Preposterously Old Columbus Woman: “I guess I’m alive.”

It is Carrie Rausch’s birthday today. Who is Carrie Rausch? Well, Carrie Rausch is an adorable woman living at a senior center in Upper Arlington and today she turned 108 years old.

108.

One-hundred and eight.

What was taking place 108 years ago, in the year 1909 — today? Well…nothing of note, so we’re just going to look at the whole year:

• January 28 – The last United States troops leave Cuba after being there since the Spanish–American War of 1898.
• March 4 – William Howard Taft is sworn in as President of the United States.
• The Ottoman Empire was still around.
• The United States Senate entered the automotive age with the inauguration of transportation by electric cars, running underground through a tunnel between the new Senate Office Building and the United States Capitol.
• There were only 46 stars on the US Flag.
• Mar 31 Gustav Mahler conducts NY Philharmonic for his 1st time
• Apr 6 North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary & Matthew Henson
• Carrie Rausch was born.

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