Word: oldest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...DEMOCRATIC PARTY: A HISTORY-Frank R. Kent-Century ($4). Mr. Kent, hot-pointed commentator of the Baltimore Sunpapers, strives for quiet lucidity in this book; tells a simple, well-connected story of the oldest party...
Died. Mrs. Matilda Bedle Voorhees, not quite 105; of old age; in Asbury Park, N. J. Last spring Sir Charles Frederick Higham, famed London advertisingman awarded her, as the oldest teadrinker, $500, a gift from the India Tea Growers' Association...
...this statement, Anatomist Kappers cast doubt on current notions about nicotine. Many U. S. doctors have contended and often hoped to prove that smoking does no harm. In Newark, N. J., five children of the Fillimon family have been smoking full-sized cigars since the age of two. The oldest, Frank, 11, now averages five cigars a day. All of these children appear healthy, go to school regularly, get good grades...
...Order of St. Sylvester, reputedly the oldest and once most prized honor, of which there are no U. S. holders. In 1926 Pius XI created His Excellency the Hon. Charles Dunbar Burgess King, President of the Negro Republic of Liberia, Knight Grand Cross of the Order...
...Berlin-Paris by the oldest hackman of Wannsee [a Berlin suburb], who had the honor of making his last voyage in Fiacre 120 from Berlin to Paris because horses are destined to extinction...