Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 157, Hammond, Lake County, 24 December 1917 — Page 2

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THE TIMES Monday, December 24. 1917. HHaMS9! !Hff HL'UJk.sJ.i 111

HAPPEMJfOS OF A DAY I LAKE COISTVS LIVELY CAPITAL

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ppropriaf e Xmas oti'l'Cii"5 worp nhSrved fit the diffeienl church' in frown point on Sundav. .1. A Ayling iniducl'J services at the Jail which were greatly enjoyed l.y the inmates. The Sunday school will have their erc',e. on Xmas eve. Mr. and Mrs. John Collins tre Fpenrl)'ig verl w-cks at th AtinnW farm riitrinr the absence of Mr. and Mrs. t 'hr!? Aia:ik m Florid i. M:.se Klsa. Helen and Acne Knaps I r home frrm th Illinois I'niversity r. r ihe holidays. Mr. Walter Whitehead lef; on i.ir-ii'-dny for W heeler. Win., where sh spend the holiday" with her parents'. F fc'. Farley has accepted a position with the Letz Manufacturing Co. and commenced work there n Monday. Xr'.hur Fops, v ho enlisted in the I'. S. -r.v ice !at spring. Is at home for the ms hnliria.v? wi'h hi? father, M r. John Fos No more confirmation of the new from !ndianpol regarding the proP"d war conf'-rencf of the l.aUe tVunty Defense Council ha been received

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Absolutely Removes Indigestion. Druggists refund money if it fails. 25c

nurd at one time was

Cniv ernu y of 'hii :ico. Mr. Fertncr l,a been in and is expri'ted to arrive this inoininj;.

student at til

New Vol's in Chicago

GARY MAN ' PAROLED:

m rri.nn IV; m M-s. .1. C. tiibh i s having lveen confined Main street since lest

on de st.-k to her home on Monday.

Major J. A. 1'mplehy arrived home from Fort Sill. OkIh . on tin da y and will spend the holidavs with hi. family in Crow, n Point. The knhki ln,l soldier are uiie -otn-tnon on the streets of frown Point, ninny of Up bovs being home on furlough for the holiday1. Among them aie Roy Tanner of Tlat tiesburg. Mis.. Will Prow n. Fred Horst. Ralph Kramrr. Anliur l'Viis Win Thompson of the Ireat Lake Training School is h1o visitor in I'rown Point. Phileinus Weal bay of rainier had 'he misfortune to fail and break hi lg in two places 1a-t week and i no v. confined n, the ; iI.d.imI I !o-'it;i 1. i 'has. I'orhm. who ha he' n t.mplo.v "d in farming in "Iseonsin. ' ha tetumed io Crown Point and 1 a guest ax the Cndwell hotel or the holiday. Mr. and Mr. Cyril TTavden have returned from Flpm, 111 where they attended the w edding antiiv erary of a tela t i e.

NEW REGULATIONS FBfi FLOUR AMUR SALE County Food Administrators Are Notified; Retail And Wholesale.

(Special to The Times.) TNDIANAPUl.I.S. INO.. L'ee. 2i. New r" ulat ion covernlng t!o sale and die-

tribution of flour and sugar were

ceived hero today from the federal food

administration by if K. Barnard, ptate ood administrator. .The new rules Include the following Retail 5ale of sugar in ritie and towns in amounts of not to exceed two to five pound at a time. Farmer may buy in quantities of five to ten pounds ai. a lime. Flour, retail in tuantities of one-eighth to one-fourth barrel lots a' a time to resident hf cities and towns. Not more than one-half barrel at a time to be sold to farmers. Wholesalers are not. to deliver to any one retailer more tban 1.000 pounds vf u ar at a time, and not attempt to (ret around that regulation by delivering on back orders. They are to guard against duplication of orders, and no sugar is to go into a community in exoess of the

Rid the Skin of disfignrfng blemishes, by quickly purifying trie blood, improving the cir dilation, and regulating the habits with

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taraMt 5!e of Any Meoicm ra tk WorSaL baii avaovaera. In boaaa. 10c. 2Sa.

.factual current needs. All advertising

1 or sugar ana o. rier y!rnm cum

ulate demands are forbidden. Tin new Instruction were sent to all county food administrators at once. While the previous order limiting the quantity of supar to three pounds a month per capita still stands, the new regulations are to jrovern the amount which may be ?o!d at one time.

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SANTA IS WARRING FOR THE ALLIES

none to war on the side of the Allies. You mav not have heard of it. hut 1 de- j c'arod war m the Kaiser risht after J Die 1'iuied States went in. Strata Claud I

land is n a war footing. 'Hut let me tell you about it. My Roins to war is a little different from a nation koIhk to war. Santa Claus beTPngs t the whole wide world, and be, not supposed to have any enemies. So 1 want you ,! explain, w lien yovl w rite votir .itory for liie I'nite.l Fres. thai I have gone to war against a THIN';, and not against any BOPY. That Tlli.N'i; is KAlSKItISM and PitFSS-

3 7 fo More For Your-Money

Get the Genuine

HOME FOR KTMBIcakarawquinine

CHRISTMAS TREE AT NORTHERN STATES . INSURANCE OFFICES

Gov. Goodrich Gives G. B. Henderson Nice Xmas Prssent.

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Jefferson t "fori on torv

2 vi-ats of ais-e. i horn- miliary lor proi'iist.s' th.it the

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No advance in price for tht 20-year-old remedy JSc for 24 tablets Some raid tablet now 30c for 21 tablet a PiRured on proportionate coat per tabiet, you aave V',c when you buy

Hill a turn oia in 24 houri grip m 3 days - Money bare if it faila. 2 Tablets for 2Sc. At any Druj Store

Xearins lh lose of the g year of it existence. the N Slates life Insurance Company,

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peace with all the woild again-

'ileantiine vou musin't get the Idea that I'm groins t. liglit the little oiii! in Inns itu.l iru N. They i nn't help v. ha;V Ii'ipti'-ned and i'rt tillniK orders

for their sto. kini;1 .ui.-st the same a ISMtl'.

"And thai." went on Santa t'lau. 'explain the diilervnee vou see M'.tre this vear vv e have turmd 1 he iriiles

and mi'.fs of big slelthbells 1 used t

use en ihe leindier over to the men ' nrtsent bed it to the patrol hoard wilh who make the big (.mis for the Allies, i the result that Henderson, was Riven his J I'll get along this Near with just a few I liberty Saturday. 1 little bell for the reindeer to jingle Henderson is a mechanical engineer i

And there were tons of unnecessary , aid he made himself us-eful and

April t'tl. intf Henderson, und

inf kiemo. ..f li.(uo--. i.,o; a pHir of pauls! a 'i d a coat" out of a dry goods store in J !ary owned by Jacob Szold and lolph;

, I Rwmok. The c!inli.. went valued at $"p. ! In June ilende,,,n was sentenced bv '

Judge ileite;- to serve from one to eight ' ais in Ji u. rsi i, flir his thei r. !-! cently Atpjrny H. F. tlranrer. lhiid-f

! t Pi-son's law f t-r got up A petition and

THE TIES' FINANCIAL com

leather in their harness, great chunk '(if at Jefferson Hie by taking: charge of it. and I have sent that in to be ? structural Work and supervising 'he made into saddles and bridles and bej t s bu iWm g of an addition to the instjt,;and shoes for the oldiers. .lion. Ilia record there wa excel), ut. "All my family of little Santa Clauses! He is unmarried. are goins to get along vjith'the very; i simplest presents this year. .No expen- j To pr..t h- orin

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siv tos or things like that. They can have just as good a time with things that don't lake so much money and material. "Te bovs and girls and their papa ami mammas all over the world, especially in the Fiifted States, are not giving a lut of useless, expensive thin; this year either. That's why you tind us with our work all done and jrone to lied when ordinarily we would be hard at work." Santa jawned behind his hand ami picked up his lantern. I suddenly realized that I had been keeping hiin out of bed all this time when he needed a good sleep for his long trip tonight.

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"Well," said the old man gravely, puiting his lantern down on the barn floor, "the fact is that Santa t'lau land ha

WELL, DOLLY IS W0HCE:H0BE Weds At Crown Pint .A Husband Who Has a Past As Well.

Baldwin Locomotive

Y?M Z-,"2 IW Ji'?n UA x AT1 VK "novo! Haltimore and Ohio

vi ini-ir. i.-mieis -remove the cause. There is only one "Kromo Quinine.'- fcj. W. GROVK S sifc-nature on box. ;:ae. Adv.

M We hereby extend s 1 The p S Season's S $k 1 Greetings T. -- a a ST- j i - 5(

sa i o ah uur matrons . & HAMMOND &

- 'm Peter Brahos m Proprietor

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t'UOWX T'lINT, IXP. Dec. 24. Oswald S. FertrtT. who was married to

l Mr. Dollie Ledgerwood Matters of

Baby MaHtcrs fame a month ago at Crown Fint. was arrested last nipht in Chicago on s serious charge on oompiarnt of Mi?s Helen Hsrnard, 5"7 Tullerton parkway. Ferlner laid the blame for his arrest on a lawyer uho. he said, opposed Mrs. Matters in the trial over the baby which was declared not the child of Mrs. Matters, but that of a youngCanadian girl. He declared he was forced to resign his position as manager at Frederick H. P.orlett & Co.'s, real estate operators, by whom M.gs Bernard also was employed. beeaitFe of htr. Miss Her-

IF YOU HAVE WE AK LUNGS or throat trouble tha' threaten to become chronic, take pVti'v !' p.;rv food, 'fresh air and rest, aiid i Eckman's Alterative Many have found thi Calejurn prTaration a tonic suited to tjr.cir needs, and it may meet the requirements in your erase. Contains no Alcohol, Narcotic or Habit-Forming-Dru. 83 slse, now 81.50. 91 siie, now 80c. rioid by all leading druggist. flfKiltan Laboratory, Philadelphia.

MAYBE YOU'LL GET SOME COAL MONEY BACK ' ST. PAT'I.. Tinn., I'ec. "i. Scores of re4a.il coal dealers throughout Minnesota were ordered today by Judge J. F. Meeiee, federal coal administrator to refund overcharge made since Nov. when the federal order went into effect l'mjting the margins or profits to deal

ers. I'ealer hav e been reporting their j jnir.g

taies anu me margins have ben figured out. Kefijndl ordered run in some ca?e up to nearly $2 a ton. TWO HARBOR MEN IN SMASHUP

December

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American Bee Sugar American Car Fdrv. American Locomotive

Anaconda 5S7a American Smelting - 71' P'-ooklyn J:afid Tiatitit 37"i

5'i 40 4

Canadian Pacific American ("an Co.

New York Central 64 1

Colorado Fuel- 33' 2 j '"hesapeake and Ohio 43 ! Frie 1 14 American Steel Fdrs. 55 !j i ;eneral Electric 124'2 fJreat Northern -Tt. 8tli Illinois Central 86 Maxvjell Motors 1 Mexican Petroleum . 73 Norfolk and AVeMern 97 Northern Faciftc 77 7 Pennsylvania . 431 Pittsburg Coal 40 Teoples Gas 5?

Tit public Iron and Steel Z i

' atest r' horn Ham-

I mond's thriving insurance ii.titu'ion, (thia afternoon paid tribu'c to the ef-

hciency of its agents and offic-r siaff. In. H. n. Sharrer. presub nt f thj company, sheds all the glory an 1 gives I the credit to what h-j tern's "the great

est C'jrps oi ag-ents any compariy can hoat of having." Promptly at 1:3(1 this afternoon the agents and office people with tj;e president and directors doing the honor, gathered around a Chrisi-

, mas trees in the office, and jeceived i their bonus presMU, arid enjoyed a (spread together. j Since fec. 1. l!1fi. the Northern States Life Insurance Company has j increase! it assets from Jiiyo.eifti) .to j $360,000 and mortgage loans from i J20n,nrii) to $270.0'iii. its legal re- ' serve is row $2(0.930 as against $1SH -j ooo In 1916 and the gain in surplus is i $ 10,547. The insurance exhibit wa three million at the close of last year and 1 $3,811,700 now. The. business j written this years totals $1,510. 000 and

the death claims paid amount to $25.SIS. The business was secured at the

lowest cost, the seeurities are the I finest and bear 6 and 7 per cent and j every dollar of income above cost of l h.isiness and death claims has been : loaned to help build up the Calumet t Region. The company has leaned over $125,000 in Gary aone.

ASK FOR and GET rlick7s

The Original CVIalfcd Milk Substitutes Cost YOU Same priCfc

1, FUNERAL OF

.stale Fidelity and Guaranty Comram et al. Marion S. C. Appellee's petition for lime, which is granted, including February 21, 1M8. 10129. Indian Crek Coal and Mininz Company vs. Laura Calvert e Industrial Uoard. Appellants reply briefs. 930f. I. C. Smith Coal Companv v John D. Finelj, et al. Marion S. C. Appe!lant petition for rehearing enu brief. 10061. Tha Pi'tsburg'. t'inctnnau Chicago & tft. Louis P.ailway Company ' Nancy K. Sedwick. (Ivven S. C. Appellant's briefs. 100--.'. The Standard Brewery v

' .Maries lluslin. Lake S. C. pet n ion for time.

Appellee'

HALIFAX PICTURES AT THE ORPHEUM

Th Halifax pictures and the A.r,r ican Minstrel Maids vie for th first honors on the Christmas hill at the Hammond Orpheum Theatare. The Hires of the recent honor at Haii'av will apep.it- for the first tune in Ha.n-

-rtiond at the Orpheuni.

The Wbb Trio. Edward and Bui. Parker Bros., and Amana Hendrix atother acts on the bill.

FUNERAL OF EAST CHICAGO MAN

A Gary A It.terurban car st ruck an auto at Oth and Eng.!' wood avenues. Saturday afternoon at S o'elor k. injuring two men. Sam Cunningham of

Parish avenue, and John r it-go- m i'irt

street, were ln.iurfd. Ficgle w;ts taken !o Mercy hospital.

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V. S. Rubber 49 Southern raI1c 7S' Southern r.Bllway 22 V hgo. Mil. and St. Paul 37'i Texas Oil ' 121 !;. S. Steel S5lj V'nion Facific 104' Ftah Copper 75 1 Western Fnion S0 14 Wabash 7'i Willys Overland IS1

FINE MORALS THEY HAVE AT OTIS, IND.

CHICAGO CC-n.V May. Jan.. S1.2."". OATS May. i77e. .

J1.24'

TTJTUKES. Dec $1.24i;

15c; Dec, S'jc; Jan.,

Gary officials w ill prosecute a farmer I at Otis. Ind.. who i" alleged to have dressed for shipment to, '-ary a h"K that did of a virulent disease. The j farmer rut aw-ty over 10't pounds of I

diseased tissue, it is charged, and forwardd it to a fSary but her. Thf butcher took the meal to th board of liea'th. pnd Inspector fluhinser is re'eri-inK the ofi" to the state board of health. 'There is enough bad meat here f po.sr.ri many peoul. Thi man who but. hei ed it slio-jld he m the st to prison.'' said IIuh:pper.

CHICAGO LITI STOCK. HOGS Recepts, rlOOO; market, fairly active: mixed. $18.3517.10; good. $!6.t5 3 17.oo: rough. $ 1 6. SO n i .50; light, $15.9017.00: pig. $11. 73 it 15.50; heavy. $1S.30' 17.10. CATTLE Receipts, 14.000: market, strong. 10 up: beeves. $7.35 "g 1 4.50;

; cows-heiiers. g.i.su tr 1 1 .:ju ; siocKerej feeders, $6 50'S 10.25; calves, $9.003 16.50; w estern steers, $6.40 1215.

Two sons and four sons-in-law of Ang-us X. MacLeod this afternoon acted ts pall bearers at the funeral of the well known Hammond man whose death occurred Friday. Tfre funeral cortege went from the late residence in 410 Cedar street to the First Baptist church where Rev. Floyd H. Adams officiated and the remains were laid to rest in Oak Hill cemeteiy. A widow- and twelve children survive. The widow is Mrs. Mary A. Mac-I-eod andthe children. Mrs. Dora Croak. Mrs. William A. lieckman. Archie, Robert. Mrs. John Xowlan. Mrs. Harry Freyman, Mrs. LaGraff Green. Kenneth. Ruth. Harry, Malool.tn and Ang-us Jr. The pall bearers were Archie and Robert MacLeod. William Feckman, John Vow-Ian, Harry Freyman and LaGraff Green. . Ang'ts MacLeod was horn at Ashfild. Canada. February 1.154. and wa- sixty-three -ye-r. eleven inonth. and twenty-one days of age at the time of his death. He was a re&i(lnt of Thomnson. North Dakota, for seventeen years and lived in Hammond Y--en ty-one years. He was a stationary engineer with the Hammond Packing Company for vear.

CHICAGO rBODUCE rt'TTFR Creamery extras.

j creamery first. 4e; firsts, 'seconds. 39fl40'r. i EGGS Ordinaries. 42?45c ! 47c. 1 LIVE rOULTRT Fowl.

To Cnte a Cold In One Day

ITaVe LAVVnVE F.RMMo Ql IN1XF. i Tablet. Ii ugg-ts refund mnnv if It j fail to cure. i.l. W. Gr-MtK'i tigna-liur-j is 011 each box. Ad ..

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17S20c;

. 4S?9c; 424 ff47c; firsts. 4S 172lc:

springs,

Home On Furlough.

duck

19', o: turkeys. . 24 ? 25c. ' VEAL -o0 to lbs.. 16?J lS'-c: 70 to sr. lbs.. Igi7c; S4 to 110 lb.. I7ffl?c; kidneys. 12Hc; coarse. S'JIOc. POTATOES Cars. 30; Minn., $115 IT

.10; westerns. $2 00 2.10.

?eigeant r-llfitop Wh'ftr.n. son of. street. Hammond, is hums on furlough j

and Mrs. N. O

n nip Shelhv .

Whitton. Mis.

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If You Think THE TIMES Is Doing Its Bit Your Support Is Alwavj Welcome.

Higher Courts' Record. Supreme Court Sfitutes. 23374. The Fidelity and Casuality Company vs. Gertrtjde A. Cox. Posey C. C. Appellant's petition for time, which is granted including Februray 7. T1S. 2S352. Bernard Powell vs. State of Indiana. Howard C. C. Appellee's briefs on appellant's motion to be discharged. 23400. Calora Coal Company vs. Herbert Griffith. Industrial Board. Motion by attorney-general for leave to file briefs. IS230. Union Traction Company of Indiana vs. Noah D. Irry. administrator. Marion S. C. Appellant's opposition to Issuing writ of certiorari. Appellate) Court Minutes. 10166. Indianapolis Alhat'oir Company vs. Rebecca Bryant. Industrial board. Appellant's brief 1O200. Rosa M. B. Hilt, et ai, vs. Drusllla Carr et al. Laporte S. ". Appellees are granted time, including February 1. 1?1?. 10029. Harper J. Ransburg . Fnited

The funeral of David Mthes. a;t East Chicago man who former'y lived in Hammond, was held today from the home of his brother, Morgan Mathews at 42S29 Oleott avenue, to Oak HiH cemetery with burial In Oak Hill cemetery. Mr. Mathewa died last Monday at El r60, Texas. , Rev. Floyd Adams f Hammond officiated at the service.

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Customers to be

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HAMMOND LAUNDRY 163 Michigan Ave HAMMOND, INDIANA

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Stop! Look Read! CHave you failed to read our Frost King advertisments? Do you propose to al

low your radiator to freeze and crack, when it can be avoided at such a trifling expense? IAn ounce of preventative (and we have it) is worth a pound of cure. I D.on't take, any more chances. Now is the time when we are just breaking into winter. Champion Tire & Supply Company Fred F. F'riedley, Mgr. Truman and Sohl Sts., Hammond.

ARMY OF WORKERS NEEDED OX THE FRENCH FRONT, TO SUPPORT THE GALLANT "MEN BEHIND THE GUNS

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ELUXE

THEATRE

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FREDERICK WARDE in "FIRES OF YOUTH" Also Rip Roaring Comedy. Xmas Day, Dec. 25 We wish you all a Merry Xmas and Present the Noted Screen Star Ann Pennington in "The Antics of Ann"

Also a Luke Comedy and Great Picture of What Unci Sam Is Doing for the Cause of Liberty. Wednesday Charles Ray and Frank Keenan - in "The Coward" Also Good Comedy and Burton Holmes. Coming, a Great Picture, "When a Man Seen Red."

TO-DAY

WM. S. HART In a Five Act Western FraUiie "THE ARYAN" TUESDAY A Five Act Feature, with , MIRIAM COOPERBETRAYED WEDNESDAY WHEN FALSE TONGUES SPEAK' With Virginia Pearson.

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The recent experience of the United States engineers near Cambrai when many of them dropped shsvels and spades to seize Runs and fight aide by side with their British aliies, emphasizes the 'act that an army of workers is needed constantly to supplement an army of fighters. The upper picture shows in strikinsr

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load of corkscrews. These are not ! ly wanted by the inland waterway?

used for bottles, but as posta upon which to hanr barbed wire for the

famous barbed wire entanglement. Pounding in a post ia not only hard work but noisy work as well and is apt to attract the unwelcome atten

tions oi tne uerman snipers ana ma .Ul- ... n;ii I A . 'r.

anl docks section of the Imperial Royal Engineers are blacksmiths, boat builders, carpenters, caulkers, drillers, frame benders, heavy timbermen, platers, platers helpers, pile drivers, quarrymen, ripgers, rivetters and their mates, seamen,

silhouette a detail of sappers Bccured , laboriously but silently screws these

by the British and Canadian Re- j corkscrewg into the . round and then t ruiting Mission returning at night j strings his barbed wire between afte a hard day's work consoli- j them. The insert at the left is a Hating gains on the French front, striking silhouette of an anti-aircraft The lower photograph apparently run at twilight onardihp the work-

fioppn't show the "bone dry" district ' ers and the fighters from German

chine gun "pill boxes, so Tommy i shipwrights, shipyard machinist?

because Tommy is niting under a : aeroplanes. Among the men urgent-i ment,

and stevedores between the ages of

41 and 56. A sapper, who ranks as private, receives 76 cents rer clay, a lance corporal 84 cents, a second corporal $1, a corporal $1.03 and a sergeant $1.28, and all get free transportation to the. point of enlist-

RPHEUfl

Theatre HI

Hammond, Ind. Today and Tuesday American Minstrel Maids New Idea in Minstrels Amanda Hendricks Comedienne Webb Trio Singing. Talking and Dancing Edward & Betsy Comedy Singing and Piano Novelty Parker Brothers Hand Equilibrists ADMISSION Matinees 10-1 5c. Nights 10c, 25c, 35c. New Show Monday, Wednesday end Saturday. Matinee Haily 2:30 p. m. Nights, 7 to 11 p ru. Sundays Continuous 2-11 p in.

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