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THE COUNTY.
Official Paper of the City of Plentywood
VOL. VII, No. 48
A PAPER OF THE PEOPLE. FOR THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF SHERIDAN COUNTY
Continuing the Outlook Promet»
Sheridan County News & Dooley Su»
PLENTYWOOD, SHERIDAN COUNTY, MONTANA, FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1925
Fed Land Bank Would Exclude
a
JUDGE SETS DATE FOR EXAMINING RECEIVERS
ON MARCH 21ST, 1925, AT 10:00 A. M., JUDGE OF
TWENTIETH JUDICIAL DISTRICT WILL HAVE
PUBLIC HEARING ON STEWARDSHIP OF CLOSED
BANKS.
DEPOSITORS WILL WELCOME COURTS ACTION
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Judge S. E. Paul has set aside
March 21st, 1925, for the purpose of
publicly examining the receivers and
their reports of the following closed
banks in Sheridan County. The Farm
Siate Bank of Medicine Lake, The
Sheridan County State Bank of Plen
tywood and The State Bank of Plen
tywood. The judge advises that he
finds that Comer never approved or
disapproved reports filed by the re
ceivers of closed banks in this county,
■ut merely had them filed and evi
d*-ntly forgot about them. The judge '
- required to approve or disapprove
the reports as filed and it is for the
purpose ci giving any interested de
positor or other persons a chance to
l»e heard that Judge Paul has decided
to have the receivers publicly exam
At this hearing it is anticipated
thaï the aggrieved depositors, if
there are any, will avail themselves
of the courtesy by the judge and be
present and examine the receivers.
Judge Paul is not required to conduct
public hearings, but could use his own
discretion as to the approval or the
disapproval of ihe receivers' reports
desires to protect the public
much possible and if the
He
itors do not appear and object to any 1
of tit« reports or any items therein,
he of course, has no other alternative
than to approve of them as rendered.
A peculiar circumstance of the
closed hanks in Sheridan County is
that none, to our knowledge, have
declared any dividends whatsoever,
although this is the best year this
coun y has had since 1915.
All moneys collected hv the receiv
ers belongs to the depositors if such
collections are on papers owned by
the bank at the time it closed. In
every instance when the bank was
forced to suspend, the officers declar
ed tha they would pay the depositors
to the extent of from 75 to 100 per
cent but these promises are locked
upon as so much bunk by the deposit
ors who up to this time have not re
ceived on e penny from the closed in
stitutions.
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Elect Longworth House
Speaker at Rep. Caucus
Peb. 28.—Nicholas
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The Catholic Ladies will
Washington,
Longworth of Ohio, was selected as
the Republican candidate for speaker
of the next house of representatives,
Longwor.ih, who is the present re
publican floor leader, was named ov
er Madden of Illinois, at a caucus of
republican representatives. He was
selected on the first ballot.
dinner at the church parlors on St.
Patrick's Day beginning at 5 P. M.
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DANCE AT FARMER-LABOR TEMPLE
TOMORROW (SATURDAY) NIGHT
Each Dance Creates Greater Enthusiasm for the Wonderful
Floor of the Big Hall and Other Accommodations—
Music Is of the Best—Crowds Enjoy Large Space Which
Gives Plenty of Room and Ventilation Provides Fresh
Air Constantly—Don't Forget Dates As Spring Work
Will Soon Be With Us.
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-Labor Temple next Saturday
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I?. There is always the best of
music, the best crowd and everyone j
ms to enjoy themselves. There
n st-rooms and a large basement
v 'iih is open to those who do not
caro to dance, hut the best of all is
large floor which will accomino
1 1 more than 150 copies at one
time
MINORS NOT
ALLOWED
! he management of the Farmer
Lahor Temple have made a ruling
that minors under the age cf 16 will
' 1 1 he allowed to dance at any of the
• lie dances held in the hall, and
hnis rale will be strictly observed.
BIGGER AND BETTER
EACH DANCE
Each dance promises to he bigger
and better than the preceding. Next
• aturday night will be a hummer.
Come and bring your friends.
Other war veterans who served in
the Civil War and who are now liv
ing in Sheridan County are: John
Loutzenhiser of Antelope and William
Pritchert of Dooley. Each week the
Producers News receives information
as to other veterans and from all
appearances Sheridan County will
lead all Montana in the number of
Veterans of the Civil War. Sheridan
county is proud of her old soldiers
and if any earn knows of other Veter
ans in this county, the Producers
News would be glad to hear from
them so as they may also publish
their names,
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Some More Civil War
Vets in Sheridan County
FROID LOSES TO
MEDICINE LAKE GIRLS
Last Friday night, Feb. 20, -the
Froid girls' basket ball team lost a
slow ragged game td the Lake girls
on the latter's home floor by a 7-5
conference game and does not effect
the locals championship,
score.
A lunch was served to the teams
after the game. This was a non
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QUEBEC REPORTS
THREE ARE DEAD
IN EARTHQUAKES
Quebec, March 4.—Three persons
dead, scores of homes damaged by j
tremor and fire, e.ne church collapsed, 1
and general consternation among resi
dents of the St. Lawrence and Sague
nay all the known toll of the earth
quakes of last Saturday night and
the"Fapuenav district it was re
norted the (makes had been almost
continuous sTnce the firrt ones prior
tolatuidVfantastic
ling occurred at 10:10 a. m. f today.
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qvpk PATiqE
X vrt March 4.-Having vir
,„aljy decided that Saturday night's
rtratarock movement in tha extrem
northeastern part of the United
States or in eastern Canada seien
tists are endeavoring to chart the epi
central point inore exac ly.
Some held that the tremors which
ill 4 ? ._person
shook a large area of the continent
were caused by a slip of rock in a
great fracture known as the fudmn
fault, kes de *P in tke a
tic's bed off the Maine coast.
Others placed the quake near
mouth of the Saguenay river in the
[province of Quebec.
«FROID MAN SENT-
TENCED FOR VIOLAT
ING LIQUOR LAWS 1
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Harry Hoffman of Froid was fined
$200.00 and sentenced to sixty days
jin the county pail by Judge Paul on
Tuesday of this week. Mr. Hoffman
was arrested some time ago ior vl °"
lating the liquor laws and have been
[out on bail in the meantime.
Hoffman plead guilty to the charge
cf violating the Volstead act prefer
red against him by County Attorney
{A. C. Erickson,
B. N. Benson, well known farmer
from the Medicine Lake country,
transacted business in Plentywood on
Saturday of last week,
city, Mr. Benson called at this office
to have his News renewed for an
other year.
While in the
DISASTROUS FIRE AT
ST. PAUL, MINN.
St. Paul, Feb. 28.—Fire wrecked
the interior of the Kendick building
and caused a loss estimated at $150,
000 .
No one was injured.
Three persons were rescued from
the burning building, which was one
of the older stiucvures in the busi
ness section.
Eight below zero weather and a
stiff wind hampered the fire men in
their work,
WINONA WANKLE
WINS HIGH HONOR
WILL GO TO BOZEMAN AND COM-1
PETE FOR STATE CHAMPION
SHIP.
Wynona Wankel, oldest daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wankel of
Dooley was the winner in the state
wide essay contest from the north
eastern Montana district and left last
week for Bozeman where she will
take part in the state championship
essay contest.
This contest is being conducted by
TT T V A ^ + f t>
the English department of the Boze
man Agricultural College the state
being divided into districts and suc
cessful contestants go to Bozeman
from each district. Miss Wankel will
ahly represent this northeastern dis
trict and will give a good account of
herself in the state contest Her
friends hope that she will win the es- :
say contest for the state which would
be a singular accomplishment indeed, j
BIG SUCCESS!
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Mammoth Crowd from T
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Excellent Music.
True to predictions of the Producers
News last week ' a great thr ° ng from
every walk of life tripped the light
at the Farmer-Labor Tern
p!e Saturday mght
It was a dGii^utful sc6iii6 to look
upon as the merry-makers tripped
their way around the large hall to
^'Ät^entlfaltehandröf
the Plentywood Band
U E *J e ^ d had a d time . every
body and a real get-together
time wag had by ad The grouch
nowhere to be found and each
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met on an equal plane ana
^ recognized tha t the other fellow
wag ag good ag himself and with this
gQO<l fel t GWship pervading throughout
the entire evening, everyone had a
theto the music
The dance broke * up at 3:00) when
the orchestra played "Home Sweet
Home," despite the protests of the
merry-makers,
MUST BEHAVE
AS GENTLEMEN
One of the unfortunate situations
arising at the dance was when seme
youngsters seemed to have come to
the conclusion xhat they owned the
place and could *break things up if
they s .0 desired. While the committee
wishes to see everyone have a good
time and as they do not desire to
interfere with anyone unless abso
lutely necessary, yet it would he well
for the young men to respect the
rights of others and conduct them
selves as gentlemen. No rough stuff
win be tolerated and anyone who per
sists in rowdy stunts will he expelled
from the building.
which kept
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DOINGS AT THE
STATE CAPITOL
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Antiquated Laws Still on Statute
Books
The bills introduced by Robert Lar
son in the house and Senator Taylor
in the senate having for their object
the removal of blue laws passed dur
ing ihe war time hysteria were stran
gled to death by the members of both
houses without comment. A peculiar
defect of the Rotary Club mind,
which predominates in this legislature
is its failure to change anything even
when convinced such a change is de
sirable. It seems to be impregnated
with the psychology of fear. The on
lv reforms a Rotarian seemingly can
safely stand for is good roads in the
country and sewers in the dty.
Robert Larson received many let
ters commending him on the introduc
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W.C.T.U. MEETING
Our next meeting of the W. C. T.
U. will be held Tuesday, March 10th
at 8:00 P. M., at the home of Mrs.
Hans Rasmussen.
Although we had a good attend
ance at our last meeting we regret
that many more were not there to
enjoy the splendid program. Mrs.
Erickson's talk on Parliamentary
Law, Mrs. Lewis' paper on Frances
Willard, Mrs. Siewert's
paper on
Christian Citizenship, Miss Gunder
son's singing and the hospitality of
the hostess, Mrs. Helgeson made a!
most pleasing time for the members. |
Are you interested in your heme ? |
Are you interested in your communi
ty ? Are you interested in your
i State and Nation ? If so there is
1 some work in the W. C. T. U. that
will interest you.
We have five departments of work
1 in our local union with the following
i superintendents in charge;
Mrs. Mitchell .
Mrs. Siewert .
Mrs. Hein .
Mrs. Helgeson .
1 Mrs. Wm. Erickson
Evangelistic
.Publicity
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•""d. Contests
..Child Welfare
.Legislative
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Mrs. Hem will have charge of the,
April program and Mrs. Helgeson the
meeting in May.
^ ,. 0ur " ext meeting we take up
the discussion of medical temperance.
Talks will be given on Habit Form
1 mg Drugs by Mrs. Ostby; Alcoholic
; Medicines by Miss Malcolm and "Safe
Remedies in Illness," by Mrs. Riba.
Our Legislative Superintendent will
give another short talk and drill on
Parliamentary Law J
Remember the date and place and
COME.
MRS. C. G. CHRISTIANSON.
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AdministVation Leaders Take First
Step in Removing LaFollette and
Followers from Present Standing—
Must Have Discipline.
Washington, Feb. 28.—The repub
lican committee on committees of the
senate took the first step toward car
rying through the organization pro
gram for the removal of Senator La
Folleite, and his three chief support
ers from their present standing in
committee ranks.
The four senators, also including
Broofchart of Iowa, Ladd and Frazier
01 North Dakota, were assigned ten
tatively at the bottom of the commiv
tee lists as though elected on the in
dependent ticket instead of the re
publican party. The action is first
subject to the consideration c.f the
republican party conference and then
the senate.
DEMOCRATS WILL STAND ASIDE
Washington, Feb. 28.—The senate
democrats, under the plan the leaders
outlined, will keep clear of the, row
between the Republican organization
and the LaFollette insurgents over
the committee assignments. It is
also said that the minority will not
throw obstacles in the way of the re
publican majority in the organization
of the new senate.
BORN, to Mr, and Mrs. Ted Lin
dell of Comertown, a baby boy weigh
ing 15 pounds, Tuesday, February
24th, Mother and son are , doing
pi cel y and Ted is wearing the smile
that won't come off.
FROID GiKLS BEAT CULBERT
SON AND WIN CHAMPIONSHIP
Froid, Feb. 27.—Last Tuesday ev
ening found the local squad at Cul
bertson where their final basket ball
game cf the season was played.
The Froid girls having defeated
Culbertson earlier in the season in a
hard fought game, were determined
to repeat he victory and keep their
names at the top of the list among
the conference teams. The game end
e <l with a score of 11 to 7 in favor
of Froid.
The win over Culbertson last Tues
doy night gave the Froid girls the
championship of the Northeastern
District and closed one jf the most
successful basket ball season Froid
has had in several years. The rham
pionship is based on the percentage of
wins over teams eligible or in good
standing In tnc Montana Athletic As
sedation and belonging to the N. E.
District. The teams m good stand
under the conference ruling, whom
Froid played this year are Glasgow,
Wolf Point, Culbertson and Bainville.
Froid has victories over all confein
ence foams played and lost only one
conference game, that being the first
cf the season.
(WAR HEAD SAYS HE
CENSORS AND ALTERS
REPORTS OF OFFICERS
Washington, D. C., March 3.—Sec
retary of War Weeks admitted on the
stand before the aircraft congression
al investigating committee, that he
censored reports of army officers be
fore allowing them to be printed. "1
wanted to be sure nothing was print
ed that would cause disturbance,
Weeks said. Weeks also admitted
that reports of officers were frequent
ly held up a year before being made
public.
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ANTELOPE POULTRY
SHOW DATE CHANGED
WILL BE HELD MARCH 17TH IN
STEAD OF MARCH 13TH AS
FORMERLY ANNOUNCED.
The date of the Antelope Poultry
sh ow has been changed from March
13th to March 17th.
A large poultry show is being
pi anne d for Antelope Tuesday, March
{ 7 th
I silk ribbon prizes will be offered
pn a \\ breeds of poultry, ducks,
se turkeys, Guinea hens and pig
f ong / 0n the ribbons the name and
n f the show will be printed
1 p rizes vv ill be offered on both pen
and single entries. A pen will con
three
j
pa i r ' 0 f geese turkeys Guinea hens
and pigeons and a trio of ducks,
Ther e will be prizes on both young
and 0 j d peng
Entries will be open to tlhe world
and will be taken Monday and up
till noon Tuesday. Judging will start
promptly ai one o'clock. Following
bhe judging there will be a demon
îSSSSï
entries from the poultry raisers
throughout the county
Any entries sent in by express will
be taken care of. The birds w T ill be
fed free.
There will also be an egg show in
connection, one dozen eggs to consti
tute a sample and classified brown
and white.
Do not hesitate to bring in en
tries. Come with your poultry and
see how they compare with the oth
ers.
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DEATH OF EBERT
IN GERMAN REICH
SPOKESMEN OF CAPITALISM
SHOW THEIR REGRETS OVER
DEATH OF GERMAN LEADER.
....Berlin, March 3.—Frederick Ebert,
president of the imperial German so
cialist republic, died Saturday morn
ing after a short illness following an
operation to remove his appendix,
Ebert's death may be followed by
a political crisis as the nation is al
ready tom with class struggles and
reeking with graft scandals in which
Ebert himself was alleged to have
been involved.
BALDWIN SENDS REGETS
The tory government of Britain has
sent its official regrets and Coolidge
president of the capitalist republic of
United States, cabled his regrets, as
did Secretary of State Hughes, who
said in part:
"I have the most agreeable mem
ory of President Ebert, having been
received by him while I was in Ber
lin, where I formed a high opinion
of his great ability and the part he
played in the development of Ger
man democracy since the war."
Among other condolences arriving
from capitalist governments was one
from MulSolini cf fascist Italy, and
accompanying it was a message
the name of the pope from the papal
secretary of state. So far as known,
the Soviet government has omitted
both flowers and regrets.
REGRETS ARE REAL
That these regrets for the passing
of the well-known social-democrat
real and have a profound foun
dation in the conduct of Ebert and
the whole social democracy during
and since the war, is seen in the fear
of international capital that Ebert's
death may precipitate an election in
which the rising Communist vote may
disturb the right wing majority in
the reiohstag and interfere with the
workings of the Dawes' plan, which
Ebert's regime had imposed upon the
German workers.
While Ebert's son and social-demo
cratic cronies are striving to picture
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are
Banking Interests Understood to Be Behind Movement Which
Would Force Farmers to Pay Exhorbitant Rates of Inters
est to Eastern Bankers Through Their Agents, the Local
Small Bankers.
PROTESTS ARE BEING FILED WITH BOARD
Sheridan County Farmers are Receiving Benefit from Low
Rates of Interest Through Several Associations—Good
Work Should Be Continued In Montana As Well As In
Other States—Amount of Money Available Should Be
Increased Rather Than Decreased.
AT PLENTYWOOD
Judge Paul Uses Speed and Efficien
cy In Dispatching Court Cases
Which Is An Innovation to the
Lage Audience of Spectators At
fpndimr Court
Tuesday morning, March 3rd, the
legal lights of the county, the jurors
and the several litigants assembled
at the court house to iron out their
differences before Judge Paul and a
jury in District Court.
LARGE AUDIENCE
IN ATTENDANCE
Each day, a large audience has
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the proceedings, but others are more
or less interested parties Many of
courtTuch rdievS^ott the Slig
and in most cases, the litigants, of
considerable expense.
CASES TRIED
OR SETTLED
The following cases have been tried
or disposed of:
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Robert Templeman of Macloc came
down Saturday on the train and as
sisted the orchestra which played Sat
urday night at the Farmer-Labor
Temple. Robert is right there with
the trombone and his efforts helped
to make the orchestra the big success
it proved to be. He returned to his
home Monday after visiting with
friends in this city.
Roy Robinson was down from Dale
view Thursday and while in Plenty
wood had his name added to the large
list of readers of the Producers
News.
Mr. and Mrs. Saliva had a ten
pound boy born to them Tuesday
night, the third of March. Mother
and son are getting along fine,
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Nelsen of Dag
mar spent the first part of the week
at the Hans Rasmussen home in this
city, before leaving for Europe, where
they will make an extended visit.
CITY DADS WILL LEAYE FARMER
LABOR TEMPLE IN THE DARK
Alderman Louis Moe Moves That the City Place a Light Near
the New Hall, But Motion Is Lost for Want of a Second
—Broad-minded City Dads Will Have to Investigate
Huge Undertaking.
PEDDLER LICENSE
PASSES SENATE
TWO-CENT GAS TAX ALSO IS
FIXED BY UPPER BODY OF
THE ASSEMBLY.
The senate, late Monday afternoon,
third reading the gasoline
passed on
tax measure, H. B. 320, fixing a tax
of two cents a gallon, and also H. J.
R. 2, Kelly, creating a one-year col
legiate course at the school of mines,
but making no appropriation for the
Another bill passed late in
the afternoon on third reading was
H. B. 242, to license itinerant ven
dors, and also the following bills:
No. 314, taxing property of freight
line companies; 320, regulation of
peddlers of farm products; 357, gen
eral powers of county commissioners;
861, trespass on state lands; 385, ap
propriation deficiency claims; 386,
dairy licenses; 441, increase of rate
taxation real and personal property;
389, lowering special school district
levies; 194, giving signers of petitions
15 days to withdraw names after last
day for filing petition.
course.
Reports are rife that the Federal
Land Bank Board are shortly to ex
elude Montana from the northwest
! District cf the Federal Land Bank
j which would deprive the farmers of
! Montana of participating in the Fed
i eral Loans distributed thru the Fed
eral Land Bank at Spokane.
1 During the past six years, many
farmers have availed themselves of
the Federal Loans which aie placed
on a 33 year basis and redeemable
after five years drawing 5 a 4 per cent
interest and payable on the amortiza
tion plan. These loans were made
available to a certain extent during a
time when the banks of Montana were
unable to extend any further credit
to the farmers. This helped scone of
the farmers and in some cases
helped the bankers to liquidate some
i of the loans, as a number of farmers
I would convert their 10 per cent loans
it
>^ 100,1 th £ t P he banking interests
Monta „ a are trfi u . SMUie the
-ithdraival of all Federal Loans from
the state because if 5% per cent loans
are available, the 10 per cent bank
loans could not be placed which would
pUi. many of the bankers out of husi
In Sheridan County there are four
Federal Farm Loan Associations: one
at Comertown, one at Outlook and
one at Antelope. Messrs. Nels Olson,
John Stoner and Andrew Anderson
will represent the Outlook Farm Loan.
Association and Mr. Olson advises this
paper that they are going to fight the
exclusion of Montana from the Fed
eral Land Bank district at the conven
tion of the Northeastern Montana
Federal Farm Loan Association con
vention to be held in Glasgow in the
spring. Efforts are being made in
several directions looking towards in
ducing the Federal Land Bank Board
to let Montana remain in the district
as it is rightfully argued that if Mon
tana is not entitled to the low rate
Federal Loans, with its great agri
cultural possibilities and its enormous
undeveloped areas, then no state in,
the union should be entitled to these
loans. Montana has had more hard
knocks than any other state and if
there are Federal Loans to be had,
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they should be available to Montana
settlers.
The City Council, compoesd of Al
dermen Moe, Kjelstrup, Kavon, Ray
Lang and Mayor Wagner were inad
vertently thrown into a discussion as
to whether or not the city of Plenty
wood should place a street light near
the new Farmer-Labor Temple, last
Monday evening, and after the discus
sion had proceeded for a while, Al
derman Louis Moe moved that the
city place a street light near the
building for the purpose of illuminat
ing the premises and the street run
ning east and west, north of the
Great Northern right-of-way. Aider
men Moe contended that there are no
lights in that vicinity maintained by
the city and that in his opinion the
city should place one there. He ar
gued that a new hall has been built
on that street and that a great num
ber of people patronize the place, and
that the city is bound morally, if not
legally, to furnish the proper light
ing facilities there.
MAYOR WAGNER WANTS
TO INVESTIGATE
Mayor Wagner, as usual, suggested
that he be permitted to investigate
the matter before committing the
rash act of putting the city of Plen
tywood to the expense of maintaining
a street light near a bolshevik insti
tution. This position
ately concurred in by Aldermen Kjel
strup and Lang, while Kavon did not
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