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Show BOY IS BORN ON STEAMER Captain Gives Feast and Infant Is Named "Steamboat Bill" Evansvllle, Indiana, Sept. 2C. A baby boy was born on tho steamer Bowling Green on Green River, a few miles from hero. Mrs. Essie Joiner, who boarded tho boat at Eastwood Landing, Kentucky, Is tho mother. Tho child was a 12 pounder and tho boat was stopped and a physician summoned from the nearest landing. In honor of tho Stork's arrlvnl the captain of tho craft, Elmoro Bewlcy, ordered n feast spread. Tho passengers passen-gers and crow then took a voto nnd unanimously decided to nnmo the Infant In-fant "Steamboat Bill" Joiner. |