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Show Of 23,021 births in Chicago last year, the fathers of only 5286 were Americans Ameri-cans that is. born in the United States while the remaining 17,735 were born in foreign countries. Of the mothers of these children, ("'217 were Americans, ; as against 5108 Germans and 1274 Irish, j This indicates that the number of men of foreign birth who married women j born in the United States is large. In j American births the females outnumber the males, but the number of male im- j migrants is greater than tho number of females. |