SPANISH CENTENARIAN.
DEATH AT 113,
Tho death at Ifalaga (Spain) of a man named Juan Pastrana Garcia has terminated a. life of extraordinary length. He was born at Almoxria iu 17119, being thus 113 years old at tho time of bis death. Ho had known Kings Carlos IV, Joseph Napoleon, and Fernando 711, (lie Regency Queen, Maria- Oristinn, IsaM 11, and the Provisional Government, Amadco of Savoy, the Republic and Restoration, Alfonso XII, ihe Itegoncy of Iho present. Qui-cn-Mother, and Alfonso XIII. Pastrana belonged io a. modv-L family of agricultural labourers. /Io served for twenty-five years with Ihe Tejada family in his native town until that family ljerame pxtiiitl. Aftcnvyrds he served Don.-v Ana Alvaiw. dc Toledo during anolbcr fifty years until that family also died (int. Pastrami was a bachelor, and mi Id hi." do.itli followed his vocation in a Wfnctly iiorimil innnner, bpitiK an cailv riser, and prost-rviiig his sight In Hit lasl.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1368, 20 February 1912, Page 3
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155SPANISH CENTENARIAN. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1368, 20 February 1912, Page 3
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