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Show 1 ADMIRAL GEORGE j DEWEY, who yesterday celebrated his seventy-ninth birthTay and received congratulations con-gratulations while at work in his office. DEWEY CELEBRATES eiRiijiiesi Observes Day by Hearing Read Diary of His Action Ac-tion in 1866. WASHINGTON, Dec' 26. Admiral Dewey was 79 years old today, and Secretary Secre-tary Daniels and his council and most of the high ranking officers of the navy-made navy-made their congratulations in person at his office. Secretary Daniels read to the admiral part of a diary kept by an officer of the United States ship Colorado, dated December De-cember J6, 1S66, which told how First Lieutenant George Dewey had tried to make the Christmas season on the bid steam frigate happy by giving each bluejacket blue-jacket a bottle of wine. |