THRIVING QUINTUPLET.
GROWTH OF LITTLE MARIE. For four years Marie Dionne was the “littlest quint.” Smallest and frailest of the famous five at birth, Marie was the object of a continent’s pity as doctors fought for months to keep a slight spark of life in her body. Alarie was not only smaller and weaker than her sisters but her life was threatened by a tumour on her thigh which world famous specialists from John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore fought with radium. Now the story has changed. Alarie has almost caught up to her sisters in weight and height and threatens by her rapid progress to pass them. . Reports on the quintuplets physical progress, issued by Dr Allan , Roy Dafoe their physician. more than a month after their fourth birthday, on Alav 28, show Marie grew , half an inch and put on two pounds in a 111 That .brought her height to .‘3Bl inches, the same as Emilie’s Tt was Die first time she had equalled any or her sisters in either height or weight Annette and Cecile both are 39 inches high and Yvonne a quarter inch taller Alarie weighs 354 pounds. Cecile and Emilie 38, Annette 40 and Yvonne 39 1.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 234, 1 September 1938, Page 15
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202THRIVING QUINTUPLET. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 234, 1 September 1938, Page 15
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