AN AGE AGGREGATE
An, English family of ten brothers and sisters have excellent claims ;to ba called modern Methuselahs. - Their ages total 817 years 10 months, thu oldest being 94 years and the youngest 70. Another brother died last year when he was 90. The family cam? from Horning, Norfolk, and the lather was a blacksmith, who died at the agJ of 57. One of the sisters said she 'at* tributed the advanced ages of the family to the fact that "in my home we baked our own bread, made our own butter, brewed our own tieer, an:l killed our own cattle for meat."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 140, 15 June 1936, Page 12
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104AN AGE AGGREGATE Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 140, 15 June 1936, Page 12
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