Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1911 — Toiling Eighty-Six Years [ARTICLE]

Toiling Eighty-Six Years

Chicagoan, Aged 92, Expects to Live Long Enough to Ride In Airship— Longevity Rules. Chicago.—William Fuller, 1467 Indiana avenue, claims Chicago’s long-dis-tance record for working. ■ He is now in his ninety-second year. He is employed every day and a good many nights, and he has been toiling for eighty-six years. To the fact that he is a great eater of apples the veteran attributes his ability to retain his mental and physical powers. “An apple a day keeps the doctor away,” is his favorite maxim. For fifty years he has eaten at least one Baldwin, Jonathan, or pippin in every twenty-four hours. He has become a connoisseur of the fruit He knows what the apple crop will be. He has kept track of the apple-raising industry every season for a half-cen-tury. i Mr. Fuller is now employed as' an elevator conductor. “I expect to live long enough to ride to work in an airship,” he said. “I haven't even begun to think about dying. “While I am waiting for the airship to get a bit more popular I walk more C'.an a mile to work every day and home again at night I never felt better in my Mfe.” He gives these rules to young people seeking health and longevity: “Live a clean, upright life. “Give both yourself and the other fellow a square deal. \ w “Do not abuse your body or your soul. “Work hard, eat simple food, shun rich diet “Get plenty of sleep and eat apples before retiring. “If you do this you caa depend on

100 years to lay up money for funeral expenses.” ~ Mr. Fuller Is a Virginian. He came west early in life and worked until the Civil war began, when he went back to his home, qnd fought throughout the long struggle. He ascaped serious injury in spite of hard service and many battles. Then he went back to 'selling furniture in a small Illinois town. Here his wife died. He says she followed his rules and died of pneumonia and not of the debilities of old age.