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JASPER GARRISON, 107, Spanish-American War veteran, died Thursday. Garrison enlisted in the 4th Illinois Volunteer Army in June 1898 and spent nine months in Cuba during the war. He said last year he had lived so long because he never smoked or drank. His wife died in 1962.