OPENING MOMENTS
SHOPTALK: The pic on the shop desk this week is an oldie of a crowd at the entrance of the Crystal Beach Amusement Park taken about 1910-12. I have used it on a postcard sold at the museum – ergo the “Line up in a straight circle” comment at the bottom. When I worked with SBH youngsters back in the 1980s one of the teachers used to say that to his students when they were milling around in the gym. They all stood around looking confused until they figured out he was just kidding.
Anyway, this is a neat pic.
On my home desk this week is a pic of a pic. It was taken at a function in Exchange Park several years ago called “Remembering Old Vermilion.” It was sponsored by the Vermilion Area Archival Society and was (at least as I saw it) a very successful event. I find that Vermilion has very many history fans.
During this event and one other my wife (Georgia) and I did a number of video personal history recordings in the park. And I glad we did them. Some of the folks we interviewed have, since, passed away.
We will do more…
PHOTOSHOPPING: Photoshopping is among some of the things I do at the museum when I am asked. This past week I did some interesting with a photo that was taken of a group of five people on a cruise ship.
A lady asked if I could make several 8x10 portraits of her and her late husband sans the other three persons. It was tricky because they were standing on a stairway and were very close together. I had to remove them from the pic and place them on a different stairway, which required finding a different, but similar background.
It took some time; but I succeeded.
The process is ultra time consuming, but very interesting, work. If I charged by the hour the resulting photograph would be costly. My intention here is to gather experience with the idea that I’ll be able to work faster when I know better how to proceed with any given photograph.
I’ve done a good deal of photo reconstruction / repair work and have found that in some cases the filter software available to me can make a nice photo that, perhaps, has been ruined by water into a new work of art.
CHANGES: Any major mistakes I make with the page this week will have to wait till late Sunday or Monday for correction. That because later today my webpage provider Yahoo Small Business is changing over to Aabaco Small Business - and while changes are being made I will not be able to access my control panel. The control panel is where I keep all my files / webwork. The pages will remain accessible. I just won’t be able to work with them for a time.
I will have other things to change when they’re done. I hope to get them changed and workable as soon as I can. If I don’t survive this change - it’s been nice knowing ya…
MUSEUM SCHEDULE: Beginning now the museum will be open six days a week from 11 AM to 3 PM. We will be closed on Sundays and Holidays. We are located at 727 Grand Street in Vermilion across the street from Vermilion's historic E&R Church. The museum is open Monday thru Saturday from 11 AM to 3 PM. A small admission donation of $3 (for adults) is requested. Children accompanied with an adult will be admitted free. For Special Tours call: 440-967-4555.
We are closed on Sundays and holidays.
Private tours during those hours and during the evening can be arranged by calling the museum, or stopping in to see us.
FIVE-OH-ONE-CEE-THREE: The museum is a 501(c)(3) organization. Consequently, all donations and memberships for the museum are tax deductible. This is retroactive to November of 2011.
Memberships for the VERMILION NEWS PRINT SHOP MUSEUM are always 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 Museum727 Grand Street Vermilion, Ohio 44089440.967.4555.Cell:440.522.8397
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Historically,
REV. BIDLE: There are still a few folks left on the planet from Vermilion who remember Reverend Jim Bidle. I was doing some genealogy research the other day in one of the few old morgue NEWS files a few days ago and happened upon the piece pictured. I like this little article because it provides us with a little background on Jim that some may be unaware of.
Rev. Bidle was in Vermilion several years back when the church (i.e. now the UCC Congregational) building on State Street held its 50th anniversary celebration ceremonies (2007). He really seemed to be the same guy we all knew way back then. He even looks much the same. He now lives in Michigan.
Among other things, he talked about coming to be interviewed for the job at the old Congregational Church on Division / Main Street. After then pastor Reverend English and several other church members interviewed him life-long church member Presdee Morgan then interviewed him.
Morgan asked him if he was a Mason. When told him that he was Morgan recommended that he be hired.
And he was.
AT THE CORNER OF 60 & SOUTH ST: I’ve been wanting to do this for a number of years. I find the changes that’ve taken place on this corner since Roscoe took this wide-angle pic back in the 1930s fascinating.
Some of the trees, for instance, are gone. Yet, some that were quite young when the old pic have matured quite nicely.
Both houses on the right side of the street (the old Howell residence and the Goetz house next door) still look much the same. The house on the opposite corner was built back in the 1950s. But the Maurer home behind it – as well as the old Koontz home – appear much the same today.
I’ve often been mystified by the fact that when one looks down the road to the south from this vantage point the road appears to be so flat. It’s very hard to tell (both then and now) that the road rises some when it meets the old Nickel Plate Railroad tracks up the street.
This is among several of rather confusing street corners in Vermilion for persons unfamiliar with out town.
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...
The Sterling Machine And Stamping Company, one of the defendants in the case of J.L. Zesiger and others against the Duplex Stamping Co. has filed its answer and cross petition. Therein it states that, for a valuable consideration it is assigned to it a lease originally executed by the Duplex Stamping Co., to one C. M. Ross, covering said company’s grounds, plant and machinery running for one year from July 6, 1907, and containing provisions for its extension for a further period of 10 years. In addition the defendant states that it has been in possession of the premises since September 12, 1907 and wishes to continue in the possession and to take advantage of the privilege of renewal and that since the defendants asks to be protected in its rights.
Loie G. Matt has filed her answer and cross petition in the suit for divorce brought against her by Lester E. Matt, in which she asks that his petition be dismissed because of extreme cruelty, assault consorting with depraved characters. She claims that she has the last 10 months lived in fear of bodily harm. And that her husband has failed to support her or their child. Further, Mrs. Mott Matt states at the time of marriage she was possessed of $400 in her own right, and that her husband took it and purchased in his own name certain real estate in Huron; that he is the owner of this and other property and in his business of Carpenter and contractor he is capable of making at least $1200 a year. She consequently asks that her husband be restrained from disposing of his property, that her $400 in interest be declared a lien upon it; that the court decreed her a just sum as alimony and that all household goods be given into her possession. Judge Reed issued restraining order pending trial.
Dr. J.P. Esch has brought suit against the Lakeshore Electric Company on appeal from Justice Pearl's court. The petition states that plaintiff conducts what is known as the Esch–Wright farm west of Huron, and raises large quantities of poultry, etc.; that when the defendant was given a right of way across said farm it was on the special understanding that said right-of-way should be fenced in. This the defendant has failed to do and the cars have consequently killed a number of shoats, a cow, a sheep and a peacock. In addition the roadbed has not been properly equipped with culverts for drainage purposes, and some 2 acres of land have been damaged by being flooded. The action is for $151.54.
The handing down by the Supreme Court lately a decision in the case brought by an Ottawa County fishermen to test the constitutionality of the fish and game law, has had the effect of dismissing from the docket of some 15 cases of like nature brought in Erie County. The court found for the state, deciding that the provision of the law whereby the nets and boats of offending fishermen were declared confiscated was constitutional, and judge read accordingly dismissed from the docket the cases mentioned. They were brought by the Post Fish Company, Jacob Lay and others, the Sandusky Fish Company, Henry Bickley, Henry Lay, August Boehmer, H.C. Payson, William Heyman, C.H. Martin, John Leidorf, Martin Leidheiser, James Hamilton, Fred Driscoll, Joseph Dewhurst, George Bauman and Mrs. M.B. Parsons.
In the action brought by B.P. Bond against D. Thompson and others, the court overruled the motion to dismiss and gave the parties three weeks in which to file their petition.
Little Helen, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Alheit died quite suddenly Friday morning, aged seven years and six months. Funeral services were held from the M. E. Church Monday afternoon, the pastor, Rev. Brown assisted by Rev. Merrill officiating. The parents have the sympathy of the entire community.
The three months old child of Mr. and Mrs. Bond died Thursday. Funeral services held Saturday, Rev. J.W.H. Brown officiating.
Friday night about suppertime someone passing Debbie eBay lease plumbing display room in Englebry block discovered that the lamp had set fire to the wall and it was blazing up merrily. An alarm was sounded and the department responded promptly but a few pails of water extinguished the fire. The damage was slight. The wall was badly scorched as also was Mr. Bailey's desk and a few papers destroyed. Just how the blaze was started is not known as the lamp stood away from the wall.
Born – to Mr. and Mrs. William Schriner Thursday evening a boy.
Miss Loie Cole is seriously ill at her home in Oberlin.
Miss Lulu Dute is suffering from a severe attack of pneumonia.
Mrs. Lawless is again on the sick list.
Conrad Hagerman who recently moved to the home of his son west of Lorain is reported quite ill.
Martin Ruth had the end of his little finger bitten off while on hitching a horse Thursday.
Monday Mrs. Jones more fell downstairs and seriously sprained her ankle.
Born – to Mr. and Mrs. Ben Lindsley of Brownhelm a son on Monday the 23rd.
J.A. Bean died Saturday night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dute. Pneumonia was the cause.
The day-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Standen died Saturday night.
A 12-pound girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. Gottfried Bartlome Wednesday. This is the 13th and all are at home.
The merchants are experiencing a great deal of trouble just at present caused by thieves breaking packages while in transit and helping themselves to the contents. Lake Shore officials have been unable to catch the guilty ones so far.
The schools closed Friday for a two-week vacation.
The Swastika club gave a dance and the town hall Friday evening.
[Called svastika in Sanskrit, it is a symbol of auspiciousness in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. It was not associated with Germany’s Nazi Party until the 1930s.]
Mrs. Lewis Kuhl is recovering from a recent illness.
Ms. Alma Warnke attended the funeral of Mrs. Block at Toledo Wednesday.
The scholars of Dist. No. 4 are having two weeks vacation.
Charles Richter is cutting wood for B.N. Goodsell at present.
Little Ruthie Shoop spent Saturday with her grandma Shoop.
E.P. Brundage is breaking a pair of black colts.
Mrs. John Lee is improving rapidly and is able to sit up a while every day.
Mrs. O.G. Jump was in Vermillion Friday to attend the exercises at the high school.
$1.20 is the average cost per month for the gasoline [sic] used in lighting the church for 1907. We have 11 mantles of 500 candlepower each.
Mr. Morgan, our organist, desires to say his "Thank you" or Christmas present from the choir. It is always a delight to take part in any expression of appreciation of our faithful organist.
[This is in reference to Frederick C. Morgan who played the organ in the church for over 60 years. He began playing at age 12 and played until his death in 1929. That may have been a record.]
Rachel Ann Stamler was born January 8, 1830, in New York City. She was married to Ethan Alger at Berlin Heights June 21, 1857. Six children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Alger. Three died in infancy. The surviving children are: Melbourne S. and Ethan A. Alger, of Lorain and Mrs. Laura L Earick, of Claidoen [sic]. Mrs. Alger united with the Congregational Church, of Vermilion March 7, 1886. Vermilion was her home for 20 years. Some seven years ago she removed to Lorain. Her health has been poor for several years. Sunday morning December 22, 1907, Mrs. Alger entered the homeland of the soul. Funeral services at Parkside Chapel, Lorain, Tuesday, burial at Berlin Heights. The services were conducted by Rev. George, E Merrill of Vermilion, and a quartette [sic] from the Congregational choir here sang.
Paul Leimbach of the OSU his home for the holidays.
Will Parsons came home from the season work on the lakes Monday.
Capt. Blattner arrived home Tuesday.
Geo Rathbun returned from the lakes Saturday for the winter.
Capt. Full and H.W. Haber arrived home from the lakes Christmas morning.
Mrs. J.N. Sennhenn has returned home from the Lakeside hospital and is getting along fine.
Mr. and Mrs. Pearl Roscoe and daughter and Mr. C Roscoe were guests of Mrs. R's sister at Lorain Christmas.
The teachers and pupils at both town and township are enjoying a two week vacation from school duties.
William H bacon age 30 a well-known young man of Clyde died last week Tuesday from lucoythemas [sic] [leukemia].
Miss Clara Wakefield of Hiram is spending the Holidays at home.
Miss Edna Barrows a teacher in the Lorain Public schools as a guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A.D. Baumhart for the week.
John Parsons who has been spending the past few months at the soldiers home, Sandusky, spent a few days this week with his family here. He is looking well and says he feels much better than when he left here.
Mr. George Cooper suffered a stroke of paralysis at his home in Brownhelm Monday morning. He is recovering as fast as can be expected.
Mrs. Helen Johnson had the misfortune to break one of the bones of her wrist one day last week. It was a couple of days before she realized how badly she was hurt and consequently the fracture was not reduced as soon as it should've been.
Early Christmas morning the ringing of the fire bell brought everybody out but the blaze was soon out. Sparks from the chimney set fire to the roof of John Knott's residence on State Street. Very little damage resulted.
George Ackerman of Perkins Township aged 82, died at the county infirmary Monday night. A widow and three sons survived. He was a peculiar man and lived on his little place in Perkins until arrested through the efforts of the Humane Society for cruelty to his horse.
The Maudelton hotel will be open next year for business, and if plans are not changed it will be opened on New Year's Day. Vermilion has been during the past year without sufficient hotel accommodations as the Lakeside Inn has changed hands would still be still worse off unless the Maudelton is opened as stated.
Mrs. George Pelton visited at Florence a few days this week.
Ms. Cora Brown to spending holidays with her parents.
Mrs. Lauren Washburn was in Lorain and Elyria on Tuesday.
Mr. George Taylor accidentally shot his finger off last Friday.
Quite a number visited school Friday afternoon. A very good program was rendered which they all enjoyed.
Hmmmmmm....
VERMILION’S PUBLIC SQUARE (A HISTORY LESSONS): The accompany photograph is a partial view of a map of Vermillion Village that was printed in a 19th century Almanac for Erie County. Vermilion expatriate Dana Buell Wheeler donated it to the Vermilion News Print Shop (History) Museum several years ago.
Among other things the map illustrates the area our town’s architects designated to be the “Public Square”. Under the thick black line on the left of the designated square area is Lot #130. That was the lot number for the land purchased by representatives of the local Presbyterian Church congregation back in 1838 – the site where they built the first house of worship in the then fledgling village of Vermilion, Ohio. Phoebe Goodell Judson, daughter of the minister of that church in 1838, in her book “A Pioneers Search for a Promised Land” remembered, “We attended the same church and same district school. It was ‘Hopkins choice’ [sic] for there was only one of each in town. These two buildings stood side by side.” The school she was referring to was one of the town’s first schoolhouses (District #1) that apparently sat where the town hall building now stands.
The Township Hall was, of course, built in 1883 on the site of the old school. And in 1886 the church building next door was deemed to be in failing condition and was subsequently razed. [Note: The name of the church had officially changed to that of the First Congregational church in 1868.] During the construction of the new church the congregation met in the Evangelical and Reformed church. And two years later (January of 1888) a new building had been erected on the same site.
As is obvious, Division (now Main) Street did not cut through the square when this map was drawn. When, and perhaps even why, it was accomplished is problematic. It is likely that neither church nor school had been located on their respective lots when this particular map was drawn. If so, it may follow that after they were built (c.1838) paths to either facility were made from both the north and south to accommodate scholars and worshipers; and as a consequence that path became very familiar to locals and they simply considered that path to be an extension of Division Street. Given the fact that none of the streets were paved in those years such an assumption is hardly far-fetched.
Apparently Division Street had once run – or had been designed to run from the Village limits / Haber Road in the South and ended at Ohio Street. Persons familiar with the town will recognize that there seems to be a good deal of open land behind the buildings / homes on the block between Mill Street (south) and South Street (north) – between State (west) and Exchange Streets (east). The expanse must have been where Division Street was originally intended to be located. In fact, the name “Division” appears to have been used because the road, at the time, actually halved the town. There were four streets east and four west of it.
In any case, it is obvious that both sides of Main Street in that area are actually part of the original Public Square – not just the area now called Victory Park. This explains, what may seem for some to be, the rather odd reason that the property in front of the buildings on Main Street between Ohio Street and the railroad (i.e. the old town hall, church and duplex) is city property. It is also obvious that our ancestors never saw a time when commercial enterprise would locate on the properties adjacent to it. And as Shakespeare’s Hamlet would say, “…ay, there’s the rub.” There’s the rub indeed.
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.
…Wine cellars on Middle Bass Isle. There is located on the land of William Rehberg, Esq., west point of Floral Isle, the Toledo and Lake Erie Boating and Fishing Association. They have a commodious club surrounded by cottages owned by the members, where they come and spend the summer with their families. Post office established in l864; Andrew Wehrle, Esq., postmaster.
Isle St. George, alias North Bass, is four miles north of Put-in-Bay, one and one half miles north of Middle Bass, and lies directly in route of steamers plying to and from Detroit and Sandusky. Roswold Nichols, Esq., was the first permanent settler on the Island. In 1844 he moved to the island. In 1845 he took a lease of the island. Dr. C. DeKay Townsend made his first trip to the islands for that purpose. It took a plump week to make the round trip. No steamboats in those days. A Mr. Demmon, of Rochester, New York, owned the island and sold it, including Rattlesnake Isle, to Horace Kelley, for twenty-eight hundred dollars. 1849, George W. Wires, Esq., purchased of Mr. Kelley one hundred and thirty-two acres, at five dollars an acre. Same year, Roswold Nichols bought of Kelly one hundred and fourteen acres, at five dollars per acre. 1853, Simon Fox and Peter Fox purchased the balance of the island, five hundred acres, for which they paid three thousand dollars. 1858 and 1859, they set the first grapes, about one acre, which proved a perfect success. Still the island moved slow until 1860, when the interest in the fruit business induced Dr. Townsend, J. K. Drake, E. Kinney, George H. Smith, W. D. Lindsly, Charles K. Minor, Davis Smith, Esq., H. G. Fox, Esq., to invest largely, and go to work with the earlier inhabitants to develope [sic] the latent wealth of the island. The result is four hundred and five acres of vineyard, viz: two hundred and five acres of Catawba; one hundred and thirteen acres of Delaware; thirty-four acres of Concord; ten acres of Schraidt's seedling; ten acres Norton's Virginia; fifteen acres Clintons; ten acres Ive’s Seedling, Wilder, Salem and Iona. In 1878, one million pounds of grapes were gathered. In 1859, Captain H. G. Fox purchased Rattlesnake Isle, containing sixty acres, for one thousand dollars. He planted one acre of Catawba grapes. Afterward he sold the island to David Hammond, Esq., who resides on the island—the only family.
Post office established on Isle St. George, in 1873; Peter Fox, postmaster.
In 1871, the people of the island built a solid, double arched wine cellar, fifty by one hundred feet. Including the structure over the cellars, this will store one hundred and twenty-five thousand gallons of wine. At the present time grape buyers from abroad purchase all the grapes raised, principally for wine. The grapes raised on this island command a better price than those raised elsewhere, because of their superior quality. The perfect drainage, fine elevation above the lake, and properties in the soil, gives this island a decided advantage over all other localities.
The educational privileges are represented by our public school system. The first schoolteacher was Miss Marion Dutcher, in 1857.
Isle St. George is set off by the legislature into a separate precinct, some forty votes. The steamboat accommodation is perfect. The steamboat "Jay Cooke," G. A. Brown, master, makes daily trips between Sandusky and the Islands, lying at Put-in- Bay nights; steamboat "Alaska," L. B. Goldsmith, master, daily trips from Detroit to Sandusky, touching at the Islands each way; steamboat "Chief Justice Waite," E. McNelley, master, through the business season, daily from Toledo to Put-in-Bay. We must not slight the "Golden Eagle," Fred. Magle master. She is the early bird, and late, always on the wing; and the steamboat "B. B. Ferris, Captain Freyensee, from Put-in-Bay, via the Peninsula route to Sandusky, daily.
There is not another rural district in any State, or country, that will compare with the improvements here, that depends on the product of the soil for a business. Put-in-Bay township, as a summer resort, take it all in all, has no equal. The sanitary conditions are very fine. Of one thing there remains no doubt, and that is, although there is nothing striking or grand in the scenery of these islands, yet, taken altogether, they form a scene of surpassing loveliness and beauty. There is always a quiet, dream-like stillness resting on the calm water, in the shade of the trees and vines, so much in contrast with the bustle and excitement of city life, that it comes to the excited brain like a sweet rest to the traveler, at the close of a long and toilsome journey.
But here, on this Peninsula shore of Lake Erie, and upon its islands, the grape flourishes in unrivaled luxuriance, and even the banks of the Ohio, the first stronghold of the Catawba, have been forced to yield a precedence to its northern rival. Many crops are useful, but few, in. themselves, beautiful. Digging potatoes, for example, can never figure on the poet's page. But everything connected with a vineyard is full of beauty, whether it be the green leaves and twining tendrils of the spring, the bunches slowly turning in the hot midsummer sun, the first picking in early fall, when the long aisles are filled with young girls, making merry over their work, or the last in-gathering of the Indian summer, when the late ripening bunches, hanging on the trellises, shine through the vineyards in red-purple gleams, as far as the eye can reach. Nothing can be more lovely than the islands in this golden season. Dionysius himself would have loved them. The water is blue and tranquil, for even in a gale the fury does not enter here among the land-locked harbors. On all sides stand the islets, some large, some small, some vine-clad and inhabited, others rocky and wild. The trees glow with color, and sweeping down to the water's edge, send a brilliant reflection far out from shore. And over all is spread the dreamy haze of Indian summer.
AMAZING: As previously mentioned I was doing some genealogy work this week and while do so I came across the above article. A drive-thru bank service: Who’d a thunk it? This little article appeared in the Sandusky Star-Register on April 12, 1930.
When one considers the way many of us do banking today this drive-thru thing seems to have come; been developed; and is gone already. There are probably some youngsters around today who see such service as archaic.
Amazing.
Jack had the toughest time of his life. First, he got angina pectoris and then arteriosclerosis. Just as he was recovering from these, he got tuberculosis, pneumonia and phthisis. Then he got hypodermics. Appendicitis was followed by tonsillectomy. These gave way to aphasia and hypertrophic cirrhosis. Jack completely lost his memory for a while. He had diabetes and indigestion, as well as gastritis, rheumatism, lumbago and neuritis.
It was the hardest spelling test he ever took.
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'".
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.
Another great book with Vermilion Roots is, "Grandma's Favorites: A Compilation of Recipes from MARGARET SANDERS BUELL by Amy O'Neal, ELIZABETH THOMPSON and MEG WALTER (May 2, 2012). This book very literally will provide one with the flavor of old Vermilion. And ye can also find it at Amazon.com. Take a look.
MARY WAKEFIELD BUXTON'S LATEST BOOK "The Private War of William Styron" is available in paper back for $15.00 with tax and can be purchased locally at Buxton and Buxton Law Office in Urbanna, ordered from any book store, Amazon.com or Brandylane Publishing Company. A signed, hard back edition may be purchased from Mrs. Buxton directly for $30.00 by writing her at Box 488, Urbanna, VA 23175 and including $6.00 for tax, postage and packaging.
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Vol.13, Issue 36 - November 14, 2015
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