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Triplets Find Home Aboard River Houseboat After flood
The Hardie family lives with three newborn triplets Jodie Julia and Judy in a four room houseboat anchored two miles up the flood swollen Oau chita River The babies weigh six seven and eight pounds Each infant has gained weight and the family relies on canned milk baby food and $400 in cash The father a commercial fisherman suffers chronic illnesses from damp river life while the mother tends the children and hopes the river will fall so he can fish again The piece notes Samuel Morse first demonstrated the telegraph in 1838 and the 1843 line between Washington and Baltimore.
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N. G. Nasif
Oauchita River
Lester Hardie
Hardie
Nasif
Jodie
Julia
Papa Hardie