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Show Two Record Infants This Year in "The Town Where Big Babies Grow" I BY AGNES SAMO. OIL CITY, Pa, Oil City holds the 'record for biggest babies in the country. If the boasts of Its citizens ! are to be believed. And in the plumb j little person of Miss Opal May Brown, who arrived Oct. 28, weighing 1 1 pounds, the town offers proof of its claims. Mrs. R. A. Brown. 63 Pierce avenue, Is the proud mother of little Opal May. Mrs. Prown 3'. vv.i.- th( moth r of six chlldmi when Opal first opi n her blue ejes. I "ABSOLUTELY PERFECT" Dr. J. S. Hodley, who helped b I pal May as well as her six sisters i ami brothers into t)i world, i i ij tt- a;i proud of her as the mother. I "The biggest baby girl I've ever j seen, and absolutely perfect." savs Dr. Hadley enthusiastically, even , though he has stood sponsor at the D Above: Opal May Brown. "11-pOUndcr "11-pOUndcr " lx-lovv Baby Thompson, " 1 7-poundcf." Lrrlval of more than 3000 little Americans. Ameri-cans. Mrs. Brown Just smiles a-id looks at her littlest one fondly. It doesn't seenj so extraordinary to mc that she weighs 14 pound.-." Mrs. Brown savs, because, you see, when my second baby came, a boy. h? also weighed H pounds." FAMILY RECORD. "But then he's a boy," Dr. Hadley explains. ' Boys always weigh on the average of a pound more. ' All of the little Browns were above the normal weight. though little two-year-old M&xine somehow broke the family record of 10 to 14 pounds bv only tipping tip-ping the scale at eight and a half pounds. The eldest girl, who is 16, and as robust and healthy as her mother, weighed 1 -' pounds at birth To further .substantiate the claim of OH Cit) aa the town of hlg babies, the inhabitants offei Baby Thompson, son of,. Mr and Mrs. John Thompson, who weighed 17 pounds when he arrived ar-rived on Jan 8 1920, and set the Whole country agog. |