Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 115, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1917 — Progress of a Lifetime. [ARTICLE]

Progress of a Lifetime.

A lady in Massachusetts recently ■ celebrated the one hundred and fourth anniversary of her birthday. The amazing progress of the world is well Illustrated by her life. The first steamship did not cross the Atlantic until she was old enough to go to School. Men still went to war on horseback or walked. There wa% no railroad, telephone,, telegraph, airships, airplane or phonograph. She was past threescore before she saw an electric light. She was beyond fourscore before any of us rode in an When she was a girl asphalt paving was unknown. She was a woman long before anybody dreamed of an elevator. At-her. birth. Cooperhad not writfen his, first XeatherstockIng story. The very oldest of that coterie of renowned authors, including Emerson, Mrs. Stowe, Hawthorne _ wKefr she was born. —"