Pleasant Grove Review | 1941-02-28 | Page 7 | Baby 'Missing' at own Birth in Snowdrift

Baby 'Missing' at Own Birth in Snowdrift Jit L?4t4 t Mrs. Grace Armstrong, 35, in her hospital bed at Park Falls, Wis., where she was taken by Dr. H. A. Smith after the automobile in which he was taking her to the hospital for confinement skidded into a ditch. A passing motorist took both to the hospital, where it was discovered the baby had already been born. Hurrying back to his stalled auto, Dr. Smith found a farmer with the baby an eight-pound boy whom he had found in the snow wrapped in a blanket. Birth took place while the half-conscious mother was being transferred into the second automobile. Hospital attendants nick-named the baby "Snowball."