OLDEST MEN
EMPIRE’S REPLY CAPETOWN, Oct. 31. Tin if or Pomberg is a bachelor, prole ably the most incorrigible bachelor in the world. Me has shunned women whenever possible for 143 years. Now he, sits on the veldt, with the sky as his ceiling, and tin drums as his shelter from wind, taking coins as South Africa’s oldest man. Ho and Annie Lotnv, aged 130, arc (he Umpire's reply to Turkey’s succession of oldest, men. They are both new discoveries. R,niter was found resting on his trek across the veld to the Karoo to cure his asthma. Annie was almost literally unearthed from a hovel af Denver on the Rand.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19207, 26 December 1936, Page 3
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110OLDEST MEN Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19207, 26 December 1936, Page 3
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