BUSY MILAN VALLEY - BY P. ROSCOE
FROM MY DESTOP TO YOURS: For a week or so I’ve been working with an old (new) microfilm reader-printer that I bought on eBay. It’s not the best machine I’ve ever used – but it’s adequate for my purposes. In any case, playing with it I’ve come across some interesting stuff.
One story I found in the August 8, 1940 edition of the paper tells about “Two aged sisters”, living on the edge of the downtown business district in West Palm Beach, Florida in apparent poverty. They were “found without clothing of any consequences whatsoever, without a stove, icebox, or many sanitary facilities for women. “
The women were Ellen Hamlen, 80, and Mrs. Alice Todd, 88. Both were from Vermilion. Mrs. Todd was the widow of a well-known area farmer named Lewis W. Todd. Both Mrs. Todd and Miss Hamlen were born and raised in Vermilion.
The odd part about the situation was that in their combined estates (i.e. banks and real estate) in Cleveland, Lorain, and Vermilion showed that they were worth nearly $100,000. They had $108 in cash squirreled away in various places around their Florida house.
There must be a follow-up to this story. I just have to take the time to find it.
AND THEN… there is notice of the demise of the “Blind Fortune Teller”. His name was Barclay Daniel Haines. He was only 71. While living in Vermilion he lived, and made a living telling fortunes, in the home of a Mrs. Helen Ingwer.
Before coming to town he ran a grocery store in Norwalk, Ohio. Sometime around 1938 he and Mrs. Ingwer left Vermilion and moved to Sandusky where he died in 1940.
How someone goes from selling groceries to telling fortunes is anyone’s guess. Still – it’s interesting.
THE VERMILION LIGHT: Al Doane sent me a note and a copy of a webpage about Vermilion’s old lighthouse. After leaving the shores of Lake Erie it eventually found its way to Lake Ontario, due South of the City of Kingston, Ontario near the entrance to the Saint Lawrence River, and became known as the East Charity Shoal Light.
Anyway, it was put up for auction by the U.S. General Services Administration and purchased for $25,501.00 by a person named Cyrena Nolan of Dallas, Texas on August 27, 2009.
This light was originally in service in Vermilion, Ohio, and was removed in 1929 after being damaged by an ice storm. It was placed on East Charity Shoal in 1935.
So – if you’re ever wondering what ever happened to our light…
Historically,
"A JAP?"
IT MAY BE TRIVIAL, BUT...: A person named Drew Penfield sent me this clipping yesterday (05/11/12). Not only is it of interest locally (because Mr. Okagi lived and working in Vermilion) - but methinks it has a wider significance.
The workd "Jap" is not an abbreviation. It denotes how Americans once looked down on persons of oriental (in this case Japanese) people. Tis a view of American's past that has, by and large, been forgotten.
I wrote back to Drew and told him, "It is, obviously, of local interest. But I think it also says more about national attitudes of 100 years ago.I've always been amazed at the fact that Okagi was accepted as a member of the local Masonic order. While living in Vermilion I don't believe he was an American citizen - and still he got through WW2 without someone suggesting he was an Japanese spy. I guess the F.B.I. did take a look at him - but they left him alone.
Everyone who knew him seemed to like.
He replied, "I certainly agree, says a great deal about attitudes of the time. Such headlines, common then, would be unthinkable today.
I read some information on the Sandusky photographer Ernst Neibergall, who took so many photos of Mitiwanga, Ruggles Beach, and other lake resorts. He was German and during both world wars he was questioned by the FBI, who confiscated his cameras. Some of those same resorts would post signs stating "For Gentiles only."
Mr. Okagi must have been more than liked, he must have been well respected."
My, my, how times change.
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO CLOUDY?: The accompanying photo of Cloudy’s ferry “Mary N.” got me wondering: Whatever happened to him (Cloudy)? When I first wrote about him some years ago I didn’t know. Years later, whilst talking with the Karen Boas co-author of the book “Through These Gates”, the story of Linwood Park, she told me that Cloudy is buried in Maple Grove cemetery. Until then I just thought he moved on and had faded into the yesteryear. I have also written that Cloudy was born in Canada. But now I’m not so sure.
For those who don’t know: “Cloudy” was Louis Noel. He operated a small ferry concession on the east side of the Vermilion River transporting (mainly) Linwood residents to the west side of the river to do their shopping etc. in town. Though Linwood residents could also walk to town the trek was, for many years, rather circuitous. Taking the ferry was faster and most likely “funner” – especially for kids.
Cloudy's original ferry was a 20-foot flat-bottomed boat named Gertrude. Late Vermilion historian George Wakefield recalled "It was an open craft with benches on either side powered by a single engine near the stern. There was always a big pile of life preservers at the stern, and a large American flag flew aft. He steered her with a rope that ran athwart ship. When he docked he would shut the engine off in just the right place, coast into the dock, and gently toss a line around a pile to bring her to a slow stop. One of his favorite tricks was to start the engine by rocking the boat; he would set the flywheel near the ignition and roll the boat just right and the darn De Moy (engine) would just take off like a pet steam engine. He would then dance a jig as the boat moved in a small curve to the his east dock singing as they went."
When the Gertrude had finally seen her best days local boat builders, Mr. Goetz and Jim Brooks built a new round-bottom boat called the Mary N., put the old engine in her, and Cloudy was back in business. That is he was “back in business” until the days the automobile, and public funded highways overwhelmed the ferrying trade just as it did the interurban electrics.
Lewis Noel was of French-Canadian origins (b. 10/01/1872). I’m unsure of his birthplace because some census data lists it as “Can French” while his obituaries indicate that he was born in Erie, Pennsylvania. [Note: Canada, New France, was the historic homeland of the French Canadian people, the St. Lawrence River valley, in the time of New France. It corresponds to the southern part of modern Quebec.] But setting that aside, Cloudy and his wife Mary apparently came to Vermilion from Erie sometime around 1905-06. By that time they had been married for nine years. Mary Kess Noel (Most folks knew her as Mamie.) died in 1927 at age 46. The couple had one child – an adopted daughter Mary (Bliss). So what became of him?
After he left the boat livery business Mr. Noel worked as a commercial fisherman. Then on Saturday, October 30, 1954 at the age of 83 years Louis “Cloudy” Noel was felled by heart attack in his home at 614 Division Street. A few days later Rev. E.T. English, then pastor of the First Congregational Church, officiated at his funeral at the Fisher Funeral Home. He was laid to rest at Maple Grove Cemetery. It had been snowing. It was cold – and it was cloudy.
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SHOPTALK: Well, very slowly I am learning how to use the new old Canon Microreader-printer at the print shop. It’s hard to do without a user guide I have a repair manual, and that helps. But a users guide would have been helpful.
On Friday (05/11/12) I was searching for info on a tornado that took place in and around Vermilion in the 1950s. I thought it was somewhere around 1954 or ’55. And I must’ve searched for an hour or so when my wife (Georgi) stopped by to tell me something and suggested that I look for the storm on the net.
I thought her suggestion absurd. But having no luck doing what I was doing I took a shot at looking for tornados on the web and – guess what? I found the date almost immediately.
I am a slow learner.
PAINTING: We painted the front office of the shop during the week – and it was a bear of a task. (Some of the cabinets were really, really, heavy.) Nonetheless it looks pretty good.
We acquired a pretty good computer match of the old paint. Consequently, the room doesn’t appear as though it’s been painted – only cleaned.
We’re not trying to make anything look new or newer – only a little better.
ELECTRICAL WORK: Our friend George Spreng spent a good number of hours rewiring and replacing several receptacles in the basement and the backroom. Some of the old wiring was just not real safe. He donated both his time and the things needed to complete the job.
POST OFFICE BOX: Please note that the MUSEUM has a post office box now. Now we won’t have to use our home address, nor the one at the shop for mail.
MEMBERSHIPS: Memberships to the VERMILION NEWS PRINT SHOP MUSEUM are now available. Funds generated will go toward the aforementioned renovations and maintenance of the shop.
If you would like to become a member the VNPSM you can send a check or money order to:
Vermilion Print Shop Museum P.O. Box 792 Vermilion, Ohio 44089
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AGAIN - ANOTHER NEW (NOW OLD) THING: Initially I said that "This will not take the place of the "Macabre" stuff all the time - but will supplement whilst I search for more macabre stories to tell." But methinks that it's carved out a niche for itself and the "Macabre stuff" with have to find another.
So stay tuned...
VOL. VII. NO.49. – May 12, 1904
Mrs. B.B. Hall was killed in a run-away near Olena, Sunday while being driven to church. She had a goiter on her neck and the shock of falling from the buggy caused hemorrhages from which she died.
Mrs. Hall was wife of Prof. B.B. Hall, formerly principal of the Milan Normal School and later superintendent of the Huron Public Schools and both he and Mrs. Hall were well known in Northern Ohio.
The schooner M.I. Wilcox was towed to Huron Tuesday afternoon where a cargo of coal will be loaded.
Wm. I. Keetch, with workman of Cleveland are at Linwood repairing and painting the Livingstone.
On Decoration Day the memorial exercises will be held at Maple Grove cemetery. The G.A.R. Post together with the committees and all others desiring to go will leave town about 12 o’clock so as to reach the cemetery about 2 o’clock when an address will be made and other exercises appropriate to the occasion will be held. [VV Ed. Note: I went to Maple Grove from town last week for a service and it took me 10 minutes to get there. Times have certainly changed.]
A westbound freight train broke in two while coming down from Brownhelm Wednesday afternoon after passing through town the forward portion of the train again broke causing the brakes to set.
A smash up resulted on the curve just west of town, which resulted fatally to an extra conductor, H.B. Phelps of Sandusky.[VV Ed. Note: The accident probably occurred somewhere between Decatur and Adams streets on the west side of Vermilion.] He was on the cars when the crash came and either jumped or was thrown to the ground. His skull was fractured and he was otherwise badly bruised and rendered unconscious. Dr. Quigley was called and did what he could for the injured man who was removed to the caboose and taken to a siding near the station. Later he was taken to Cleveland and placed in a hospital. It has been only a couple of weeks since they buried [sic] an only child hence the shock comes doubly upon his wife.
The accident happened at 4:30 and the wreck was cleared so that the track was open by 7 o’clock. There were eight or ten stock cars crushed to kindlings [sic] and it was some time before the entire track was cleared.
While John Nieding and family were at church Sunday evening, some person or persons, presumably tramps, took the opportunity to enter the house and help themselves to all the eatables that could be found. An overcoat and other articles were taken. It is not known how they obtained entrance as no door or window was found open.
Some time Monday the living car of the Italians, who work on the L.S. & M.S. Ry. was broken into and food and clothing stolen. There has been an unusually large number of tranps begging around town of late and these depredations may well be laid at their door.
Can nothing be done to rid the town of this pest?
A reply in the case of Jerome A. Whetstone vs. the Lake Shore & Michigan Sothern [sic] Ry. was filed with County Clerk Hertlein.
Plaintiff is administrator o the estate of Peter Hermes. The reply denies the injury to Hermes was brought about the by the want of care of the defendant. The following assignment of cases was made by Judge Reed Monday: May 23, jury cases – Geo. Fisher [sic] vs. Village of Vermilion, money only. Marie Lyons vs. Lake Shore Electric Railway company et.al., money only. Frank Hart vs. the Lake Shore Electric Railway, appeal. Albert R. Schoewe, admn., vs. Charles Schoewe, et.al., money only. Julia Schoewe et.al., money only.
A wireless telegraph station is soon to be established in Elyria.
Vermilion has a new attraction. A large number of people are much better informed in regard to the latest methods of excavating and pipe laying The excavating machine was put to work Tuesday afternoon and the first joint in the pipe was calked about 53n o’clock Wednesday morning. Work has also been commenced on the sedimentation basin. [VV Ed. Note: I believe this article is describing the excavation work starting for the water-works along the river.]
The Empire Dramatic Co. will play a week’s engagement at the Vermilion Opera House commencing next Monday May 16. This company comes highly recommended by the press from the nearby towns. The opening play will be “Brother against Brother”.
Among other plays – East Lynn and Two Orphans – ‘With special scenery and costumes.
Monday night will be ladies’ Free night. One lady admitted free with each paid ticket. Prices with in reach of all. Children 15c. Adults 25c. No seats reserved.
The fishermen are not having the best of luck at present, the heavy catches of the early spring have greatly fallen off.
Tug Keystone arrived here May 9th from Ashtabula with her own lift of 1200 Blues.
Engineer Grieves of the keystone is on the sick list and Ed Kincaid will run the Keystone on her next trip up the lake.
The Haze is placing the channel buoys at this port today.
U.S. training ship, Michigan left her winter quarters today, in the Erie Basin and pulled out side to the Public Dock where she will fit out for her summer cruising.
Today a cut of one cent on fish takes effect and there is a big howl going up on all sides by the independent boat owners.
Yesterday and today the three and four boats yet fishing had from eighteen to twenty-five hundred each.
The government boat Haze arrived here May 6th and will place the channel buoys, Monday.
The tug Wilson picked up a scow today and towed it to port. Being a small scow 35 feet over all and about 10 feet beam, it is presumed to be a stone scow. It was bottom side up.
The fish stmr. E. Leosch of this port lately fishing our of Ashtabula ran into this port today with her two days fish consisting of 350 lbs., Herring.
The body of Jas. Brown of Pt. Clinton was washed ashore on Monday afternoon.
A foundation is being built on the hotel property on Exchange street and to the casual observer indications point that the Lake House will be moveed [sic] onto it. The present site of the hotel on Liberty street can then be used for a business block. Mrs. Fischer is evidentaly [sic] bent on making great improvements in his property. [VV Ed. Note: This is the first notice in the local paper indicating that George Fischer had purchased the Lake House Hotel on the southeast corner of Liberty and Division (Main) streets, and was intending to move it down the hill where it is currently (15/08/12) located. He, of course, renamed it after his children Maud and Elton.]
Mrs. Lucy Maddock was stricken with paralysis [VV Ed. Not: I believe that the term indicated a stroke.] on Tuesday and has been in a very precarious condition ever since. She is the mother of Mrs. Henry Pelton.
J.W. Risser, of Norwalk , promoter of a New Life Boat factory was in town Tuesday looking over a site for a factory.
Three new phones have been added to the Vermilion exchange since the directories have been issued: John Dickle, farm; Elmer Slater, farm; Fred S. Lawless, plumbing.
May 10. Birmingham was visited by quite a hail storm to-day, hail falling quite fast, about the size of peas.
Mr. McDowell was buried in the Cemetery here Friday. He had been living with his son Wallace at Henrietta Hill for some time. He was over ninety years old.
Mr. Penson is putting an addition on his house.
Cherries and pears early apples and strawberries are in blossom.
Mrs. George Clarey’s health is quite poor this spring.
The dog-killer is about. Take care of your pets. Sanders had a pet dog poisoned and others have lost dogs.
Mrs. Shaffer who attempted to commit suicide is some better and hopes are entertained of her recovery.
We thought spring had surely come. The gypsies have been here and the Automobiles puff, puff is heard frequently.
Nearly every day sees a number of young people, evidently students, strolling in the direction of Ghost Hollow, coming back laden with trophies from the woods.
The local telephone exchange now receives the weather report at about ten o’clock each day. If you want to know that the “Clerk of the weather” has in store for you. Call central.
At a meeting of the Board of education Monday evening, the following teachers were elected for the coming year:
Miss Kilbride, Room No. 1. Miss Anna Baxtine, Room No. 2. Miss Hattie Abell, Room No. 3. Mr. A. L. Irey, Room No. 5. Mr. J.C. Seemann Supt. And teacher of Room No. 6.
Commencement Friday evening June 3rd, Prof. J.G. Park of Ada, O., will deliver the class address. John O. Ortli’s orchestra will furnish the music.
Baccalaureate address by Rev. Geo. E. Merrill, at the Congregational Church Sunday evening May 29th.
The Vermilion Four Mill is now running full blast. C.E. Higgins is in charge.
Saturday the fire department was called to extinguish a blaze in the roof of Peter Hart’s residence. However the fire was extinguished readily before the department arrived. Very little damage was done.
There is again a great demand for houses in Vermilion. A large number could be utilized at once. Let the town grow.
Hmmmmmm....
"...suddenly, out of nowhere, the mad, white horse came rushing upon him."
CAPT. WM. AUSTIN: Before Vermillion was Vermillion (with 2 Els) or even Vermilion (with one El), came here from Connecticut a man named Wm. Hoddy. In 1808 Mr. H. built a cabin near the mouth of the river that is said to have been the very first house built in what would eventually become Vermilion, O. His work done, he then returned to Connecticut on foot to apparently fetch his family. Whether or not he ever got there - or if he ever returned - is unknown. Precise histories can sometimes be precisely vague. But that being said, instances of similar appearances and disappearances of early American pioneers are hardly unusual. It was, after all, a wilderness.
By 1809 a half dozen more families had come to settle in the area. Among them was a gentleman named Capt. Wm. Austin. Though not included in some lists of Vermilion sea captains, Captain Austin may very well have been the very first.
Whether it was just his nature or an attitude cultivated from his years as an officer aboard ships that sailed the world’s oceans, he is depicted by some historians as being a stern, but fair, man. On one hand he liked to brag about having held the man who would become the hero of the Battle of Lake Erie – Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry - on his knee back in Rhode Island when Perry was but a babe. And on the other, he could get a little hot when some dolt wrongly assumed he could get the Captain to ease up on farm work by flatteringly calling him “clever”. Austin responded to the attempted snow job by angrily shouting, “Clever? Clever? So is the devil so long as you please him.” [Note: It would appear that “birdbrainism” is not a contemporary social development.]
Sometime around the year 1812 Captain Austin and his sons John, George, William, and Jedediah built what was probably the first boat ever built and launched in the area. It was a small schooner they christened “Friendship II”. During what some historians call the “War of the Peninsula” the Captain used the vessel to carry members of the Ohio militia to the fighting.
It may be helpful to understand that the aforementioned war was not actually a “war” but was rather a battle. In fact, it was the very first Ohio battle in the War of 1812. It took place along the Marblehead coast, and lasted from late September to the first day of October of that year ending in a draw. When the dust settled forty Indians, including several chiefs, and eight Americans had lost their lives. Ironically, the decisive battle of that war would take place only a year later and a stone’s throw away with Commodore Perry, who by all accounts Captain Austin knew well as a child, orchestrating the American victory at Put-In-Bay.
Setting that aside, one of the more intriguing things about Capt. Austin is his purported visions as a sailor. The story is that never during all his years on the ocean was he visited by any misfortune. And the reason given for this was that just prior to any potential misadventure he envisioned / dreamt of a mad white horse rushing toward him with its mouth agape.
One of the more graphic examples of the Captain’s psychic powers is said to have occurred while onboard his schooner near (where else?) Put-In-Bay. He was transporting some businessmen to Detroit. It was described as being a bright autumn day. While standing at the rail overlooking a rather placid Lake Erie, suddenly, out of nowhere, the mad, white horse came rushing upon him. Against the protestations of his passengers, who thought he had lost his proverbial “marbles”, he ordered the boat tied up at the island until further notice.
By sundown a terrific gale crossed over the lake. The passengers were amazed that the weather could change so drastically in so short a time. But more amazing was the fact that when the sun rose the following morning there was a foot of snow on deck.
The veracity of that last tale is, of course, unknown. But for a number of reasons it really doesn’t matter. With or without a mad white horse Captain Austin still deserves to be recognized for his contributions to the making of the town that came to be known as “The Village of Lake Captains”. And if nothing else, he certainly was a very lively character of the yesteryear.
In 1921 a 14-year-old had an idea while working on his father's Idaho farm. Philo realized an electron beam could scan a picture in horizontal lines, reproducing the image almost instantaneously. It would prove to be a critical breakthrough, towards electronic television.
THE FIRE-LANDS: I found the following information re: the early inhabitants of our area to be extremely informative. Methinks you will also.
I am getting better at transcribing these passages so there are fewer mistakes. But I like to read as I go - and sometimes I fill in the blanks. So tread carefully this trail through yesteryear.
The following series will take thee to the townships south of Vermilion. Methinks you'll find this history quite fascinating.
In presenting to the public a history of the township of New London we regard as proper to preface our work by a list of the original owners.[VV Ed. Note: I have omitted the portion of the text with their names etc.]
The township very naturally took the name of New London from the fact that N. Douglass, N. Richards, and the Ledyards, were the principal, or largest original proprietors, or sufferers; and they resided in New London, Connecticut. The name of the township has never been changed since its first settlement.
The surface of the township is generally level, though, in many portions in the vicinity of the water courses, it is quite rolling, and other portions may be classed as gently undulating. It was originally, with the exception of as all portion in the fourth sectional known as the cranberry marsh, all densely covered by timber. The principal varieties of wood were black walnut; elm of several varieties, rock, red and white; maple – hard and soft; beech; oak – white, yellow and black; basswood, whitewood, hickory, white and black ash, cherry, dogwood and willow. There has been no particular change in the forest, except the almost entire disappearance, by use. The soil is very productive – well adapted to grass, small grains, corn, vegetables and berries – clayey, or marl, with a slight preponderance of the clay, and, in the third section, sandy; while rich, deep muck, is abundant in the fourth section. It is about equally well adapted to the dairy products, hay, grain or stock raising. Fruits of several kinds and varieties do well. In short, for fertility and productiveness, very few, if any town on the Fire-lands, can surpass this. At an early day in the settlement of the township, quite a large portion of the Third and fourth sections were deemed as low land and swampy; now, all or nearly all is drained and is tillable.
The streams running through the town are two. One running northwardly through the fourth and third sections, is formed by Skellenger’s creek, Knowlton’s creek and Carpenter’s creek, uniting with the Vermilion river in the township of Clarksfield, as its east branch; and Rawson’s creek, uniting with other small streams and making east creek, a west branch of Black river. The various creeks and streams are fed by many springs, which render this section of the county quite well watered.
When the first white men settled in New London the black bears and wolves were the most formidable; deer, raccoon, otter, sable and gray fox, wild turkeys, beaver, wild cat, hedgehog and fishers, or pekans abounded to a limited extent. [VV Ed. Note: a Pekan is large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal.] The deer and wild turkeys became far more abundant about 1822, evidently coming into the town from the east: and the wolves appeared to follow the deer.
Excerpts from: The Fire Lands, Comprising Huron and Erie Counties, Ohio; W.W. Williams - 1879 - Press of Leader Printing Company, Cleveland, Ohio
OLD CARDBOARD CARTOON: I found this old cardboard cartoon buried in an old cabinet at the print shop. It's an editorial type cartoon, and I am inclined to think that it was something my father liked. The commentary is as relevant today as it was when this thing was printed back in the late 1940s or early 1950s.
It's just an interesting piece of Americana.
- I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult?
- If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket then giving Fido only two of them.
- In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him.
- No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
- Outside of a dog, a book is probably man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- People that hate cats will come back as mice in their next life.
- Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great Dane.
- Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this.
- We wonder why the dogs always drink out of our toilets, but look at it from their point of view: why do humans keep peeing into their water bowls?
- When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
- Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
ZIP AGAIN THIS WEEK: This week no podcast again. I continue to think about this section of Views - looking for a better way to present these videos.
Persons interested in the history of the Lake Shore Electric Railway (which was the subject of a recent past podcast series) - "the greatest electaric railway system on the planet" may want to go to Amazon.com and purchase a book called "Images of Rail - Lake Shore Electric Railway". It was put together by Thomas J. Patton with the help of my friends Dennis Lamont and Albert Doane. It'd make a nice gift.
Also, please note that all the video (MP4 and MOV) podcasts (when used) are done in the "Quicktime MP4 / MOV" formats. If you don't have a "Quicktime" it's easy to find and free to download.
LOCAL ANNOUNCEMENTS: After giving it much thought this link has been "put-down". During the last year most of the folks who used to use this page as a bulletin board have acquired their own and, consequently, no longer need this forum from "Views". I have, however, kept links (in the links section) to Larry Hohler's "Hope Homes" in Kenya - and to Bette Lou Higgins' Eden Valley Enterprises sites. They are historically and socially relevant projects. I suggest that you visit these sites on a regular basis to see "what's shakin'".
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Vol.10, Issue 09 - May 12, 2012
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