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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 414, 25 January 1909, Page 6

'Employees at a Yarmouth factory .have offered to subscribe £100 yearly towards the cost of a children's ward in the local/hospital. . ' . . ■■''■■.. '■•■. ;.':■ '' ■: '■■■ ■ Isaac Barley, a native of East Garston,. a little village in Berkshire, probably takes rank as the oldest applicant for an old age pension. He is a hundred and one. years old, and his application,' which, went in this week, derives particular interest from the fact that a daughter, who is seventy-one, has applied also. Isaac Earley has lived in his present cottage for the last seventy years, and has six children living; of. .whom the oldest is seventy-five and the youngest fiftythree. He is still halo enough to'hqbble about the village on . two sticks,, and' his daughter, when questioned as to her father's health,. replied, ."Father's;all;right. '■,Why, a little while ago ho went out and dug up all his potatoes. -That's .not bad for a hundred and one, is it?" ;' .'. :.. : "Woode's Peppermint Cnre appears to bring Your trade amongst tho Bnuggesi, I 'Bpos'e it won't cure everything?" "Well, no," replied the druEßist. : "It won't cure everything, at least, Unless I'm much mistaken!" • "What won't it cure ui; man or beaiat?". Said be i "It won't pure bacon I" 3