America's "Florence Nightingale** was 1(12 years of age on June 26. She is Mrs Minerva Hartmann, believed to be the world's oldest war nurse. Sho is a little, rugged-laced woman who ekes out a precarious living in a San Francisco suburb oy doing crochet work. Minerva—as she is affectionately called—served in lour wars— Ihe American Revolutionary War, the Indian and the Spanish Wars, and the Philippine insurrection. But she has never drawn n pension from the Government, because the records of her service have been lost, and when the people of California started a fund to hoip her she refused to take a penny.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21247, 20 August 1934, Page 13
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