A MULTI-MILLIONAIRE.
EIGHTY-FOURTH BIRTHDAY
HEALTH REGAINED BY SIMPLE LIFE.
(Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.i (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)
NEW YORK, July 9.
John D. Rockefeller, still probably the richest man in the world, yesterday celebrated his eighty-fourth birthday at his home in a local suburb. t
Rockefeller’s life twenty-five year's ago was despaired of owing to ill-health, but his physician to-day predicts he will live to be one hundred by reason of his rigid diet and simplo life. He rises early, plays a few holes of golf every day, wears warm clothing, and lias congenial friends.
On each birthday Rockefeller has a hand concert, but as yesterday was Sunday, hci went instead to the church which his fundg built, and distributed among the children fifteen! new five cent pieces. Formerly it was his custom to distribute ten cent pieces or bright pieces.
Rockefeller, when asked for a statement, said : “There are too many people who talk in this world. I had better bo silent.”
Rockefeller has distributed 500,000,000 dollars in various philanthropic works.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16174, 10 July 1923, Page 3
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