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Show An English Centenarian. Thomas Moore, an inmate of the King's Lynn infirmary, attained his 101st birthday recently, and received the congratulations of several friends dmongst whom was his youngest brother, 70 years old. The centenarian centenari-an is the eldest of a family of nine. His mother died at the age of 102, and his father, whom he remembers being pressed for the navy, died, aged 96. t?uS a Slight failinS in his eyesight, eye-sight, but otherwise he retains all his faculties unimpaired. , In his younger days he visited all the counties of Eng. land as a traveling conjurer. Later in lite he became a peddler of nuts and oranges, an occupation which ha followed until well into his 100th year. London Telegraph. |