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Show 00 VETERAN MARINER MAY. STILL BE PUMPING GRASS VALLEY. Cal, Aug. 7 Sixty-eight years after he guve himself him-self up for lost in a shipwreck off Cape Horn, youth America. H B. Nl( hols la vigorous enough to conduct con-duct a dairy here. Nichols was a paa-senger paa-senger on tho Fannlo Major, a sail-1 sail-1 Ing vessel which went on the rocks I during a storm on July 4, 1862. After I a day spent by the crew and pa-seen-' gers In manning the pumps and In prayer, the craft rondo port and. being be-ing temporarily repaired, managed to reach San Francisco in September of that year. Nichols Is 84 years old. - |