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Show 17.") YEARS IN BOSTON. Massachusetts Man Celebrates His One Hundredth Birthday. Archibald C, Anderson, the oldest residanl of Waltham, Mass., celebrated his one hundredth birthday Wednesday. His daughter. Mrs Lucy Sterling. 0 years old, traveled 1000 miles from Toledo, ". to participate in the event. Mr. Anderson n'.'iins all his faculties with the exception of his hearing, and spends the greater part of his tune in Tending. He takes short walks in the vicinity of his home, but most of his time is spent indoors where he erijoys a comfortable ehatr, and a book or paper. pa-per. !!,- was born pn1 1807, at tu r-per r-per of Pearl and High streets Boston. Prom bis fourth to his seventeenth year he lived at the home of his ancestors ances-tors in Warren. Me., and then returned to Boston. When he Bpenl the next scv-ent scv-ent v-tive years of Ins life. For many years Mi. InderBou has been a Republican in politics, but was originallv a Whig. He lias voted for evorv President from John Quincy Adams to Theodore Roosevelt, ami alBO has seen most, of them and also Goo. Lafayette. He is a member of ihe Uni-versalisi Uni-versalisi church and until last year made ii a custom to write a poem for the annual rollcall. |