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In this edition, we'll delve into the treasure trove of historical news articles dated January 7, unearthing stories that resonate with genealogists and history enthusiasts alike.
From local happenings to global events, we'll uncover the stories that shaped the lives of our ancestors, providing valuable insights for those on a quest to discover their roots.
So, grab your magnifying glass and step into the past as we unravel the January 7 historical headlines that may hold the missing pieces of your family's history puzzle.
1882 sales receipt - G. W. Bradley
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1887 - An Entire Passenger Train Wrecked By a Double-Header Freight Train
Meadville, Pa Dec 31, - At Eight o'clock this morning train No. 8, from the West, running fifty miles an hour, collided with a double-header freight four miles west of this city on the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio railroad. The entire passenger train is a total wreck, and forty persons are supposed to be killed.
All the physicians in the city and several hundred persons have gone to the scene by a special train
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Meadville, Pa., Dec 31.- 12:15 PM - A report from the wreck just... Read MORE...
Saturday Herald - Decatur, Illinois - January 7, 1888
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1800s Cooking Tips and Recipes
Cooking Chickens - A new way of cooing chickens is to parboil them and then drop them into hot lard, a la doughuts, and fry a few minutes. This will serve to make variety in the bill of fare, but will not wholly take the place of the favorite ...Read MORE...
The Willimantic Chronicle, Willimantic, Conn., September 29, 1880
1800s Advice and Etiquette for Men
Having made your choice, and obtained the object of your desire, let it be your ambition that both she and those who gave her to you may ever find increasing cause to rejoice in the...Read MORE...
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Gresham, Oregon, USA
After being carried seven miles in a litter by two companions, Leo Roland, a woodcutter, whose arms were broken when a giant tree fell on the lonely hut in which he was brought to Portland last night. The Red Cross ambulance met the litter a mile down the Powell Valley road, and the ambulance employes lifted the man into the ambulance. A fast run in the snow to the Good Samaritan Hospital put Roland under medical care.
Roland, who is an employe of Rudlum Bros., timber cutters, was employed... Read MORE...
Morning Oregonian - Portland, Oregon - January 7, 1912
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1912 - TWO CARRY FRIEND IN SLUSH 7 MILES. TIMBER-CUTTER, WITH BOTH ARMS BROKEN, IS BORNE. Tree Falls on Woodman's Hut, When Companions Find Leo Roland They Improvise Litter.
After being carried seven miles in a litter by two companions, Leo Roland, a woodcutter, whose arms were broken when a giant tree fell on the lonely hut in which he was brought to Portland last night. The Red Cross ambulance met the litter a mile down the Powell Valley road, and the ambulance employes lifted the man into the ambulance. A fast run in the snow to the Good Samaritan Hospital put Roland under medical care.
Roland, who is an employe of Rudlum Bros., timber cutters, was employed... Read MORE...
Morning Oregonian - Portland, Oregon - January 7, 1912
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White Creek, New York, USA
The Wreck Occurred Near White Creek, N. Y., Before Daybreak - Shattered Cars Burned.
Special to The New York Times.
BENNINGTON, Vt., Jan. 6. - The fast express bound from Montreal to New York City by way of the Rutland, Boston and Maine and the New York Central Railroads, was deliberately wrecked early this morning. The engineer and fireman of the train were badly hurt and several passengers were shaken up and bruised.
The wreck occurred at Wallomsac Station, near White Creek, N. Y.,... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - January 7, 1906
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1906 - DRUNKEN MAN WRECKS THE MONTREAL EXPRESS - Switch Locked So That Train Had to Take a Siding. ENGINE CREW BADLY HURT
The Wreck Occurred Near White Creek, N. Y., Before Daybreak - Shattered Cars Burned.
Special to The New York Times.
BENNINGTON, Vt., Jan. 6. - The fast express bound from Montreal to New York City by way of the Rutland, Boston and Maine and the New York Central Railroads, was deliberately wrecked early this morning. The engineer and fireman of the train were badly hurt and several passengers were shaken up and bruised.
The wreck occurred at Wallomsac Station, near White Creek, N. Y.,... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - January 7, 1906
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Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Total Damage by Matthews Blaze Not Over $2,000, Buildings Will Be At Once Replaced by Larger and Better Ones.
The cause of the disastrous fire in the Matthews Jersey dairy, north of the city Saturday night remains a mystery. No one had been about the buildings for hours as far as known, there was no stove or light about the barns and the only explanation is that the fire was the work of incendiaries or was caused by some careless tramp with a cigarette. There were three smaller barns beside... Read MORE...
Albuquerque Morning Journal - Albuquerque, New Mexico - January 7, 1907
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1907 - Origin Of Fire In Dairy Is A Mystery
Total Damage by Matthews Blaze Not Over $2,000, Buildings Will Be At Once Replaced by Larger and Better Ones.
The cause of the disastrous fire in the Matthews Jersey dairy, north of the city Saturday night remains a mystery. No one had been about the buildings for hours as far as known, there was no stove or light about the barns and the only explanation is that the fire was the work of incendiaries or was caused by some careless tramp with a cigarette. There were three smaller barns beside... Read MORE...
Albuquerque Morning Journal - Albuquerque, New Mexico - January 7, 1907
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Blinding Flashes and Deafening Crashes Continuous - Streets Unlighted - Newspapers Use Hand Presses.
MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 6. - An explosion and fire which destroyed the main plant of the General Electric Company early to-day, injured three men, caused a loss of $750,000, and seriously interfered with business throughout the city during the day, left the city to-night in almost total darkness. Several office buildings got power for light and elevators from the street railway company and flour... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - January 7, 1911
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1911 - EXPLOSION TIES UP AND DARKENS A CITY. Power House of Electric Co. In Minneapolis Destroyed by Short Circuit of 13,000 Volts. ELEVEN MEN NEAR DEATH.
Blinding Flashes and Deafening Crashes Continuous - Streets Unlighted - Newspapers Use Hand Presses.
MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 6. - An explosion and fire which destroyed the main plant of the General Electric Company early to-day, injured three men, caused a loss of $750,000, and seriously interfered with business throughout the city during the day, left the city to-night in almost total darkness. Several office buildings got power for light and elevators from the street railway company and flour... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - January 7, 1911
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Delhi, New York, USA
Delhi, Jan. 6. - Three lives were lost in a fire that destroyed the American Hotel at this place early today.
The dead are:
WILLIAM WINTER, druggist.
MRS. ANNA WINTER, his wife.
JOHN O'CONNOR, tailor.
All were residents of Delhi and permanent guests at the hotel. They had lived in Delhi for years are were prominent in the business community.
The fire was discovered in the apartment of MR. WINTER and his wife on the third floor, and by the time the firemen arrived the big three-story ... Read MORE...
The Post-Standard - Syracuse, New York - January 7, 1907
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1907 - THREE GUESTS DIE IN BURNING DELHI HOTEL. OTHERS JUMP FROM THE WINDOWS IN THEIR NIGHT CLOTHES.
Delhi, Jan. 6. - Three lives were lost in a fire that destroyed the American Hotel at this place early today.
The dead are:
WILLIAM WINTER, druggist.
MRS. ANNA WINTER, his wife.
JOHN O'CONNOR, tailor.
All were residents of Delhi and permanent guests at the hotel. They had lived in Delhi for years are were prominent in the business community.
The fire was discovered in the apartment of MR. WINTER and his wife on the third floor, and by the time the firemen arrived the big three-story ... Read MORE...
The Post-Standard - Syracuse, New York - January 7, 1907
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Middletown, Rhode Island, USA (Green's End)
MIDDLETOWN
There was a serious fire at Atlantic Beach just over the line in Middletown from the Newport Beach at 3 o'clock last Sunday morning. The Sea View Hotel had been closed for about three months, but, in some way a fire started during Saturday night. The Middletown fire apparatus was called about 3 o'clock and upon arriving found the whole of the inside of the hotel afire. The firemen did good work in saving the surrounding buildings and the outside of the hotel but the entire inside... Read MORE...
Newport Mercury - Newport, Rhode Island - January 7, 1928
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1928 - Hotel Fire
MIDDLETOWN
There was a serious fire at Atlantic Beach just over the line in Middletown from the Newport Beach at 3 o'clock last Sunday morning. The Sea View Hotel had been closed for about three months, but, in some way a fire started during Saturday night. The Middletown fire apparatus was called about 3 o'clock and upon arriving found the whole of the inside of the hotel afire. The firemen did good work in saving the surrounding buildings and the outside of the hotel but the entire inside... Read MORE...
Newport Mercury - Newport, Rhode Island - January 7, 1928
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Malden, Massachusetts, USA
MALDEN, Mass., Jan. 6.- With the woodwork of the cab ablaze and a shower of sparks streaming behind, Engineer Goodwin drove a Boston & Maine locomotive with six crowded passenger cars attached into the Faulkner station to-night. The passengers had no inkling of trouble until they heard the fire engines. Firemen extinguished the blaze and the train proceeded.
The engineer said that a broken pipe had allowed water to fall into the firebox, causing a small explosion, which threw hot coals back... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - January 7, 1911
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1911 - STICKS TO BLAZING ENGINE. Only When Train Reaches Station Does Engineer Leave His Post.
MALDEN, Mass., Jan. 6.- With the woodwork of the cab ablaze and a shower of sparks streaming behind, Engineer Goodwin drove a Boston & Maine locomotive with six crowded passenger cars attached into the Faulkner station to-night. The passengers had no inkling of trouble until they heard the fire engines. Firemen extinguished the blaze and the train proceeded.
The engineer said that a broken pipe had allowed water to fall into the firebox, causing a small explosion, which threw hot coals back... Read MORE...
The New York Times - New York, New York - January 7, 1911
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Easthampton, Massachusetts, USA
It is a matter of astonishment that no injury to person or life was the consequence of the disaster to the new seminary building at Easthampton. The upper story of the main building was occupied by students, and the inmates of the rooms were asleep. They were aroused by an unusual noise, and found o their utter astonishment, that their rooms had no other covering than the canopy of heaven! The roof was taken off whole, and carried over the rear projection of the edifice, and precipitated to the ... Read MORE...
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Republican Farmer - Connecticut - January 7, 1845
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1845 - The Gale at Easthampton, Mass.
It is a matter of astonishment that no injury to person or life was the consequence of the disaster to the new seminary building at Easthampton. The upper story of the main building was occupied by students, and the inmates of the rooms were asleep. They were aroused by an unusual noise, and found o their utter astonishment, that their rooms had no other covering than the canopy of heaven! The roof was taken off whole, and carried over the rear projection of the edifice, and precipitated to the ... Read MORE...
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Republican Farmer - Connecticut - January 7, 1845
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1714 January 7 - Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later)
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1911 KALAMAZOO Y. M. C. A. BURNS
KALAMAZOO, Mich., Jan. 6. - The Young Men's Christian association building in this city was destroyed by fire last night with a loss estimated at upwards of $160,000, partly covered by insurance. The cause of the fire is not known.
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Duluth, Minnesota
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1923 January 1–7 – Rosewood massacre, a violent, racially motivated conflict in Florida. At least eight people are killed, and the town of Rosewood is abandoned and destroyed.
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1911 KALAMAZOO Y. M. C. A. BURNS
KALAMAZOO, Mich., Jan. 6. - The Young Men's Christian association building in this city was destroyed by fire last night with a loss estimated at upwards of $160,000, partly covered by insurance. The cause of the fire is not known.
Duluth News-Tribune
Duluth, Minnesota
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1923 January 1–7 – Rosewood massacre, a violent, racially motivated conflict in Florida. At least eight people are killed, and the town of Rosewood is abandoned and destroyed.
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1973 January 7 – Mark Essex kills 9 people at the Howard Johnson's hotel in downtown New Orleans.
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1873 January 7, 1873 - A blizzard raged across the Great Plains. Many pioneers, unprepared for the cold and snow, perished in southwest Minnesota and northwestern Iowa.
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1871 Christopher Columbus was badly defeated for Councilman at the Buffalo election. Such is fame.
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Saint Joseph, Michigan
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1873 January 7, 1873 - A blizzard raged across the Great Plains. Many pioneers, unprepared for the cold and snow, perished in southwest Minnesota and northwestern Iowa.
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1871 Christopher Columbus was badly defeated for Councilman at the Buffalo election. Such is fame.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
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1871 Lincoln monument progress
The Lincoln monument, at Springfield, Ill., is about half done, and will be completed and dedicated on the 4th of next July.
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Saint Joseph, Michigan
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1871 Thanksgiving
Mr. Patrick Rogers, of Cohoes, N. Y., on Thanksgiving Day, made a present of a barrel of flour to every poor woman in the city.
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Saint Joseph, Michigan
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1871 Woman Chief Engineer of Fire Department
At Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Miss S. C. Gardner has made such timely discoveries of fires, and has rendered assistance thereat so coolly and efficiently, that the City Council is about to appoint her Chief Engineer of the Fire Department.
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Saint Joseph, Michigan
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The Lincoln monument, at Springfield, Ill., is about half done, and will be completed and dedicated on the 4th of next July.
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Saint Joseph, Michigan
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1871 Thanksgiving
Mr. Patrick Rogers, of Cohoes, N. Y., on Thanksgiving Day, made a present of a barrel of flour to every poor woman in the city.
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Saint Joseph, Michigan
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1871 Woman Chief Engineer of Fire Department
At Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Miss S. C. Gardner has made such timely discoveries of fires, and has rendered assistance thereat so coolly and efficiently, that the City Council is about to appoint her Chief Engineer of the Fire Department.
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Saint Joseph, Michigan
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1871 Growing like a weed
Salt Lake City has gained more than 5,000 inhabitants since the year 1860.
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Saint Joseph, Michigan
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1871 Too Much Snow
Bangor, Me., has had eleven snow storms this season before Christmas.
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1871 Hotel Fire Results in Bridge Disaster
A hotel at Franklin, Pa., was burned the other day, and the flames set fire to the wood work of a wire bridge over the Allegheny river, and the cables, soon becoming red hot, parted from their anchorage, precipitating the bridge structure into the river. About twenty persons were on the bridge at the time, several of whom were fatally injured.
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Saint Joseph, Michigan
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Salt Lake City has gained more than 5,000 inhabitants since the year 1860.
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1871 Too Much Snow
Bangor, Me., has had eleven snow storms this season before Christmas.
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1871 Hotel Fire Results in Bridge Disaster
A hotel at Franklin, Pa., was burned the other day, and the flames set fire to the wood work of a wire bridge over the Allegheny river, and the cables, soon becoming red hot, parted from their anchorage, precipitating the bridge structure into the river. About twenty persons were on the bridge at the time, several of whom were fatally injured.
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1871 A girl of sixteen, near Montreal, recently took arsenic to whiten her complexion. None could question her success as she lay in her coffin the following day.
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Saint Joseph, Michigan
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1782 January 7 - 1st US commercial bank, Bank of North America, opens in Philadelphia
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1893 Fire
DENVER, Jan. 6. - One of the largest fires that ever occurred in this city started at 10:45 last night in the oil room of the E. A. Halleck Paint, Oil, and Glass Company, in the Halleck Building, and soon spread to the adjoining houses. The loss is estimated at $290,000, divided as follows: Eaton, Ritchell & Co., hardware, $25,000: Halleck Paing, Oil and Glass Company, $65,000; Denver Stamping Company, $90,000; Western Laundry Company, $10,000; F. A. & Charles Salleck, building, $100,000;...
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1782 January 7 - 1st US commercial bank, Bank of North America, opens in Philadelphia
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1893 Fire
DENVER, Jan. 6. - One of the largest fires that ever occurred in this city started at 10:45 last night in the oil room of the E. A. Halleck Paint, Oil, and Glass Company, in the Halleck Building, and soon spread to the adjoining houses. The loss is estimated at $290,000, divided as follows: Eaton, Ritchell & Co., hardware, $25,000: Halleck Paing, Oil and Glass Company, $65,000; Denver Stamping Company, $90,000; Western Laundry Company, $10,000; F. A. & Charles Salleck, building, $100,000;...
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1928 Serious Accident
Miss Adelaide Sims and her brother, William S. Sims, Jr., a student at St. George's School, son and daughter of Admiral and Mrs. William S. Sims, were in a serious auto accident in Raynham on Tuesday. Fortunately all escaped injury. The car in which they were on their way to Boston, with Miss Sims driving, was in collision with a car headed in the opposite direction. The other car was overturned and both machines were badly damaged.
Newport Mercury
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1898 Rhode Island Mills Will Cut. Wages Already Too Small Properly to Support the Families.
The directors of the Valley Falls company at Albion, R. I., and the Albion company at Valley Falls, the two remaining companies in the Blackstone valley which had not announced a reduction in wages, decided yesterday to post notices to that effect. The state executive committee of the mule spinners' association of Rhode Island met at Pawtucket last night. It was stated that the delegates reported that the feeling in the state against a reduction of wages runs high. The wages received at the...
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Miss Adelaide Sims and her brother, William S. Sims, Jr., a student at St. George's School, son and daughter of Admiral and Mrs. William S. Sims, were in a serious auto accident in Raynham on Tuesday. Fortunately all escaped injury. The car in which they were on their way to Boston, with Miss Sims driving, was in collision with a car headed in the opposite direction. The other car was overturned and both machines were badly damaged.
Newport Mercury
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1898 Rhode Island Mills Will Cut. Wages Already Too Small Properly to Support the Families.
The directors of the Valley Falls company at Albion, R. I., and the Albion company at Valley Falls, the two remaining companies in the Blackstone valley which had not announced a reduction in wages, decided yesterday to post notices to that effect. The state executive committee of the mule spinners' association of Rhode Island met at Pawtucket last night. It was stated that the delegates reported that the feeling in the state against a reduction of wages runs high. The wages received at the...
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America - Did you know?
Cherry Pit Spitting - Michigan - 2018 will be the 45th year of the International Cherry Pit Spitting Championship, held at the Tree-Mendus Fruit Farm in Michigan. It's simple – eat the cherry and spit the pip as far as you can. Contestants aren't...Read MORE...www.roughguides.com
Quebec - Did you know?
Women in New France worked very hard. They had to take care of the house, cook for the family, take care of the younger children. Sometimes women had 15 children or more. Women made clothes for the family using cloth that she spun.
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