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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1921
Page
3
The article highlights Mr. and Mrs. Bell of Oconto county who celebrate 104 and 81 years of life respectively. It notes their long marriage of eighty-one years and plans toward a possible hundredth anniversary, with rich reminiscences from Mr. Bell about his Irish birth and life spanning a century.
A soldier recalls that if he had known General Pershing would decorate animals he would have refrained from shooting his largest cootie.
In Abrams village Wisconsin Mr James Bell Sr 104 and Mrs Bell 102 are touted as the nation’s oldest couple. They perform daily chores with Mr Bell collecting mail and Mrs Bell reading newspapers aloud. The Bells have lived with their son James Bell Jr and are highlighted as a local distinction.
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