LIVED SINCE 1772
CLAIM BY AN INDIAN REVELATION BY CENSUS CALCUTTA. Dec. 1 The census/ of India has revealed a man who claims to be 160 years old. The Indian Mutiny was in 1357, and this modern Methuselah remembers it as occurring in his late middle age. His second full-grown set of teeth have been worn down to their sockets with chewing, but he still enjoys enormous meals. lie declares he was born when Warren Hastings was ruling British India in 1772. The census also reveals a 10 per cent increase in population during the last 10 years to 352,000,000.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21360, 8 December 1932, Page 12
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