Mrs Maria Rose, a remarkable old lady, has just died at Holbeach St. John’s, South Lincolnshire, at the great age of ninety-nine. She preserved her faculties to the last, and it is recorded of her that she learned music at the age of seventy. Up to ninety-five she had never received a telegram. Frank Gad shy, who has lost his right leg, accomplished the big feat of swimming from Hatsings pier to Eastbourne pier, a distance of fourteen miles as the crow' flies, in the excellent time, of five hours forty minutes. Professor Davenport once tried the swim, but had to give up at Bexhill.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3363, 1 November 1911, Page 8
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105Page 8 Advertisements Column 1 Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3363, 1 November 1911, Page 8
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