John Graham, tho Cumberland' centenarian, / who .lias, died nt.Aspatria, was hale andheartj.; almost to- the last. To the .oab;meal porridge he attributed hie good health : and long life, amWho used,to ■claim that the.i.men.of his day, -reared mainly, on porridge;*' barley, . broad, and other plain,, fare, wore; stronger and. healthier than! the present flesD-K eating and. 'tea-drinking generation.' ~. ', v .,. ~j.. Tlio recont ,'iiight .' oporation's'!' at. Porte-, mouth' liayo demonstrated, beyond any,doubt _; tlib absbluto : impossibility of' tofpedo:.crafty entering thd'harboiir without tnblr presence , , boing rovealed-by tlio powerful searclihglits. The , on'em'y niadoa detoriiiined offprt to rush' the ,, liarb'ouK Tlio .three smallest" Vessels 0f.,; tiid.' hostile- flotilk'stcamed'in from 'the 'easU ;'._ ward at full' sppdd, but were defected,'/an<r theoretically sunk' by "tho '.fire ,1 of 200;" gu.ua . couceiitrated ori' , them. ,;v '■.'! ~..'.' •
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 25, 24 October 1907, Page 2
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