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Show SHE IS 134 YEARS OLD Aged Negress Smoked Her ' Old Black Pipe on An-nirersary An-nirersary of Birth. PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 17. Bedridden and blind and actually shriveled by the years that have passed over her head, Mra Mary McDonald filled and lighted her little black pipe and contentedly smoked on her one hundred and thirty-fourth thirty-fourth birthday. Mrs. McDonald, who is believed to oe the oldest person in the country, la an inmate in-mate of the Home of Aged and Infirm Colored Persons, Forty-fourth street and Glrard avenue. Away back in the dim past she waa born in Frogtown. a settlement settle-ment rear Valley Foige, but the year of her birth is on record as 1770, and it is believed be-lieved to be authentic. Until recently tho aged woman was able to move about pretty well, but she Is in bed now. and wa too -ill to be seen today. At the home the attendants visited visit-ed her room to congratulate her and drop a cheerful word. |