A guest of honor at the Philadelphia Board of Trade's 100th anniversary dinner last week was Dr. Charlotte DeGolier Davenport, a spry little wisp of a woman who lately celebrated her 100th birthday. Surrounded by newshawks, she puffed cigarets as she talked vigorously of this & that. She said that she was born in 1824, the daughter of a Russian prince named Paszkoff, married when she was 15, had a baby when she was 16, was widowed a year later. At 18 she married again and had ten sons, all still living....
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