Americans, born of native American parents, have a longer life expectation than persons of any foreign group, excepting Russians, who are mostly Jews in New York state, and who are noted for their longevity, declared C. B. McKenna, in a recent address before the Historical Society of Trinity College, Dublin, as reported in a recent copyrighted dispatch to the New York “Evening Post.”
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