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Show A WRESTLER AT 03. "I can't see Baltimore for the houses." This was what Timothy Kennle said when he came back to Baltimore after an absence of seventy-three years, and during dur-ing the few days he has been here he has ben busy learning the new city. He has come from Flint. Mich., to live with hl daughter, Mrs. Cogshall, wife of Dr. Bela Cogshall, 824 Hamilton terrace. Mr. Kennie was a lumberman In his young days, and rafted logs down the Suequehanna to Havre de Grace, where he sold them to be cut up into lumber. Then he and hi raftsmen came to Baltimore, Balti-more, and after spending some time and money made their way back to the lumber lum-ber reglffn. "Why, Baltimare wasn't anything but a village, then, and now It is a big city-one city-one that I couldn't see for the houses. Why, I couMn't even see Baltimore harbor har-bor for the ships, both steam and sail, and I particularly wanted to see the old Patapsco, and I went there the first couple of days I was back. It don't look much like it used to. About the only thing about Baltimore that hasn't changed, I believe, is the climate." Mr. Kennle Is a young man of 93 years. He says he feels just as young and light-hearted light-hearted as he did when he was In his prime of life, and he even doubts whether he has passed his prime. He la rather strong and huaky for 92. and he tells with pride of how he threw. In a wrestling match, a young man whom he found fighting another fellow up in Michigan. He does not wear glacses. nor Is his hearing hear-ing Impaired. Baltimore Sun. |