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Show FEWER MARRIAGES BUT MORE BIRTHS IN BOSTON Boston. July 3 Boston's crop ot Juno brides was a failure, according to the city registrar's books, for Just thirty couples fewer embarked upon a life of wedded olisa in Boston during dur-ing this June than during tho samo month last year. While tho failure of tho matrimonial crop for Juno was a source of much comment, It was tho accomplishment of tho stork during tho first six months of this year that aroused tho most interest. From January 1 to July 1, tho births of Just 3,593 babies wero recorded, an increase of 399 oor tho figures for tho same period last year. During Juno 1, 117 couples took out licenses to wed, as against 1,147 laat year. |