THE WORLD’S OLDEST MAN?—One hundred and fiftyseven years is said to be the age of this patriarch. Yekup Shoua, the oldest man in Soviet Russia, and believed to be the oldest human on the face of the earth. All Shoua's faculties are still in good working order. He walks a mile or two each day in the mountains near his native Gvada, U.S.S.R., and looks forward to many more years.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20668, 5 March 1937, Page 12
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70THE WORLD’S OLDEST MAN?—One hundred and fiftyseven years is said to be the age of this patriarch. Yekup Shoua, the oldest man in Soviet Russia, and believed to be the oldest human on the face of the earth. All Shoua's faculties are still in good working order. He walks a mile or two each day in the mountains near his native Gvada, U.S.S.R., and looks forward to many more years. Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20668, 5 March 1937, Page 12
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