Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 284, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1912 — Marvelous Swimming Record. [ARTICLE]

Marvelous Swimming Record.

Peter John Newell, the aged Samoan swimmer, who for more than twenty years held the record for long distance and endurance swims, broke his own record by remaining 37 hours and 12 minutes In the water without support of any kind and without partaking of food. Newell's great feat was accomplished on his sixty-eighth birthday anniversary.