The Omaha Sunday Bee
ROTOGRAVURE
SECTION
gAPRU 30
1922
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This ( Rev, C C. RW
f Cil Bluffs, reading
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maay, many ysrs He
celebrated bis 101st birth,
day anniversary Utl Sp
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gregationalism in western
Iowa end organised the
first cbarcbes ia Couacil
Bluffs and Oatki 70
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As an Iriah celleaa 85 year axe
she was "as pretty a thry make
cat." Mr. Pat Convoy, 5207 Sooth
Fiftieth street. confided to the pho
tographer whea he took this pictare.
Her face is low seamed with the
wrinkles of 102 years, hat she's still
active. "Grandma" says she has no
rules for longevity, but it may be of
interest to note she enjoys a pipe
and strong tobacco, a circumstance
that may form the basis of argu
ment in favor of the threatened re
vival of pipe smoking among women
of today.
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Don Carlos Starr, known to inhabitants of his homo
village. Dunning, Neb., as "Uncle Pete," bears the dis
tinction of being the oldest person in Nebraska. He
reached his 104th birthday anniversary April 8. Mr.
Starr was born in Pavilion, N. Y., and hotnesteaded in
Blaine county, Nebraska, in 1887. He plowed the first
furrow in the sand hills of, that section and was Blaine
county's first county assessor. He had always enjoyed
robust health until six months ago, when he suffered
a light stroke of paralysis. During the world war,
when labor was scare on Nebraska ranches, "Uncle
Pete" did his "bit" by riding a mower all day in the
hay fields and asiitting with farm chores at night.
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Mrs. Willism Rothschild,
719 South Thirty .eighth
street, celebrated her 100th
birthday anniversary April
IS. "I may be a bit old in
years, she told the camera
man, "bt I haven't lost all
my youthful ways." Where
Don, she refused to be
photographed uatil she had
rearranged her hair and
pat on her very best shawl.
Then she posed, reading an
exciting chapter front that
very modern novel, "Idle
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Nathan Carey, age 102, still retains
an active interest in world events and
the affairs of his community, though
now totally blind and compelled by
failing health to spend most of his time
in his room. He lives wi'h his sop,
Lester, in Upland, Neb. This centen
arian was born in Berne, N. Y., and fct
the age of 27 pioneered to Wisconsin
He served through the civil war in the
Thirty-sixth Wisconsin volunteers and
settled after the war in Iowa, later
moving to Nebraska. Mrs. Estella An
derson, Omaha, is one of his five living
children.
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Mrs. Johanna Anderson, age 103, of
Benedict, Neb., came from Switzerland to
America with her husband in 1871. They
settled on a farm aear Benedict, Neb., in
1880. The husband died 17 years ago.
Mrs. Anderson has five living children,
nine grandchildren, and nine great graad-
children, all residents of Nebraska.
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Here's another centenarian, a century
plant which has come into full bloom
after 100 years of patient growth. The
photograph was taken at Miami, Fla.
Dewell photo.
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Here is Mrs. Anna Raon. aee 102. ku..
ith her knitting, in which she takes great Je-
ligh!. Weaving rag rugs
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centenarian hobbies. Mrs. Rapp's birthdav
May 19. She li
Anna Pierson, of Aurora, Neb.
ves with a daughter, Mrs.
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