Two centuries are the aggregate ages of these flying oldsters, Mrs. Almatia Bennett, 101, of Chicopee Fallls, Mass., and Charles W. Bradley, 99. By way of celebrating Mrs. Bennett’s 101st anniversary, they flew from Boston to Old Orchard, Me. And after an hour in the air Grandma Bennett said she would fly again on her 102nd birthday.
The Athens Messenger (Athens, Ohio) Sep 14, 1927
Samuel Chase
ANECDOTE
OF JUDGE CHASE AND SAMUEL ADAMS.A correspondent has communicated for publication the following anecdote, which, although quite familiar to us, having previously been made acquainted with it through several different sources, yet presuming it to be new to most of our readers, we insert it, tending to display the high estimation in which the great patriot alluded to was held by one, who having labored with him in the darkest periods of the Revolution, was most competent to judge of his merits. — We can also add, that a similar sentiment was avowed by the late Judge Paine* on all proper occasions; and the prevailing opinion of all those who took an active part in the Revolution which resulted in our emancipation from foreign thraldom.
The first time Judge Chase visited Boston, he was introduced at one place and another, where he dined, to nearly all our distinguished men; but wondered that he did not see or hear any thing of Samuel Adams. At length he asked, where is your famous Samuel Adams? He was answered, Mr. Adams is in the shade, and he is now seldom seen or mentioned. Be that as it may, said the Judge, I will not leave Boston until I have paid my profound respects to that great man. But he is in his dotage; old and broken down. I am sorry for it said the Judge, but rather increases than diminishes my strong desire to pay him the homage of my profound respect; for said he, had it not been for Samuel Adams, I should not have been where I now am, a Judge in the Court of the United States; nay, he added, there would have been no United States for any of us to dwell in and boast of — He accordingly waited on him, and spoke to him, and of him, as the greatest man and the most meritorious patriot of the Revolution.
Samuel Adams
Two things threw Samuel Adams into the shade. 1st. He opposed, with all his might, the return of the refugees and royalists; while Alexander Hamilton did all in his power to facilitate their reception, and ensure their welcome. This conferred favor and popularity on the latter, and cast an odium on the former.
2d. His capacious and active mind was kept so constantly on the stretch, during more than thirty years, that its energies broke down its material frame before he came to the chair of government in this commonwealth. There are but few now living who can remember Samuel Adams when he was the main spring of our opposition to Britain, and our faithful pilot on the tempestuous sea of liberty.
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*Judges Chase and Paine, it will be remembered, were decided federalists. — Boston Chron.
Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) Aug 25, 1819
YesterYear Once More 