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Show 51 PEOPLE and j EVENTS : HAS SMOKED FOR 80 VEAR Mra. Lorlca Cox la Now 101 and III Still Hal and Hearty. ( The eighteenth rcntury had twelve days or life In It. the plantation of Columhln. then a part of the common-1 wealth of Mnaaachuaetta. had been at1 organized town for four yeara, and N'nnolcnn llonanarta wa tho moat dreaded man on earth, when a glii baby u horn to the family or Mr and Mr. Ramuel Tlnney, at Columbia. Colum-bia. Maine. Since that birthday lo Jnnunry. inn year ago. Utile lirlc Tlnney. aa she wa called, haa had time (o learn her alphabet rrom th family lllhle. to grow up to womanhood woman-hood and get ninrrled to Jamea Cox, who died In the army while serving In the Twenty accond Maine regiment. I'd to outlive all her hrothrra, (lag ti r and playmate. I K:io waa In good health lent Mnn-I day, which wn her KKId birthday. Slid! PcM Mra. Cox a Sh I To-day. learned to amoke a corncob pipe whet he waa l'J yeara or age by takln her mother' plpo to the Arcplaro ant lighting It among the hot ashea. A first the taato of the amoke made he Ick, but ahe loon got over thli trouble, and haa amoked ronatantl' ffir more than eighty yeara, using hal a pound of rut plug tobnrco evel week and alwaya taking a long amoka I before retiring at night. |