THE RICHEST MAN.
ENJOYS LIFE AT EIGHTY-FOUR. SIMPLE LIVING. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright Received July 9, 9.45 p.m. New York, July 9. Mr. John D. Rockefeller, who is still probably the richest man in the world, yesterday celebrated his eighty-fourth birthday at his home in a local suburb. Mr. Rockefeller’s life twenty-five years ago was despaired of, owing to ill-health. His physician to-day predicts that he will live to be a hundred by reason of his rigid diet and simple life. He rises early, plays a few holes of golf every day, wears warm clothing and has congenial friends. Mr. Rockefeller on each birthday has a band concert, but as yesterday was Sunday he went instead to a church which his friends built, and distributed among the children fifteen new five-cent nieces or bright pennies. Mr. Rockefeller, when asked for a statement, said: “There are too many people who talk in this world; I had better be silent.” He has distributed five hundred million dollars in various philanthropic works.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 July 1923, Page 5
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