EIGHTY-FIVE YEARS AGO
Sir,—Good is the story of the total abstainer lecturer telling of a doctor who took a daily spot of brandy, dying at 110, and of another doctor saying that he would have lived another 110 years only for the daily spot of brandy. Are long-livers usually total abstainers? I doubt this very much. As a youth and young man in Dunedin I can recall many of the prohibition stalwarts of the 1880’s and 1890’s. None of them I can recall lived to 110, or even had lives out of the ordinary in length. They seemed to die off just like the rest of us. I am, etc., Moderation.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26631, 29 November 1947, Page 9
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111EIGHTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Otago Daily Times, Issue 26631, 29 November 1947, Page 9
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