QUINS ALL RIGHT, BUT-!
A report that quintuplets had been born at Southend caused great excitement in the resort recently. Four girls and a boy! Southend would be on the Front Page. Reporters, photographers, film men and representatives of infant food manufacturers raced to the town. The telephone clerk at the Central Police Station had no peace. Then the true facts were revealed. A mother, had certainly given birth to quins, but the mother was Nurse Pirrie’s Alsatian, Betty. Nurse Pirrie, whose telephone was constantly ringing, is wondering how the rumour, spread. All she knows is that this message was sent to Barking: “Betty has had Quins, four girls and a boy. All well,” The message was to her sister.
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Northern Advocate, 30 May 1936, Page 8
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120QUINS ALL RIGHT, BUT-! Northern Advocate, 30 May 1936, Page 8
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