See Lao-ho-k'ou on Wiktionary
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"text": "After two years of building up its operations in this way at two locations, Wei-hsien in Shantung province and Lao-ho-k'ou in Hupeh, BAT in 1915 procured over 2 million pounds of bright tobacco grown from American seed,' 435,000 pounds of flue-cured, almost all from Wei-hsien, and 1,750,000 of sun-cured, most of it from Lao-ho-k'ou.",
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