ONIONS FOR LONGEVITY.
A -woman who made a lifelong habit of eating raw onions has Just died at the age of 120 years in Torreon, a large town in Coahuila State, about 700 miles north of Mexico City. This woman, Senora Tomasa Garza, possessed all her faculties to the end, and was iu thfe b?st of health until a few days before she died. Documents exhibited to the town officials by the deceased relatives prove that she was born in a hamlqt near Torreon in the year 1812. Senora Garza survived three husbands, but the four has outlived her. The woman s relatives attribute her long life , tc > her w S she for raw onions, a vegetable ate at each of the three daily meals she consumed up to her dying
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 21, 26 January 1933, Page 9
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131ONIONS FOR LONGEVITY. Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 21, 26 January 1933, Page 9
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