The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, December 4, 1925 Page: 1 of 8
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C. D. Sanders Has
FORD DEVELOPS
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SIMPLE CONTROL!
and
need existed in the world today than
means a lot to you.
word of God In their daily lives. Theo-
What is Rotary?
word of God, then Christ was no more
will help
the
the
practically every town from Corpus
San Antonio, a 13-ounce jar of figs
FUR SEASON OPENS.
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Less Complex Control of
Car, Greater the Ele-
ment of Comfort and
campaign will continue through the
month of December, and canners have
retically, we are
tually, we often
lumps, the registrant will be permit-
ted to make affidavvit to that effect
and this affidavit will take the place
R. E. BRITT,
20-21d-27-4-11w
Alfred Hobbs, Young
White Man, Confesses
Crime and Goods Are
Recovered.
ket price in cash.
Bay City, Texas.
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The private aquarium of the Duke
of Bedford harbors, a European cat-
fish, which though more than 60 yeras
old shows no sign of weakness.
Requests for Privilege to
Bid Coming From Con-
tractors in Every Sec-
tion of Country.
tert stations and the tax collector, and
will save time for the motorist.
Motorists can not obtain a headlight
Hand Severed
by Rice Header
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Light Company
Employees Attend
LANE CITY STORE
IS BURGLARIZED)
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Rev. Joslin Moves
To Longview, Texas.
The Trip to College
Station Football Game
A map covering 2750 feet of canvas,
ttesnakes which infest their burrows, has' beenb unveiled E Rome.' he worid.
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Prairie dogs and prairie owls are
good neighbors, but both hate the rat-
the time of registration, present lo the
tax collector a headlight certifieate
which has been issued by a test sta-
: lion with 30 duys of the date of regis-
The fur season is now open and will
continue until the 15th of February. I
am in the market for all kinds of peits
for which I will pay the highest mar-
About 70 Bay City and Matagorda
County people went on the Chamber *
B.Y.P.U.ASKS
PRAYER WEEK
Christian, but cannot accept the Bible I
is deluded. The Bible is not only true of 11 headligEht certificate. Early test-
1 and sublime, but any hungry hearting and registration will help the
finds in it that which he seeks.”
WORK ON CAMP TO
BEGIN IN EARNEST
ABOUT JANUARY 1
mand for easier operation,
The proceeds . usually long life of the clutch.
The boxes all brought a ! Danger of skidding upon applying
A box of candy sold for the brakes is reduced to a minimum
_______ .5; a cake for because of the fact that braking action
,_____ The boxes sold for 2100 up to is applied to the rear wheels equally
! 24.75. Mr. Taylor was the auctioneer., through the drive shaft. Braking
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। by wire or letter. The resolution,
। unanimously adopted, was presented
to the convention by Dr. R. L. Powell, I
O. H. Hart was assisting him 1 pastor of the First Baptist Church of I
was operating the blade when San Marcos.
Mr. Sanders in attempting to straight- The subject of Dr. Powell's address J
en a bundle allowed his hand to get j was "The Young People and Their j
too far in the machine just as the Bible.” He asserted that no greater
blade descended and his hand was cut
off before he realized what had hap-
pened.
Local physicians were immediately
notified and rushed to the aid of the
injured man and he is now resting as
well as could be expected.
Mr. Sanders and family, who reside
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Houston at 12:15, the remaining 95
Owing to Expected Influx of Workers
and Visitors All Citizens Having
Rooms or Houses for Kent Are Re-
quested to List Them With the
Chamber of Commeree.
VOLUNE LXXX —NUMBER 34.
greater the element of comfort and
safety in driving.
Relieving the driver of exertion and
distraction; permitting him to watch
all Christians; ac-
I DO WE LIVE TO BE TAXED OR ARE
WE TAXED THAT WE MAY LIVE?
Perpendicular road cuts that form on theurear wheelshave, been enlarg-
excellent nesting places for thousands L to.insure long life and greater ease
of bank swallows ran he seen in the 1 in bringing the car to sudden stops
lessal"regions"outsidebrsionuxnctt, demanded in emergencies.
than a man. He who declares he is a
taxation is a thing unknown. It mat-1 intemperately, to contract debt
Carlton Crawford was in Houston
Tuesday attending a meeting which
made final plans for the "Fig Month”
which will be held in December un-
der the auspices of the Houston Cham-
ber of Commerce.
The purpose of “Fig Month” is to
advertise the merits of the Magnolia
than does the same thing mean in pri-
vate affairs. In private life, as every-
one knows, folks just can’t help go
broke if, upon the one hand they un-
dertake to pay the bills while, upon
the other hand. others are permitted.
The Texas Automobile Headlight
law requires that every motorist, at
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leaving Houston. There was an I cussions of interesting topics; when Frequent starting and stopping
abundance for all and substantial' It8 board of directors realize they are means more wear to the clutch of the
fragments remained for supper. Games respon isble for the success of the clutch of the city driven car and the.......... w....
were played and an all round, jolly nuh ang for.hoiding„interest of the improved Fords are prepared for the fig throughout the United States. This
time was had by all. I members at the weekly meetings; and strain. Ford clutch disks are not - ■
The continuous courtesy of the rep- when it realizes Rotary is a ‘ *
resentatlves of the Gulf Coast and L- and the Rotary Club a school.
G. N. Lines was greatly appreciated. 0 0
The local representatives did every- Box Supper at Markham
thing in their power while from Hous-1
ton to College Mr. George S. Bruce, |
Crawford Packing Co. Palacios, Bay
City and Gulf are to do their share in
making the Magnolia fig better known
all over the country.—Palacios Bea-
con.
have difficulty in
BAY CITY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1923.
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the coach and met personally many
of our citizens.
Negotiations are already pending
for a special Pullman to go to Aus-
tin for the game next year and the
officials assured the secretary of the
Chamber of Commerce that an unusu-
ally low rate would be granted.
control, quicker
Other speakers during the forenoon
session were Secretary John Caylor
and Miss Ethel Hudson of Dallas, Dr.
George Green, Austin. *
Austin Next Meeting Place
Saturday afternoon, addresses were
delivered by Secretary H. V. Hamil-
ton of Little Rock, Ark, and Calvin
Nelson of San Antonio. This was fol-
lowed by departmental programs, a
parade in the down town section of
Waco and a sight-seeing tour of the
city, including a visit to Baylor Un-
iversity and Central Texas Baptist
Sanitarium.
At the night session, B. Y. P. U. ef-
ficiency banners were awarded, and
an address was delivered by Dr. I. E.
Gates of San Antonio.
Austin was selected for the 1926
convention.
to have the people Incorporate the
Rev. W. M. Joslin who has been
pastor of the Bay City Baptist church
left today with Mrs. Joslin for Long-
view where he will take the pastorate
of the Baptist church.
Mr. and Mrs. Joslin are making the
trip through In automobile, having
shipped their furniture yesterday.
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Sitting Bull’s headdress, saddle and
coat were sold to the Wyoming Histor-
ical Society of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsyl-
vania, for 1600.
Waco, Texas, Nov. 30.—Taking cog-
nizance of the "crime wave apparent
in the United States,” President Cal-
vin Coolidge is petitioned, in a resolu-
tion adopted at the state convention
here Saturday of the Baptist Young
Peoples’ Union of Texas, to set aside
a day for national repentance and
prayer. It is left to the discretion of
State Secretary T. C. Gardner of Dal-
las, to determine whether the resolu-
tion shall be presented to the Presi-
dent in person or communicated to him
ed guests. A most delightful
profitable time was had by all.
On Monday night of last week a
little store operated by Jim Timmons
on the rock road near the old Ed. Rob-
erts place, was entered and some
twenty-odd dollars worth of groceries
and tobacco and several bushels of
pecans stolen.
On Friday night the store of the
Lane City Mercantile Company was
also entered and probably 2100 worth
of merchandise taken. Officers were
notified of both occurrences, and were
on the lookout for the burglars. On
•Sunday night Deputy Sheriff Chas.
Koehl was called out on the Rich-'
mond Road near the old school build- ,
ing in this city to quell a disturbance
and placed a young white man by the
name of Alfred Hobbs under arrest. I
He was searched and among other ef- l
fects found on him was a right new
pocket knife. As a number of pocket1
knives were included in the merchan-
dise taken from the Lane City Mer-
cantile Company, Manager Ed. Wolters
of that concern was asked to come up
and see if he could identify this piece
of cutlery. He did. A search war- ■
rant was then issued and the officers
went to the home of the young man
and found a big lot of the loot, which
Mr. Wolters easily identified and some ,
which he could not. Jim Timmons
was then summoned and he identified
other stuff as being a part of that |
taken from his place. Confronted |
with these facts Hobbs admitted the
burglary of the Lane City Mercantile '
Company, but denied any knowledge of
the other burglary. In his confession
he implicated another young white
man whose home is in or near Bay
City and a warrant for his arrest was
issued, but at the time the item was
written, he had not been located,
though the officers expected to have
him within a few hours. — Wharton
Spectator.
proving it. If the Bible is not the i registered is not equipped with hevd-
a movement lined with the conventional composi-
tion, but instead are operated in oil J put at the disposals of merchants in
the strain of starting the propeller | --
shaft being taken up by the film of' Christi to Orange and Galveston to
lubricant. At points where there0-- a-—- - ••------ a- -•
i was formally contact between steel
district passenger agent, accompanied j Supt. I. T. Taylor gave a box sup- an1 cast iron, redesigning has brought
the crowd to see that the service was per at Markham for the benefit of the steel together..with steel, insuring un-
efficient and complete. Assistant Gen- boys basket ball team,
ea) Passenger Agent F. M. McClure were 260.00. "
was responsible for the securing of good price.
Pe extra engine for the trip, while 216.90; a turkey for 27.75;
( ce President H. R. Safford and City' 13.75. The boxes sold for
asenger Agent Morris of Houston ‘64 75 Teule" — "
Made the return trip to Houston with
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Real Value of Man n
and Woman
Safety in Driving.
"There Is Nothing Too Good For Our Friends"
Cuero Conference
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The offices of the Bay City Electric
and Ice Company were closed yester-
day. The employees went to Cuero to
attend a Public Relations Conference.
Employees of the properties included
in the Rice Group and Guadalupe
Group of the properties of the corpor- ,
ation were there. The secretary of
the chamber of commerce of Bay City
went along as an invited guest. Mr.
W. S. Vivian of Chicago had charge of
the conference and delivered a wond-1
erful address on the relation of the
utilities service to the public. He em-
phasized the fact that the company
was primarily working to render ser-
vice to the public and that every em-
ployee was expected to at all times
give to the public the very best that
was in him. The visitors were enter-
tained at noon by the Kiwanis club. I
The mayor of Cuero, the president of
the Rotary Club, the president of the
chamber of commerce were also honor
A deplorable accident happened this
. (Thursday) morning when C. I). San-
ders, a highly respected, industrious
certificate for registration purposes
on a re-test. The re-test provision
of the law permits a re-test. at any
time during the year, but the certifi-
cate presented for registration must
be a "test” certificate and must be
paid for. In other words, hendlamps
are "tested" at the beginning of each
year for registration purposes, and at
this time the regular yearly fee of
twenty-five cents must he paid. At
any time during the year following,
a re-test may be had free of charge
until the next registration period be-
gins.
After the coming pre-registration
tests, there will not be another set
test until the 1927 registration period
begins. Throughout the year, how-
ever, a constant check will be made
on the headlighting conditions in the
various parts of the State. Enforce-
ment work is in the hands of local
officers, and motorists are urged to
co-operate with them in reporting
bad headlighting conditions. There is
no doubt that compliance with the
headlight law will mean a great sav-
ing of property and human lives.
farmer, had his right hand severed
just below the wrist by a blade used
to cut heads from bundles of rice be-
fore putting them into the machine
for threshing.
, . ... .. The accident occurred just north of
Present day city traffic congestion Pheasant switch Where Mr. Sanders
has developed an ever increasing de-, was threshing his crop of rice and
simpler was hurrying to finish so that other
..... , getaway and gear parties who were anxious for the
shifting in motor cars With every thresher could have it, and only need-
metropolitan street and boulevard lit- ed about two or three hours more to
erally choked with automobiles, driv- finish
ers are quick to realize that the less | and
complex the control of the car, the
the road ahead and keep both hands
: on the wheel while threading through
of Commercespecial coach to College I---- traffic where frequent gear shifts are
Station to see the football game WhatIsRotarv? necessary, have always been outstand-
Thanksgiving Day. The trip was a vnau-s--tary: ing virtues of the control system of
colorful one and full of thrills from' . , w., , . Foro ars. In, the, improved cars,
the time they left until their return. I John Wilkinson says “That is a hap- these features have been subjected to
Not leaving here until 9:20 that morn- PY time in the life of a Rotary Club a number,, of, refinements calculated
ing, a record-breaking run was made when it realizes it is not a C runner to meet the demands of present and
to the College, arriving there at 2:40. of Commerce, that it need not assess futurein driving.
Houston was reached at 11:45 where I each., member a substan al sum for , the Ford car soon becomes
a snecia engine was waiting Th charity, institutions or issues; that automatic action on the part of the
W City coach and a sleeper were at! no reply is needed to the untie who operator. The gearshift is simple in
tached tn the engine and leaving jibes, all you do is eat and talk,’ the extreme and because of the fact
tacneu to me engine ana leaving when it realizes that what precisely that all gears are constantly in mesh,
what it is expected to do is eat and it is physically impossible to clash
Ghe Etlatagora founts Tribune
The first tangible evidences that
something will really be done on the
Army Camp are beginning to appear.
Since Saturday, Captain Vandevan-
ter and his men have been busy mak-
ing the location of the camp on the
ground. Tall markers have been
placed at the corners of the camp and
to Indicate the boundaries of the
brigade areas. One can now get a pic-
ture of the layout and the extent of
the camp by a visit to the area, Small
stakes are also being put in to mark
the location of each kitchen, bath
house and other buildings. Pipe lines
are being staked out and all is being
put in readiness so that the contrac-
tor who is low may go to work as
soon as he has signed the contract.
Reports from Austin indicate that
this work has aroused a great deal of
interest and opportunity to bid has
been requested from all over the
country. Several local contractors
have gotten plans and specifications
and it Is hoped that they will sharpen
their pencils and beat these outside
firms, so that the honor and the profit
accruing from the constuction may be
shared in-by local people.
The bids are to be opened In Austin
on December 10, and about ten days
will lie required to award and sign
the contracts. Work will probably
not get under way until about Jan-
uary 1, as It would be difficult to do
much during the Christmas holidays.
Weather permitting, however, things
will begin to hum after the first, and
there will be good opportunity for all
those who desire to get work in their
trade. There will be digging, con-
crete work .carp inter work, plumbing,
painting, pipe laying, rigging, well
drilling and general laboring work.
Several hundred will be employed and
the payrolls should add appreciably
to the income of the Palacios mer-
chants.
A number of out of town people
will undoubtedly be employed and
will want board and room, or light
housekeeping rooms, and probably
want to rent houses. It i suggested
that all those who have rooms or
houses to rent list them with the
Chamber of Commerce before Christ-
mas so that they wil know where to
go to find out where they can get ac-
commodations.
We are also informed that negotia-
tions have been concluded which prac-
tically assures that the S. P. spur to
the camp will be in readiness by the
first of the year, which will greatly
facilitate the work at the camp
grounds.—Palacios Beacon,
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The Law and
the Headlight
Thomas Jefferson Putnam,
who is connected with the Col-
orado Agriculture College and
calls himself "Speclalist in
Rural Deviiment," reports that
his wife recently read to him
the old scientific determination
of the value of man from a
mineral standpoint. The scien-
tists say that the ingredients
of a man are:
Fat enough for a bur of
laundry soap.
Iron enough for two nails.
Sugar enough to fill a tea-
cup.
Lime enough to whitewash a
chicken-coop.
Phosphorus enough for a box
of matches.
Sulphur enough to rid a dog
of fleas.
These ingredients would cost
about 89 cents at any corner
drug store.
Mrs. Putnam said so much
about this thut Thomas Jeffer-
son couldn't sleep until he had
figured out the value of a wom-
an. Woman ,he says, has been
proved to contain t
Starch enough to be stuck on
herself.
Brass enough to butt in any-
w here.
Potassium enough to explode
a toy pistol.
Gall enough to embitter the
sweetest male disposition.
Paint enough for an Italian
sunset.
Powder enough to blow up a
dreadnaught.
Perfume enough to gas a reg-
iment.
All of which cun be had in
liny department store for 32
cents.
He woke his wife to tell her
this. Next morning Thomas
Jefferson got his own break-
fast. Holstein Breeder mid
Dairy num.
ters little whether taxes are imposed
on one's home, his land, his business
or profession or upon his income; nor
upon the gasoline he buys, the motor
car he owns or the utility whose serv- j
ice he must use. It must be paid out ।
of what he earns, or has, just the
same. Nor is the burden less dis-
tracting whether the public revenues
be squandered through extravagance,
incompetence or by deliberate design.
Of course one can’t fight, success-
fully, superlative alertness upon the
part of tax propagandists, with noth-
ing to fight with save rank indiffer-
ence little short of stupipdity upon i
the part of taxpayers. To get relief .
those who, like geese, are being pluck- 1
ed must wake up to the truth. To what I
extent private profit, stalkinx in the I
garments of disinterested advice anil !
service, is to be blamed represents but j
one side of the picture. Nor can we !
invent some sort of necromancy
whereby, with no effort upon the part
of ourselves, the other side of the pic-
ture may be revealed.
Normal folks are attracted by con-
structive effort. They have a love for
the earth; a desire for land owner-
ship. They are willing to take what-
ever responsibility may be involved
because, as an investment, land is
most inviting to the great mass of the
people. There are other attractive ] I
fields. It is true, but with most of us
to engage in them appears much like
facing the unknown. The average
person wants to control that into
which he puts his money and labor.
When it comes to investing in secur-
ities of railways and other utilities. |
the doings of boards of directors are J
beyond his power of cricical judgment.
However he does know enough about
them to appreciate and fear the fact
that taxation by the State and regula-
tion by boards and commissions are
leaving such enterprises such small
margins of profit and narrow zones of
individual action, that other and less
harassed fields of effort are more to
his liking.
Let it here be emphasized: Sound i
business economy in public affairs I •
means nothing less and nothing mere
neatly packed in a Christmas package
which is to be sold and mailed to any
place in the United States for 50 cents.
Mr. Crawford tells us the meeting
was well attended and that more than
200 stores in Houston will feature figs
this month, and at least 14 of these
will handle the ones put up by the
From a strict business point
of view, in the matter of real
dollars and cents, every person
I Interested in Bay City should
take The Tribune. The amount
of money the paper draws from
the national advertiser amounts
to several thousands annually
mid all we send away for it is
space in the paper. The more
subscribers we have the bet-
ter rate we can ask, so it is
to your interest, in a business
way, to see to it that everyone
takes the paper, for the sev-
eral thousands of dollars we
pull here from New York, Chi-
cago, St. Louis, Cincinnati,
Detroit and a number of other
places is, every cent of It, new
money, spent right here In Bay
City, and YOU GET YOURS.
One New York firm pays this
paper from $150 to $300 every
month in the year and you bus-
iness houses get every cent of
it. Another thing, and that is,
if it were not for the foreign
advertiser, you would not have
a daily paper, for we couldn't
afford to give YOU the service
on the patronage we get from
Bay City merchants. These
national advertisers use the
paper because it pays them,
and we are giving them a pa-
per that attracts them. The
money we get from them goes
to you. Let us say here that if
• every business in Bay City
brought in, in proportion, every
year the amount of new money
this paper brings in and sent
no more of It out than we do.
you would not need much of
anything else. Still another
thing. The more the paper re-
flects the wide-awake advertis-
ing merchants of this city the
more space the national adver-
tiser will buy and the more
money he will send you through
the paper. Don't ever get it
into your head that the na-
tional advertiser doesn't watch
your paper, or looks upon it
as insignificant and of no con-
sequence. In his eyes it is by
far the most important thing
you have in your community
and he backs his opinion with
spot cash. And that is why
your town is guaged by the
kind of paper you have. In-
deed, your very business, it-
self, is guaged by it. You have,
backing your newspaper with
their support and cash, the
richest and most powerful in-
stitutions in the world. Let us
mention a few: The American
Tobacco Co., Henry Ford, Gen-
eral Motors Corporation, Dodge
Bros., Swift & Co. Cleveland
Metal Products Co., Portland
Cement Co., Buick and Chevro-
let manufacturing concerns,
Hellwig & Co. and such pow-
erful advertising agencies as
Thos. F. ( lark Co., of New
| York, Newell Emmett Co., of
New York, .Stack Co., of Chi-
cago, Stewart-Davis Co., of
Chicago, Nelson Chessman Co.,
of Chattanooga and St. Louis,
Geoge Harrison Phelps, of De-
troit, Brotherton Co., of De-
troit and a dozen more. These
concerns represent millions
and Bay City is known to them
through The Tribune. Do you
want more of their money I if
you do, line up with them
through the columns of your
paper, help us make it a still
better paper and you will get
it. Think this over — this
trillion. If the car or truck to be
(Facts and Fiction) i
When, as has been the case of re- .
eent years, the tax on land has been <
boosted to the topmost rung of the
constitutional limit, the owner of land, .
whether he be stockman or farmer,
dairyman or truckgrower, feels the
burden. If, in the providence of di-
vine will or by a belated awakening
of the public consciousness, the tax
burden should be reduced, he would
feel relief and thank his Maker that,
after all, men in public office are not
entirely forgetful of the just rights
! of private enterprise.
I When the tax imposts are heavy the
1 owner of land and related property
I feels the burden keenly. That
I he may live he feels that he must hold
। his land, that he may hold his land
i he must pay or forfeit it to tax exac-
। tion imposed by government. Between
'the devil and the deep, blue sea, he
' must jump both ways. His land can
' not be secreted from the view of the
II assessor nor, as happens frequently
1 with personal property, can he remove
it beyond his taxing jurisdiction. And,
too, when the source of income dries
up, as it did throughout a large por-
tion of the State during the past sum-
mer and spring, his land, having been
assessed during the early days of the
i year, must pay the tax just the same;
there is no abatement. However, pub-
। lie expenditures go merrily onward;
i salary progression and public borrow-
ing. having achieved a fast strangle-
|| hold on his property and industry, re-
fuses to relax. And so the next move
is squarely up to owners of property
I bonded and taxed.
| i Of their own free will, intelligent
’ folks in the broad walks of life do
I not, as many seem to think, live for
j the sole purpose of being taxed. Neith-
L er do they subscribe to a pernicious
| doctrine that they ought to be heavily
| taxed in order that they may live.
> That they should live as God in his
I infinite wisdom intended, spendthrifts
: in public office and prodigal propa-
7 gandists out of public office must first
be taught a lesson in loyalty to the
sacred obligations of the public trust.
| Taxation essentially confiscates
part or all of the fruits of effort and
industry. Tax burdens fall upon those
whose holdings are taxed. There is
nothing to be gained by groping blind-
ly in the hope of enlisting strange,
magical processes in an effort to get
something for nothing. Burdenless
Coolidge Requested to
Name Period of Nat-
ional Repentance and
Prayer.
In the north part of town, have the
sympathy of all Palacios citizens.—
Palacios Beacon.
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Plans to Boost
Magnolia Figs
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