-known member of the Massachusetts Bar, was born in Natick, Mass .. Sep- tember 20, 1858, and was the son of James E. and Elizabeth W. Goddard Forbush. He was educated in the English Law School of Boston, class of 1875, and the Boston University Law School, class of 1883. He has been in active practice in Boston since his admis- sion to the bar. September 13, 1882, having done his three years' work in one year and passed his bar examination.
During the War Mr. Forbush was a member of the Newton Legal Advisory Board.
Mr. Forbush has been active in the affairs of the Bar Association of the County of Middlesex, was its secretary for 15 years, and its president from 1926 to 1929.
lle is a Mason, a member of the Royal Arcanum; American Branch, International Law Association ; American Bar Association; Massachusetts Bar Asso- ciation ; Chairman of Grievance Committee, 1915-1925 ; and member of its executive committee. 1915-1917, 1921-1923; and the Woodland Golf Club.
Mr. Forbush married Miss Annie Louise Mead of Natick and they have two sons, Walter A. and Robert 1 .. Forbush. The latter, who was a member of the First Corps Cadets, was made Master Engineer, Senior Grade. of the 26th Division. He died of pneumonia on March 14, 1919, and is buried in France. The former married Helen B. Dill of Newton and they live with their four children in Brockton. He is manager of the Edison Electric lighting plant of that city.
GARDNER COLBY WALWORTH. of the well known firm of Curtis & Sanger of Boston, was born in New- ton. May 4. 1878. and is a member of one of the oldest families of the city, his father being Arthur C. Walworth and his mother Mary F. ( Colby ) Walworth. He is also a grandson of James J. Walworth, founder of the Walworth Manufacturing Company. He was educated in the Newton schools and at Yale University.
He is a member of the Charles River Country. Union, Exchange, Eastern Yacht, and Yale Clubs and of the Society of Mayflower Descendants.
Mr. Walworth married Miss Marjorie Horton and with one son resides in the Colby Homestead in New- ton Centre, which was built by his grandfather, Gard- ner Colby, one of the first business men of Boston to commute to Newton.
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CHARLES D. WEATHERS, manager of the Boston Office of H. M. Byllesby & Co., investment bankers at 1 State Street. Boston, was born in Concord, New Hampshire, the son of Daniel and Martha Jane W'eathers.
He is a member of Eureka Lodge, A. F. & A. M .. of Concord, New Hampshire, the Engineers Club, Bel- mont Springs Country Club, Vesper Country Club of Lowell, Mass .. and the Beaver Meadow Golf Club of Concord. New Hampshire.
Mr. Weathers was educated in the public schools.
He married Miss Cora May Angier and they have one daughter. Martha Jane Weathers. Their residence is at 742 Commonwealth Avenue, Newton Centre.
SEWARD W. JONES was born in Ebensburg, Pa., February 9, 1857, the son of Lieut. Hugh Jones and Eliza Evans, and received his early education in the Soldiers Orphan School and the public schools of Ebensburg.
He was married in October, 1881, to Miss Sarah .1. Weller, of Zanesville, Ohio, and they have two daugh- ters, Mrs. Donald D. Mckay and Mrs. Warren B. Kennedy, both of Newton Highlands. The family home is at 49 Columbus Street. Newton Higlilands, Mass.
Mr. Jones is the treasurer of the Jones Brothers Co., Inc., manufacturers of "Guardian Memorials" at Barre. Vt., offices, 10 High St., Boston, Mass .; president of the Wells-Lamson Quarry Co., of Barre Vt .; president of The Newton Trust Company ; was first president of the Newton Centre Savings Bank and is now a trustee ; a director in the First National Bank of West Newton, the Needham Trust Co., the Dedham National Bank and the Boston Mutual Life Insurance Co.
Mr. Jones was a member of the Governor's Council for three years, served as a member of the Newton Board of Health for thirteen years, a member of the State Board of Insanity four years, and as trustee of the Danvers State Hospital for six years.
He is a member of the Newton Highlands Congre- gational Church, the Brae Burn Country Club, the Bos- ton City Club, Boston Chamber of Commerce. Middle- sex Club, the Roosevelt Club, The Traffic Club of New England, the Massachusetts Club, and the Republican Club of Massachusetts.
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JOHN WESTON ALLEN, a member of the law firm of Allen, Abbot & Packer, 73 Tremont Street, Boston, was born at Newton Highlands, Mass., April 19, 1872, the son of Walter and Grace Mason ( Weston) Allen.
He received his early education in the public schools of Newton and New Haven, and graduated from Yale University in 1893. with the degree of A. B., and re- ceived his LL. B. degree from Harvard in 1896. The honorary degree of LL. D. was conferred on him by llarvard in 1922, for distinguished public service.
From 1915 to 1918 he represented Newton in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and from 1920 to 1922 was Attorney General of Massachusetts. Ile is a trustee of the American Indian Institute and The Repertory Theatre of Boston, and is a member of the Executive Committee of the National Crime Com- mission, and Chairman of the Committee on Detection and Prosecution of Crime; charter member of the American Law Institute, and a member of the Execu- tive Committee and Chairman of the Committee on the Semi-Centennial Fund of the American Bar Associa-
tion. He is a Director of the Boston Chamber of Commerce.
He is also a member of the Bar Association of the City of Boston, the Middlesex Bar Association, the Society of Mayflower Descendants, Military Order Loyal Legion, Sons of Veterans, and the Cosmos Club of Washington.
During his term of service in the House of Repre- sentatives Mr. Allen instituted investigation of the Fish Trust which resulted in conviction and imprison- ment of the promoters ; and while Attorney General he broke up a powerful blackmail ring by instituting pro- ceedings which resulted in removal and disbarment of District Attorney Tufts and Pelletier in Middlesex and Suffolk Counties; exposed silver stock swindle and se- cured conviction of Thomas W. Lawson and ten other operators for illegal advertising ; investigated and ex- posed Charles Ponzi's financial operations and prose- cuted him for larceny. He also acted in advisory capacity as Attorney General during the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti.
Mr. Allen married Miss Caroline Cheney Hills, of Amherst, and they have three daughters.
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JOHN EARLE PARKER is treasurer of the Acadia Mills of Lawrence, Mass., manufacturers of processed cot- ton yarns and merino yarns, with offices at 78 Chauncy Street, Boston.
He was born in West Rutland, Vermont, on .May 10, 1880, the son of Calvin Joseph and Isabelle Denni- son Parker. He received his early education at the West Rutland Public Schools and at the Rutland In- stitute of Rutland, Vermont. In 1901 he graduated from Middlebury College with the degree of B. S., and from the National University in Washington, D. C., in 1903, where he received the degree of LL. B. and in 1904 the degree of LL. M.
He was private secretary to U. S. Senator Redfield Proctor from 1901 to 1905 and to Judge Frank Plum- ley, Umpire Venezuelan Claims Commission, 1903. Caracas, Venezuela. In 1905 he was admitted to the Bar. From 1905 to 1913 he was private secretary to William Whitman, commission merchant and manu- facturer. From 1913 to 1922 he was with the William
Whitman Company, Inc., in Boston, and since 1922 has been with the Acadia Mills of Lawrence.
He is a director of the Acadia Mills, the Tallapoosa Mills of Tallapoosa, Georgia, and the Newton South Co-operative Bank of Newton Highlands. He is a trustee of the Newton Centre Savings Bank.
From 1923 to 1925 he served as Alderman in New- ton, being elected in 1924, and in 1925 was Vice- President of the Board, and subsequently in 1925, President of the Board.
Mr. Parker is a member of the Waban Neighbor- hood Club, the Arkwright Club, National Association of Cotton Manufacturers, Lawrence Chamber of Com- merce, Newton Chamber of Commerce, and the Delta Upsilon Fraternity.
He married Miss Caroline Mason Burditt of Pitts- ford, Vermont, and they have one son, John Earle Parker, and one daughter, Elizabeth Burditt Parker. The family residence is at 27 Metacomet Road, Waban.
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WILLIAM HRUKE was born in Faneuil, Mass., Feb- ruary 25. 1888, and is the son of Henry Robert and Mary Huke.
Mr. Huke is the executive head of the well known banking house of William Huke & Company of Boston and llartford, Conn., distributors of bonds, investment trust issues, insurance stocks and industrials.
He married Miss Ethel Blanche Hadley and they have three sons and one daughter.
They reside at 1835 Beacon Street. Waban, and have a summer home in Naples, Maine.
GUY MONROE WINSLOW, principal of Lasell Semin- ary. a four year junior college for young women at Auburndale, Mass., was born at Brownington, Ver- mont, on July 1, 1872, the son of James M. Winslow and Mary A. Powers Winslow.
He received his education at Lyndon Institute, Lyn- con Centre, Vermont, and at Tufts College, where he received the degree of A. B. in 1895 and PH. D. in 1898.
He served on the Newton Board of Aldermen for five years and was chairman of the Finance Committee. He was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, is a trustee of the Newton Library, Tufts College and the Chandler School. a trustee and member of the in- vestment boards of the Newton Savings Bank and Auburndale Co-operative Bank, a director of the New- ton National Bank, president of the Lasell Seminary Trustees and President and Director of the Palo Alto Fruit Company.
During the war Dr. Winslow served on the com- mittees for all Liberty Loan drives and was chairman for Ward 4 for the second Loan drive.
He is a member of the University Club, Boston City Club, the Auburndale Club, Middlesex Club, Dal- housie Lodge and several other clubs and organizations.
He married Miss Clara Austin and they have two sons and two daughters.
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ERIC COURTNEY, the vice president and general manager of the Boston Buick Company was born in East Orange, N. J., January 14, 1887 and is the son of John J. and Helen C. Courtney.
He was educated in private schools including Phillips Andover Academy. He is a member of the Masons and the Shrine and of Newton Chamber of Commerce and Boston Athletic Association.
He married Miss Carolyn Steele Graham November 27, 1909 in New York and then came to New England. and with his family of one son Eric and one daughter Helen C. has made his home in Newton Centre.
CHARLES E. KELSEY, president of the board of trustees of the Newton Hospital and a resident of Newton since 1894, was born at Evans Mills, New York. June 7. 1862. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Erastus S. Kelsey. He was educated at .Amherst Col- lege, receiving the degree of A. B. on graduation and the honorable degree of Master of Arts in 1926.
Besides his deep interest in the Newton Hospital, Mr. Kelsey also served as a trustee of the Newton Free Library for ten years, and as chairman of the building committee of the First Church in Newton, erected in 1903. He was the first chairman of the Newton Chapter of the American Red Cross and served as such during the World War. He is President of Charlesbank Homes, a Boston institution which pro- vides ideal housing conditions for over 100 families. He belongs to the University Club, the Brae Burn Country Club, and the Lake Sunapee Country Club.
Mr. Kelsey married Miss Carrie Maude Pratt and the family consists of one son and one daughter. He resides on Montvale Road, Newton Centre.
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CHARLES FORREST RITTENHOUSE, a certified public accountant, is the head of Charles F. Rittenhouse & Company of Boston, engaged in the general practice of accounting and consultants on management and financial problems. The firm also has a New York office.
Mr. Rittenhouse was born in Deersville, Ohio. October 3, 1880, and is the son of James Ross and Arda Howell Rittenhouse. He was educated at Mt. Union College and Northeastern University, School of Commerce and Finance.
He is a member of the Massachusetts Board of Registration of Certified Public Accountants, Ex- President of the Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants, Inc., and of the Boston Chapter of the National Association of Cost Accountants, a member of the American Society of Certified Public Accountants, The American Institute of Accountants. The American Association of University Instructors in Accounting, the Charles River Country Club, and the Boston City Club.
He married Miss Lucy Bates and they have one (laughter. Their home is at 707 Commonwealth Avenue, Newton Centre.
LOUIS VAN N. WASHBURN is a member of the firm of Washburn, Frost & Company, dealers in invest- ment securities, with offices at 24 Federal St., Boston.
He was born in Newtonville, Mass., on July 15, 1890, the son of George W. and Martha E. Washburn. He received his education at the Froebel School and the Newton High School.
During the War he was with the Harvard R. O. T. C .. Second Plattsburg Camp, and served with the United States Army from November, 1917, to De- cember, 1918.
He is a member of the Brae Burn Country Club, Oakley Country Club, Waban Neighborhood Club, Boston Madison Square Garden Club, Bond Club of Boston, and the Boston Chamber of Commerce.
He married Miss M. Elsie Harrington and they have two sons, William Van N. Washburn and Stephen L. Washburn.
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GEORGE W. SWEET, who is president of the Stude- baker Sales Co., of Boston, New England Dis- tributors, with offices at 1295 Boylston Street, Boston, was born at Owego, Tioga County, New York, on October 30, 1886, the son of John R. and Anna C. Carter Sweet.
He is also president of The Pierce Arrow Sales Co., of Boston, and vice-president of the Newton National Bank.
During the war Mr. Sweet served as a Captain in the Ordnance Department from April, 1917, to January, 1919.
He is a member of the Society of Automotive En- gineers.
He married Miss Florence B. Steele and they have one daughter.
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GEORGE J. MARTIN, president and treasurer of Mar- tin Manufacturing Company of West Newton, is a native of Newton. He was educated in the Newton public schools and after graduating from high school entered the employ of Tucker, Hammond & Co., job- bers of hosiery and underwear. Sixteen years later, while a traveling salesman for another concern, he started manufacturing curtains in one of his father's wagon sheds. The following year, 1898, he devoted his entire time to manufacturing novelty curtains, then coming into vogue. He established a plant on leased land and in 1905 erected the present buildings on Washington Street at the corner of Felton Street. The business has been successful since its inception and now employs about one hundred people and does an annual business of nearly a million and a quarter. Mr. Martin has been president and treasurer from the be- ginning.
Mr. Martin is also vice-president and director of the Dedham Community Theatre and the Bellevue Com- munity Theatre; a director of the Newton Theatre, Inc., of the Massachusetts Casualty Insurance Co. and of the Newton Trust Co. He is a trustee and clerk of the Newton Savings Bank ; a member of the Vesper Country Club, of the Woodland Golf Club, the Boston Athletic Association, Boston City Club, Boston Cham- ber of Commerce, Philadelphia Carpet and Upholstery Club and of the Upholstery Association of New York. He is vice-president of the Newton Chamber of Com- merce.
Mr. Martin married Miss Gertrude B. Dawes of Melrose and they reside at 349 Commonwealth Avenue. Chestnut Hill. Mrs. Martin is a direct descendant of Wm. Dawes, who made the famous ride with Paul Re- vere.
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RALPH COOLIDGE HENRY is a member of the firm of Henry & Richmond, successors to Guy Lowell, with offices in the Bigelow Kennard Building, 12 West Street, Boston, where they are engaged in the general practice of architecture.
Mr. Henry was born in Amherst, Mass., on Janu- ary 10, 1875, the son of James Stone Henry and Elizabeth Arvilla Hills Henry. He received his early education in the public schools of Watertown, Mass., later entering Massachusetts Institute of Technology where in 1896 he received the degree of Bachelor of Science and in 1897 the degree of Master of Science.
In 1925 Mr. Henry was appointed a member of the Newton Playground Commission by Mayor Childs. He is a member of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, the Boston Chapter American Institute of Architects, and is President of the Men's Club of Eliot Church, Newton, from 1927 to 1930.
During the War he was with the Bethlehem Ship- building Corporation on the United States Naval De- strover Program until the signing of the Armistice.
In 1927 he succeeded to the architectural practice of the late Guy Lowell with whom both he and his partner, Mr. Henry P. Richmond, had been in con- tinuous association from the inception of Mr. Lowell's practice in 1900. Among the principal buildings de-
signed and erected by this firm from 1927 to 1929 are the Grosse Pointe Yacht Club at Detroit, Michigan; Auditorium for Dana Hall Schools at Wellesley ; Ham- ilton School at Newton Lower Falls; Bridgewater Normal School Power Plant at Bridgewater, Mass .; Samuel F. B. Morse Science Building, Phillips Acad- emy. Andover, Mass .; The New England Trust Co., Newbury St., Boston; Mass. School of Art for Com- monwealth of Mass. at Boston; Residences of Ran- dolph Frothingham; Andrew W. Anthony ; Lucius T. Fill; George A. Vose, all upon the Sargent Estate in Brookline; residences of George R. Angus in Waban, Joseph Balch in Westwood, Alfred E. Ells in York Harbor, Maine, and Joseph Pulitzer, Bar Harbor, Maine. They also have made alterations and addi- tions to Grace Church, Newton ; the residence of Miss Alice Sargent, Brookline, and the Piping Rock Club at Locust Valley, Long Island.
Mr. Henry is the author of "Architectural Con- struction" in collaboration with Walter C. Voss of Technology.
In 1902 he married Miss Frances Stanton Cum- ming of New York City, and they have two daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret, the former being a graduate of Wellesley College in 1927 and the latter in her senior year at that institution.
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CHARLES RAYMOND CABOT, an attorney at law and member of the firm of Sherburne, Powers and Need- ham, 19 Congress Street, Boston, is a native of New- ton. He was born in Newtonville on August 12, 1891, the son of Charles Dwight and Alice Washburn Cabot.
He was educated in the Newton schools, graduating from high school in 1908. He entered Dartmouth and received the degree of A. B. from that college upon his graduation in 1912. He graduated from the Bos- ton University School of Law in 1915 and was ad- mitted to the bar that same year.
He served as an assistant Attorney General from 1920 to 1922. He was a member of the Republican City Committee from 1920 to 1927. Since 1920 he has been a member of the Newton Board of Appeal. Mr. Cabot is president and a director of the New Hampshire-Vermont Power Company and a director in the following corporations-New Hampshire Power Co., Durgin, Park & Co., R. Estabrook's Sons Co., Federal Cranberry Co., and Cooley's, Inc., and an in- corporator of the West Newton Savings Bank.
He is a World War veteran, having enlisted in the first Plattsburg Camp in 1917, where he was commis- sioned a second lieutenant of infantry. He served overseas with the 103rd U. S. Infantry, A. E. F., suc- cessively as Second Lieutenant, First Lieutenant, Cap- tain and Major. The 103rd Regiment participated in many engagements as part of the 26th Division, in- cluding Chemin-des-Dames, Toul front, Chateau Thier- ry. St. Mihiel, and Meuse Argonne. He holds the rank of Lieutenant Colonel of the 302nd Infantry of the 94th Division.
He is a Past Commander of both the Military Order of the World War and Newton Post No. 48, American Legion. He is a member of the Boston Bar Associa- tion, Middlesex Bar Association, Dalhousie Lodge, A. F. & A. M., Sons of the Revolution, Middlesex Club, Royal Arcanum, Phi Delta Theta Fraternity, and the Newton Chamber of Commerce.
He married Miss Eleanor Banchor of Newtonville and they have one son, Rogers W. The family resi- dence is at 18 Bullough Park, Newtonville.
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WILLIAM MARK NOBLE, Jr., was born in Newton on April 3, 1899, the son of William M. and Marion W. Noble. He was educated in the Newton Schools and received a Service Certificate from Harvard College in 1920.
He is president of the real estate finance firm of the Newton Mortgage Corporation, with offices in Newton Centre. He is also president of the United States Securities Corporation, a trustee in the Craigie Realty Trust Company, a trustee in the Woodchester Realty Trust Company and a director of the Newton Trust Company.
During the War, Mr. Noble attended the Infantry Officers' Training Camp at Plattsburg. N. Y., where he became physically disabled.
He is a member of the Boston City Club, the New- ton Centre Squash Tennis Club and the Newton Rotary Club.
Ile married Miss Bessie 1 .. Craigie and they have one son and one daughter. The Noble residence is at 122 Monadnock Road, Chestnut Hill.
HARRY EDWIN NOYES, of the Noves Marine Sales Company, motorboat and marine engine distributors. was born in Lowell, Mass., May 28, 1898 and is the son of Harry K. and Hope Pike Noyes. He was educated at Pomfret. Conn., and at Dartmouth College. Mr. Noyes is a member of the Woodland Golf Club, the Tedesco Country Club and the Dartmouth Club of Boston. During the war he was a member of the U. S. N. A.
He married Ruth Pike and with his family of two sons and one daughter, Harry K. Noyes, 2nd, Edward Pike Noves and Hope Ellen Noyes, resides on Morton Street, Newton Centre.
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EDWARD J. FROST, Vice-President and Director of I'm. Filene's Sons Company of Boston, was born in Wisconsin on February 9, 1873.
Mr. Frost is, also, a Director of the Federated De- partment Stores, Inc., R. H. White Company, Free- land Loomis Company, Bloomingdale Bros., Inc., and the Middlesex Investment Company.
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