MOTHER OF FORTY-TWO
TWO FAMILIES OF TWENTY - ONE. Some people carry out very faithfully the Scriptural Injunction to be fruitful and multiply (says the “Wanganui Herald"). While a local business man was travelling: in the train recently he entered into conversation with a lady who looked about 60 years of age. She modestly informed him that sh e had been married twice, and had two families of 21, making 42 in all, and they were all alive and doing well. The second husband smilingly remarked that it was cheaper than importing them from other lands.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2340, 9 January 1926, Page 13
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