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...Boscombe, Dorsetshire, England, Ann Sarah Cowley hoped to live to be 100. She celebrated her 100th birthday, died next...
...retired, 100, oldest man in the Army roll, veteran of the Civil War, Indian wars, Spanish American War, Boxer Rebellion; in West Roxbury, Mass. On his 98th birthday the House of Representatives congratulated him. On his 99th birthday he received the Silver Star and the Purple Heart. On his 100th birthday President Roosevelt wrote to congratulate him "personally as well as officially...
...then radical proposal that "such degrees and modes of punishment may be discovered and suggested as may, instead of continuing habits of vice, become the means of restoring our fellow citizens to virtue and happiness." Once admitted to work in prisons, the Society flourished, changed its name in its 100th year to the Pennsylvania Prison Society. Today trained case workers instead of ministers do its alleviating; the Society's agents are the only persons allowed to enter any Pennsylvania prison at any time to interview any prisoner...
TIME regrets that it misheard Rabbi Mann's benediction, delivered in Hebrew and English, but still thinks there was good poetry in the TIME version: "May you go on, dear Preston, from strength to strength. May your dust continue to serve even unto your 100th year...
...photographic answer to this most engaging question, we turned to the University of Louisville because it is the oldest municipal university and because it is this year celebrating its 100th birthday. There we turned to Doris Counts, selected as a typical co-ed, and she kept us turning all day following her typical routine of curricular and extra-curricular activity and we only regret that space limitations forbid the use of more than just a skeleton photo-outline. Now you follow us following Dorothy Counts...