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Papa Arthur Seifert and his wife, 37, welcome quadruplets in Sleepy Eye Minnesota. He offers 10 dollars per name for the newborns as the town mob helps with housework and chores to ease family strain while ama is away. Gerald 10 Theresa 3 Viola twins Lowell Lewis 14 Marvin 17 are named among the children.
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Arthur Seifert
Gerald
Theresa
Viola
Lowell
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Marvin
Sleepy Eye
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