Show R n EV A 0 R 4 uti abe yo bellee s q s n q T y 4 V 4 A A 88 4 olier y iv i V 9 adlan 7 12 va clumbus Cd umbus was it boy lie tin and his re rc purll 01 ol men and 11 who hail had to 0 o two io s tio years and on in I 1 deiy old penpit indeed por for diat lit in tile lie iffet nth century ventury ali 11 alie ii spun inin wag but nile ion than six cari 9 11 in I 1 t the e i united anit it s states lutes today the nerr n alf lafr poi i tut fifty six v vr ir r lit in 1910 it wa us about fifty aft one in and in 1 for doity ty alin I 1 of t libles giving the cp f nf f lift life in tit ions of the world ho in ih ili ani re i isis ei e i lei in lite iho life spun span V I 1 I 1 it HIP I 1 I 1 if ici i ci t ept optima I 1 on of nf I 1 limiti nil in i tier 1 llie lit expect at I 1 on lir iii tic the cir II 11 isil MS twenty n bears mid and for tit tin liioi 1901 ihl 1911 ifs ans elloul awen tu n ars with this exception flie in world cc iiii it 1 bacorn ing it 11 henl ilder lili it in me in the limit set liy by ale lisul nilst Is linn vore re beur cin arid ten len but today it bearns no mile ft fant at ut lit till all to afie lia or ar tit u your nir wen welleth leth birthday atie afie of 1920 lilo 0 gave fue uncle sam 1561 L 1 01 sons ions and add 2700 1 datig liter at least one hundred yeara vars old some of ahee undoubtedly were much beyond the lie mark but lite he census makes no distin etim un belcon centenarians centen arians and lenar lans A fur us as tile the census Is concerned you gre are no worthier of if note nt at one hundred text ten or more than linn yon ii are nt jet one hundred unless of course you a aie e u it a methuselah elith arid and can prove it iv few of us study the enins how pcr er and where we e hear of the ext existence tence tit of a cen fe narlan it Is usually that hat he or she has just become we one has hn celebrated a still later anniversary or hns tied died sometimes ob seres J n B glider gilder in the N new ew yn yet tk times rii neB he be Is a person of more or ir less note alk lahe the late ex senator cole of california aho who vho died nt at one hundred indred ln two or tle te chairman of the lite baird of lie united states trust company who alio tire on augast 26 celebrated tits hla one hundred birthday migny of the oldest talks in this country were loni bons abroad a goodly number of the ho madve born boni ld tire lire oc cc nef froes which sugg burretto BUR Resto estill that s dark skin constitutes a protective coloring A imling to be noted about all of efthem thein Is a that the slumber number of their descendants Is not las as a rule proportioned ot to their offe age here for ex binale is li a pioneer of marquette mich leaving him nt at one hundred two a son and two augilera augh lera while a tonawanda Tonn wauda ila woman dy ing tile the twit next lay at only ninety Is survived by children unto the third generation arid and to tile he bumber of 14 notwithstanding cje incontrovertible evidence erl dence for cases of extreme longevity two engleh writers of f note in the last century saw fit to ques olnes tion lion tile the of hf human life extending exten dinK lippre lala stably beyond five score years ears thuy had no other oilier bilt a comans womans reason they alie thought khoii lil it so bemuse because they it so go the very eri oldest people like the lie wl lr eloit tire seldom to ix ie found in our immediate neigh to or even een in our own country countr they live very far away take 7 zorah orah for instance a Kur ellab porter resident in w we Are jold for more than one hundred twenty years W whose t croul fron IS 15 ts Is said to be supported by a birth rw and the tea testimony of a dozen doxen men tint li hi was air bir old nian mein when they were ards too to poor poo r to buy much meat he has relied chiefly of on dried let legumes le dumes lames bread raisins figs honey anid and ten tea water he alps occasionally but and tobacco he haill ha always abjured tili further off in n the he vill villaire aize of lil lochin per irr li lives elivea din an old koidula who was discovered nut not biting ego aco by the first farst census of that coul country itry taken for flip of the american administrator of tile hie purse abo teheran correspondent of the london dally express reported in january Jan tant tills oils women was waa then lien one hundred forty sir pi ard oll that tier her son ives was sl one hundred seventeen bev enteen we ve nn larts wt left in tile dark as to how they aeh achieved feed their bue burden of years I 1 1 bren in amejka AmerS ca however one can live to lie hee fairly old all a ya vries shown by mrs keziah el izabeth 11 0 p t U xo 7 4 q 0 J yaa 05 obera J aulta colored woman whose parents built a log cabin at gettysburg tong long before pick etts charge set the high water mark of the con in ID that neighborhood at her death last july nonagenarians said she had bad been on an old woman when they were young and relatives and friends said the family bible indicated that she was waa born in 1804 joseph davis who died in milwaukee ot at one hundred twenty was reported to be one of the oldest men in the united states lie he may well have bjern born a slave lie cooked meals for confederate soldiers until and perhaps 9 after lincoln emancipated him and a few million others of his race ills ilia oldest surviving son fon turned ninety flie five and fifty fafty two years older than tits his youngest brother has haa the fathers birth certificate A native of mount vernon va whose father Is sold said to ta lave have been one of attendants mrs catherine minor of boston claimed to be one hundred bundred eighteen when she herself died ken luckas prize centenarian was nas mrs cella celia carter who ho died near Flemings flemingsburg burg last june her according to the best records being one hundred seventeen I 1 ier her faculties were 4 preserved to tin an unusual degree four generations of her descendants wend ants survived her when death transported sarla Tor from Sa gualda grande santa clara cuba she was found though only two yen years younger than sirs airs carter mn in full posses lon of her faculties thomas Shan shannon noD an irish land leaguer who lind had once helped bellied to plow pai Par nells land when its hla famous leader emder was in jail died at ashford wick low a al the reputed age of one hundred fifteen five weeks after celebrating tier one hundred fourteenth birthday peshe malke passed anway at tile the harlem home of the lie daughters of israel where she had bad spent tier her last six sh years pressed dressed to reele receive some home sixty well wishers on her lust last birthday and propped up in bed she was waa aked a ked what slip she would like best as a birt birthday liday present A she jested site she had had one presumably smooth ylia l its aa slie site whiskers porn born in ireland in 1812 and arriving in this country in t mrs rose ganey who died died tills this sear at albion neb was survived by bv four sons isom one had married and left home the other three abree the oldest now eighty one ind and the th youngest evenly remained bachelors for tier her sake they tle denied themselves more than wives to 0 o please her ber amig these ices being lite lie radio the telephone ione and the automobile new tangled con trap bons for which their ni other had no liking nearly a year ago meyer lebowitz was wall carried by ills grandchildren to the synagogue in It ivington street new york to worship on his fits one me hundred eleventh birthday lie he had been a moderate smoker till long after he crossed the een cen tury stile that lie he had ali d to cross cirs it at nil all b W ascribed to liming having observed moderation to la all things for lamch wh who oded died tit at the hebrew home in baltimore in april at the age of one 1 hundred eleven the moderate claim was made that he be was perhaps ui tb oldest man of his race in that city paunch came caine from Su walLI ki poland three years ago to see three sons soni arid and a daughter settled here but declined to be a burden upon any of them ills wife a spry old lady indy of one hundred nine walked home from the funeral disdaining several offers of a ride born at mastic L li ij january 25 1818 1815 martha bradley a full blooded indian woman lived ak at one on time in new york but SOUK some twenty six years ago moved to asbury park N J where after aate r fifteen yearn employ anent in domestic service site because he cuine at the age of one hundred bundred tin in inmate of form farm lie county at tier her death drier tier first illness she lacked only n fortnight of being one hundred eleven A lover of candy she aln also liked a wee bit of gin now and then arid and held prohibition to he be all wrong dating from froin the clift ant day of tile lie year 1811 john ai orron born in the Provi province uce of quebec but for the file past forty years a resident of vermont was still capable of a fair dayn work jet at one hundred ten A year earlier lie be hall bad celebrated lite lila birthday by cutting a cord of wood some of tile the most famous headline names of today are those of men well above the lie biblical tareq threescore score years oars and ten following Is a list as aa compiled by 1 the world almanac the age at tho the last birthday Is 1 given anil and the lint Is dated as aa of october Oct olier 1 1125 1925 one hundred seven ara sarah bosworth bradford of Duit tord conn real daughter of the revolution one hundred ta three jphn A stewart banker new york binet six alx lx john R voorhis president of the board bilard if if elections leet lons new york city ninety five lra sleeker meeker oregon pioneer ninety two irot william Wll llant F I 1 warren formet former president of honton borton ninety one 4 li nuncey at M former united states state and chair chairman mao odthe bourd board of the new aorl railroad rall rond james brown herreshoff re shoff ya i r lit builder Iti inventor ninety 1 arx william II 11 felton of gla first woman V to le be united states senator 1 ra ri I 1 brewer lighty nine losena 0 cannon former congressman from 1141 illinois lyman ionian J ouge gage former see ec retney n if tie treasury eighty eight washington A engineer built the bri okkie bridge marvin mariln hughett rall rond road exe nillie 1 P ia anille le I lule pre of france ISOM lOO A dupont former united stated edwird 11 I 1 weston long distance walkr ox alv john inal on iler founder of the fire standard cil it co 0 o P clyde steiro owner henry phipps Ihl 1 eighty nie liben li ien E F in jurist former governor po vernor of if george F I 1 baker bank er naw york lork thomax hardy un blikh novelist heivry holt new york lut barlotti Carl otla for mer en press of if gait W wingate founder public Scholl S 14 athletic league lean ue claud stoner monet mist nril t whily delphry four oliver oilier wenbell Wen lell jell united SM Sup ireine reule court jutie beau firina r prem loir of france |