Onions for Long Life.
A woman who made a life-long habit of eating raw onions lately died at the age of 120 years in Torreon, a large town in Coahuila State, about 700 miles north of Mexico City, states an exchange. This woman, Senora Tomassa Garza, possessed all her faculties to the end, and was in the best of health until a few days before she died. Documents exhibited to the town officials by the deceased’s relatives prove that she wag born in a hamlet near Torreon in th., year 1812. Senora Garza survived tm-*j husbands, but the fourth has outlived her. The woman’s relatives attribute her long life to her fondness for raw onions, a vegetable which she ate at each of the three daily meals she consumed up to her dying day.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 February 1933, Page 4 (Supplement)
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