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We have 100,000 farms, producing a great quantity of cereals, and the average fertility of the soil is equal to that of any State in the Union.
More than ten per cent. of the entire coal output of the country was mined in West Virginia, and the percentage for 1906 will show a greater increase.
Our banking has kept pace with the great development, and thirteen new banks started business the past year. We have now 142 State banks, 76 National banks, and 22 trust companies.
According to expert estimates, more than $100,000,000.00 has been invested in coal and timber lands and coal and timber opera- tions and railroad construction in West Virginia in the past three years, and indications are that this is but a starter.
West Virginia stands second in output of coal, production hav- ing arisen from 1.400,000 tons in 1880 to 43,000,000 in the past year, from the largest coal fields in the country, comprising 17,000 square miles, or one-thirteenth of the total coal area of the United States, and development only fairly started.
Our hills and valleys are adapted to the culture of all the fruits
FISHERMEN'S LUCK, At Greenbrier Springs, 1906.
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TILDEN FONDATIONE.
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grown in this latitude, and produce the finest quality in the great- est luxuriance. Great advance has been made, and the total value of fruits produced, according to the 1900 census, was $150,000,- 000.00.
-"Monroe Watchman," Nov. 27, 1907.
Mrs. Geo. W. Warren, at one time a resident of Hinton, is an authoress of note, having written and published a number of short stories.
The editors. and newspaper writers of the county have been : Cameron L. Thompson, the founder and editor of the "Mountain Herald"; John M. Ferguson, late editor of the same paper: A. Brown Boughner, also of the same paper at a later date: Geo. I. Warren and John H. Jordan, still later; Wm. H. Sawyers, also, as well as Howard Templeton. These are the various editors of this old-established paper, and the first one printed in the New River Valley-established in 1874.
Richard Burks was a veteran newspaper publisher and a writer of merit. At one time and for many years he operated and edited the "Union Register," of Monroe County, which in the early days after the war had a large circulation in Summers County and its territory. Afterward he moved his plant to Hinton and founded and published the "Hinton American."
A. S. Johnston and W. B. Cushing published and edited the "Hinton Independent" after its purchase from Chas. Lewis Peck. the founder.
S. F. McBride was a virile writer, and founded the "Hinton Re- publican," and later the "Hinton Headlight," which finally became the "Hinton Leader."
J. A. Oldfield, a very forcible writer, edited the "Hinton Re- publican," and after him for some time R. Hunter Graham, and since it became the "Leader" John W. Graham has owned, edited and published it.
The "Free Lance" was edited during its sickly life by the vet- eran editors and newspaper men, Geo. C. McIntosh and James Henderson.
The greatest freak in the newspaper editorial business was the "Yellow Jacket," a free lance Republican paper edited by J. J. Swope, the founder of the "Wyoming Mountaineer." It lived dur- ing the Congressional campaign of 1902; supported Jas. 11. Miller, the Democratic candidate for Congress, and was supported by that branch of the old-time Republicans who were opposed to the nomination of Joseph Holt Gaines.
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Dr. Wm. H. Talley, Squire Allen L. Harvey and other leaders of the Greenback party established the "Hinton Banner" in 1878, of which Dr. Talley was the editor. It led a feeble existence for a year or so.
Paper before the war was exceedingly scarce. Tax tickets, for instance, were made out of little strips of paper large enough to make a condensed statement of taxes, frequently written, and not printed, on brown paper or scraps of paper. Receipts and accounts were kept in a similar way. A sheet of paper would be cut into narrow strips just large enough for a condensed receipt or statement or account. We give below a sample of the tax tickets used some time prior to the war, which were written out by the sheriff, evidently in the presence of the taxpayer.
Robert Boyd,
August 20. To Taxes of 1849
Rec. Pay't, S. M. Meadows, D. S.
Mr. Robert Boyd,
To the Sheriff of Monroe County,
Dr.
To 1 Poll, County and Parish levy $1.50
Personal Property 2.36
Land tax 4.20
Railroad tax -- Land 5.70
$13.76
John W. Lanias, S. M. C.
1817
Robt. Boyd,
To the Sheriff of Monroe County, Dr.
1 Poll at 75 Horse 18. $ .93
Land
22 .22
M. C. Note 236. 2.36
M. G. Note 42 .42
1818 Feb. 28
By Cash 3.93
M. Erskine, D. S.
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1862
Patrick Boyd's Heirs, To the Sheriff of Monroe County.
To County levy at $. .. Parish levy at ... . c.
Cap. tax at $. .....
To slaves and property tax on $. valuation.
.12
To land tax on 10 acres. Rec. Payt. S. A. Clark, Dr. For A. L. Harvey, S. M. C.
Robert Boyd, Dr.
To the Sheriff of Monroe County.
1827 I Poll $ .75
2 Horses .24
Land .47
CT .50
1.90
Hugh Caperton, D. S.
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW.
The following is a list of attorneys-at-law who have prac- ticed in Summers County since its formation as a county, as shown by the records of the circuit court, and the year in which they qualified at this bar. This work is done by Walter II. Boude, Esq., clerk of the circuit court of the county at this date :
N. M. Lowry 1871
A. A. Chapman 1872
C. A. Sperry 1871
A. G. Tebbetts 1871
Cyrus Newlin 1872
James H. McGinnis 1872
W. G. Ryan 1872
J. B. Peck 1873
Robert C. McClaugherty 1873
R. F. Dennis 1873
J. Speed Thompson 1873
Martin H. Holt 1873
John A. Douglass 1873
Fount W. Mahood 1873
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W. W: Adams 1873
A. C. Snyder 1874
J. C. Reed 1874
James F. Patton 1873
A. J. Lacy 1874
H. T. Wickham 1874
Governor Samuel Price 1874
J. F. Snyder 1874
John A. Preston 1875
James H. French 1875
Alex. F. Mathews 1876
A. N. C. Levenson Gower. 1877
John W. Harris 1874
John W. Arbuckle 1874
A. N. Campbell 1873
John W. McCreery 1873
Colonel James W. Davis 1873
M. A. Steele
1875
A. C. Fellers 1876
M. Vanpelt 1877
W'm. R. Thompson
1877
George W. Easley 1877
James W. Malcolm 1878
David E. Johnson 1877
Elbert Fowler 1874
1878
Mark Jarrett
1879
H. D. McCue
1879
F. B. Smith
1880
Thomas N. Page 1881
A. C. Houston
1881
Wm. H. McGinnis
James D. Johnston 1881
1881
Frank Hereford 1881
A. W. Hawley 1882
A. C. Davidson
1882
J. W. St. Clair
1882
John H. Crozier
1882
Samuel W. Williams 1883
C. P. Snyder 1883
James H. Brown 1883
E. Willis Wilson 1883
J. D. Logan
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J. W. Hale 1883
Albert W. Reynolds 1883
A. P. Farley 1883
J. M. Payne
1881
C. W. Bocock
1881
James H. Miller 1882
J. W. Cracraft 1882
P. P. Garland
1882
W. S. Laidley
1884
George D. Haynes
1884
John Osborne
1884
James P. Pack 1884
J. W. Isbell 1884
George W. Warren 1884
Henry C. Simms 1885
C. W. Smith 1885
Charles A. Clark 1885
John J. Cabell 1885
F. S. Blair 1885
C. C. Watts 1885
Ichn E. Kenna 1885
John S. Rudd 1885
Frank J. Parke 1885
James H. Ferguson 1885
W. G. Hudgin 1886
James M. French 1886
S. C. Burdette 1886
Walter M. Gwinn
1886
George R. Poole 1885
Frank Lively 1886
A. P. Farley 1886
W. F. Boggess 1886
A. J. Oliver (colored) 1887
J. A. Bings 1887
Joseph E. Chilton 1887
Thomas G. Mann 1887
Henry Gilmer 1888
J. B. Laidley 1888
C. W. Campbell 1888
Thomas H. Dennis 1888
F. B. Enslow 1888
L. M. Day 1888
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J. D. Daniels 1888
John H. Holt
H. W. Straley, Jr. 1889
P. B. Stanard 1889
1889
L. D. Isbell
1888
H. W. Brazie 1889
Homer A. Holt 1890
C. B. Cushing 1890
H. A. Mykrantz 1890
M. A. Manning 1890
Alfred Rheistorm 1890
W. S. Thompson 1891
James W. Hayes 1891
John D. Alderson 1891
John M. McGrath 1891
J. J. Swope 1892
F. M. Hartman 1892
J. R. Kountz 1892
W. E. Chilton 1892
L. J. Williams 1892
R. L. Keadle 1893
M. Jackson 1893
M. B. Stickley
1893
Ben. H. Oxley 1893
WVm. H. Sawyers 1893
Thomas N. Read. 1893
J. S. Clark 1894
C. R. Summerfield 1894
H. S. Douthitt 1894
C. M. Alderson 1894
P. W. Strother 1894
John W. Johnson 1894
S. L. Flournoy 1894
Geo. E. Price 1895
IV. W. Lively 1895
J. A. Oldfield 1895
A. R. Heflin 1895
H. D. Perkins 1896
I. D. Payne 1896
IV. H. Garnett 1897
R. M. Baker 1897
Herbert Fitzpatrick 1897
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Alfred B. Percy 1897
E. W. Nowlan 1895
James P. D. Gardner (colored) 1897
T. C. Lowry 1897
E. W. Knight 1897
R. F. Dunlap 1897
A. G. Patton
1897
Wm. H. Copeland 1897
-E. S. Curtis 1898
G. M. Ford
E. C. Eagle
1898
George J. Thompson 1898
C. W. Ossenton
1898
E. M. Keatley 1899
Wm. A. Wade 1899
Wesley Mollohan 1899
A. V. Perkinson 1899
J. French Strother 1899
Robert H. Miller 1899
George W. Lewis 1899
Robert McEldowney 1900
1900
A. A. Lilly 1900
T. L. Sweeney (colored)
T. M. Garvin 1900
P. W. Boggess 1900
T. L. Henritze 1900
M. I. Dunn 1901
Upshur Higginbotham 1901
Roy R. Hoge 1899
I. E. Christian 1902
J. F. Maynard
1902
George J. McComas 1902
T. W. Peyton 1902
E. L. Nuckells 1902
C. W. Allen 1902
James W. Marshall 1903
Wm. R. Bennett 1903
L. E. Poteet 1903
R. J. Thrift 1905
A. D. Daly 1903
M. N. Higginbotham 1904
J. Alex. Meadows 1898
1897
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Ira C. Green 1905
J. W. Kennedy 1905
Ashton File 1905
J. Lewis Bumgardner 1905
J. M. Ellis (colored )
R. H. Graham 1906
S. B. Thomas 1906
W. L. Lee 1907
John T. Simms 1907
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Robert S. Spillman 1907
J. E. Price 1907
Robert E. Maxwell 1907
Robert Bland 1907
TWO UNFORTUNATE YOUNG LAWYERS.
George D. Haynes, a descendant of the ancient Haynes family who settled in Fayette County, married a Miss Holliday and came to Summers County when about twenty-five years of age. He taught school. residing on Lick Creek, where he purchased a small tract of land and erected a residence. He studied law and was an energetic man, a loyal man, and an honest man. After residing there for a few years, when the financial misfortune came to the firm of Bearse & Hall at Meadow Creek, which had been doing a large and extensive stave, lumber and mercantile business, having one of the largest general merchandise stores of Summers County at Meadow Creek. Mr. Haynes was appointed receiver by Judge A. N. Campbell. He had for several years been studying law, and had been admitted a few years previous to the practice. He then removed to Meadow Creek about 1885, took charge of and wound up that extensive business as receiver, teaching school in the meantime and practicing his profession. After closing out this business, he removed to Hinton, purchasing property in Smith Hollow and residing there for some time, later purchasing the Jordan property on the court house square, where he lived until his death, with his family. He was elected and served one term as recorder and one term as mayor of Hinton.
Phil D. Stanard, a native of Rockingham County, Virginia, some time prior to the removal of Mr. Haynes to Hinton, had come to Hinton as a railway employee in the station at Hinton. During his employment he studied law with James H. Miller, and was
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M. F. Matheney 1906
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admitted to the practice. He was a bright young man. After being admitted to the practice he removed to Newcastle, Virginia, . married a young lady from Lexington, Virginia, practiced there for a few years, and then about the time Mr. Haynes came to Hin- ton, Mr. Stanard removed his family to the same city, and he and Mr. Haynes formed a partnership as Haynes & Stanard. Their business grew, and they were growing in the confidence of the people, but in the spring of about 1895 Mr. Stanard was found in a dying condition in the third story of the Tyree Building, on the corner of Third and Front Streets, lying in a bed. Some powders were found in the room and the paper covers from others were found there, and the evidence showed that he had taken an over- dose of morphine. An inquest was held, and the conclusion ar- rived at was that no crime had been committed, and that Mr. Stanard had either taken this overdose intentionally or by inad- vertence, he having become addicted to some extent to the use of this drug. He was buried at Lexington, Virginia, and thus the firm of Havnes & Stanard terminated. He was a man of bright intellect, with a bright future before him.
Soon after, Judge A. R. Heflin removed to Hinton and formed a partnership with Mr. Haynes, under the firm name of Haynes & Heflin. Within about twelve months afterwards, Mr. Haynes had been out of town attending to some legal matters ; returned home on Saturday night, and on Sunday was found dead in his bed. He had also unfortunately become addicted to the use of strong drink. and had either taken an overdose of some drug intentionally or by inadvertence. They were about thirty-five years of age. Thus terminated the lives of these two young men. The family of Mr. Haynes still resides in Summers County, his widow having married Rufus Bragg, of Green Sulphur District.
SKETCHES BY CLERK BOUDE OF A FEW OF THE LAW- YERS WHO HAVE PRACTICED AT THE SUMMERS BAR SINCE THE FORMATION OF THE COUNTY IN 1871.
Gen. A. A. Chapman, lawyer, dropped dead at the railway track in Hinton, from apoplexy, en route to Charleston, about 1877, and Major Cyrus Newlan, a New Yorker, located at Union, died of heart disease while attending court in Hinton some few years after the formation of the county. He was a very bright man. but
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dissipated, and was called a "carpet bagger." He is buried in Hinton, but nothing to show his last resting place.
J. B. Peck, 1873. Was a native of Giles County and lived in Virginia and practiced his profession for many years, and was a good lawyer. He died recently.
John A. Preston, 1875. He is a member of the Lewisburg Bar and an able practitioner, and one of the most popular men of Greenbrier County. He is a Democrat and has represented his people as prosecuting attorney and delegate to the Legislature.
John W. Harris, 1875. Has been a member of the Lewisburg Bar for many years and is a lawyer of ability. He now resides in Richmond, Virginia.
Gen. A. A. Chapman was a resident of Monroe County, where he resided many years. He practiced here in the early history of the county, and rode horseback from his home in Union, and at- tended the courts of this county before the completion of the rail- road. He was elected to Congress when this part of the State was Virginia. He was a good lawyer and enjoyed a large prac- tice, and attended many of the courts in the adjoining counties. Few men in the country were better known than Gen. Chapman. He died in Hinton in 1876, while on his way to attend a Demo- cratic Congressional Convention at Charleston.
David E. Johnston, 1877. His home is in Bluefield, Mercer County, and one of the leading lawyers of this part of the State. He is identified with many enterprises of his State, and few men in Southern West Virginia are better known. He was a Confed- erate soldier during the Civil War, and is the author of several books. He was elected to Congress from this district in 1898.
A. C. Snyder. 1874. Was from the Greenbrier Bar and was a good lawyer. He was a judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia at one time.
John W. Arbuckle, 1874. Is a native of Greenbrier County and a leading citizen. He is quite an active man in his profession and a most excellent speaker and political campaigner. He is quite popular throughout the Greenbrier Valley. Has represented his people in the State Senate.
Alexander F. Mathews, 1876. He lived in Greenbrier County, and was a very prominent man in the State and a fine lawyer. He was a brother of Governor Henry M. Mathews. He died a short tinie ago.
W. W. Adams came here in the early 70's from Virginia and soon built up a lucrative practice. He was a great mixer with
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the people, and soon became well known. He was an able man in his profession and had the confidence of the people. He was a Democrat and elected to the State Senate in 1876. About the year 1884 he moved to Charleston, where he died in 1894. At the time of his death he was a member of the law firm of Adams & Miller.
Martin H. Holt, 1873. Lived at Beckley, in Raleigh County, and was a native of Floyd County, Virginia. He died at Wyoming Court House while attending a term of the circuit court of that county. It is said that he died while sitting at the table drinking a cup of coffee.
M. Vanpelt, 1877. Was a lawyer from the county of Fayette, and lived in that county for many years. He represented this district in the State Senate for one term, commencing in 1887. He was the superintendent of the penitentiary during the Mc- Corkle administration.
James H. McGinnis was born in Logan County, Virginia, now West Virginia, and lived in the county of Raleigh for many years. We find from the records that he was practicing law in Summers County in the year 1872, and for a number of years after had con- siderable business at this bar. He was a brilliant man in his pro- fession and well known throughout the State. He was a Repub- lican in politics and a leader among his people. He had no ene- mies. He was ever ready to lend a helping hand to those who needed his assistance and influence. He was a prominent figure and noted landmark of Raleigh County. Died at Beckley Sep- tember 2, 1907, at the age of seventy-nine years. He had been prosecuting attorney of Raleigh and Fayette Counties. He was the father of W. H. McGinnis and J. D. McGinnis, both members of the Raleigh Bar. He was admitted to the bar in early life.
A. G. Tebbetts came to Monroe County, West Virginia, from New Hampshire and began practicing law in Union during the days of reconstruction. He attended the courts of this county for a time while he resided in Monroe, and made a number of friends. and his name is often mentioned by the older settlers. He was a careful and safe man in business. He removed to Charleston, West Virginia, where he died.
Nelson M. Lowry was the first attorney to locate in Summers County for the practice of his profession after its organization in 1871. He came here when quite a young man, and lived in Hinton for a number of years. He soon built up a large practice, and had the reputation of a good lawyer. He was quite popular among his people and well known. He was a Democrat and a leader in his
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party. He was elected to the Legislature in 1880, and in the year 1885 went West, and died in Texas a few years later.
A. N. Campbell is among the leading lawyers of the State; was judge of the Tenth Judicial Circuit for eight years and has represented his county in the Legislature. His home is in Monroe County, and no man in that county is closer to the hearts of his people than Judge Nelse Campbell. He was a Confederate soldier during the Civil War. He graduated in law at the Washington and Lee University, and his diploma is signed by Gen. Robert E. Lee. He has a fine memory and seldom forgets a face or name. He is a man of great physical strength and well endowed by nature. He is still in the active practive of his profession.
Elbert Fowler was a native of Monroe (now Summers County) and reared at the mouth of Indian Creek. He was a Confederate soldier and member of Lowry's Battery, and after the close of the war began the practice of his profession. He was an able and successful lawyer and a great friend to the common people. No man was more true to his friends. He founded the "Border Watch- man," afterwards called the "Monroe County Watchman," in the early 70's, which is now one of the oldest and most influential newspapers in West Virginia. He was an energetic and able writer. He was elected prosecuting attorney of this county in 1876, and served four years in that office. He was a leading Demo- crat and a fine politician. At the time of his death he was a member of the law firm of Fowler & Miller. He died in 1885.
Frank Hereford came to Monroe County from California soon after the close of the Civil War. He did much for this part of the country during the days of reconstruction. He was elected to Congress from the Third District in 1872, and re-elected in 1874 on the Democratic ticket, and few men in our country were more popular. In 1877 he was elected United States Senator to succeed the late Allen T. Caperton, who was then in the Senate from the county of Monroe. Mr. Hereford was a conservative man and was always found true and loyal to his people. He often visited Sum- mers County in its early days, and did much to encourage its people and build up its institutions. He died in 189 -.
FORTS.
The pioneer settlers established forts for their protection against the attacks of the savage Indians who still infested the regions west of the Allegheny Mountains, as well as from the attacks of
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wild beasts and reptiles. The forts that were established and maintained within the borders of this county so far as we are able to learn are as follows: Keeney's Fort was located at the foot of Keeney's Knobs ; the exact location is in some doubt, and on which side of the mountain. There was a fort on the bottoms below Alderson in the county near the mouth of Griffith's Creek. Jarret's Fort was on Wolf Creek at the mouth on the Summers side of the river. There was a fort on Indian Creek three miles from its mouth known as the Cook's Fort. There were two forts on Culbertson's or Crump's Bottom, one known as Farley's Fort. This was estab- lished by Captain Matt Farley. The other, Field's Fort. There was another on the Gatliff Bottoms, or Barker place. There was a fort several hundred yards below the Green Sulphur Springs which was much older than any civilized settlement of this region. It was built of stone across the bottom near where the frame barn of Harrison Gwinn now stands. The remains are still to be plainly seen. This was constructed by the Indians before the whites had ever crossed the Alleghenies. The houses of the settlers were constructed for defensive purposes, and were forts on a miniature scale. Many of them had no windows whatever. An example of this still remains on the old Ballangee place at the mouth of Greenbrier, still standing. Evi Ballangee and his brother John inherited the land from their father, George. He and his sister neither ever married, both living to be very old people. There was another brother, John, who settled at the foot of Keeney's Knob, in the Graham settlement, which place is now owned by Squire C. H. Graham, who married his daughter. This house at the mouth of Greenbrier was a house of the aristocratic in its day, and never had a window in it until fifteen years ago, when Evi had a window constructed in the walls of the house, and a well dug in the yard, over which he had a little frame house con- structed, covered with corrugated iron, of which he was very proud. One fort in a settlement was expected to accommodate all the people in the surrounding section. If an alarm was made of a prospective Indian attack, all the settlers gathered with their women, children, cattle and effects into the fort. Many of the dwellings were so constructed as to enable the occupants to fight the savages, after the Indian incursions had become less frequent.
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THE IRISH SETTLEMENT.
About 1870 there settled on the mountain above Elton, in Green Sulphur District, several native Irish families, who have formed and grown into a thrifty, enterprising and law-abiding . community. Among them was Thomas Hurley, a native of Ire- land, who married Catharine Lawler. He was a native of Cork County, Ireland : purchased four hundred acres of good mountain land, and there raised a family and died. His children are Jerry, John, Dennis, James and Timothy. Dennis married Mary Sulli- van, of Raleigh County. The daughters were Nora, who married John Hurley, from Ireland: Margaret, who married Tom Goheen ;. and Ellen, unmarried.
Another family was that of Richard Twohig, who emigrated to this country from Ireland in 1850, first locating in Rockingham County, Virginia. He aided in building the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad. He married Julia Shay, dying in Greenbrier County. The boys were James, Dennis, Bartholomew and Richard, and one daughter, Mary, who married Jerry Hurley, son of Thomas Hurley.
Another of these families was Patrick Conly. His wife was Margaret Hagerty, also from Cork County, Ireland, locating in that region in 1869: He left a number of children. Among them were Dennis, who married Nora Sullivan, and Patrick.
Another family was Terrence Foley, who left two sons, John and Patrick Foley.
Another family was Edward McGuire, who left five sons sur- viving him-Morris, Edward, John, Mike and Patrick.
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