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The quadruplets are thriving and bid fair to become as robust as their three b others and sisters who are still living of the number born to their mother beforetheir arrival.The world looks dark to Mrs. Orm* by when she counts h«r seven little mouthsthat her efforts must AIL Her husband deserted her *even months ago, after becoming insane in his offurts to perfect aperpetual motion machine. I otil her rapidly Increasing family hod handicapped her effort# Mre. Ormsby help* i support the family by conducting a tittle grocery shop In the front of the homo atNo. «ot* West Forty-third street-In the first three years of her married life the young plumber, Joseph Ormsby, who is two years her junior, she presented to him apnun Hy a blue-eyed, fl,%,-v-haired* image of himself, Then followed twins in November of ISPS,In something leas than a year another set of twins swelled the. list, and triplets arrived two years from the date of the birth of the fast twins. These three won a golden cup oyer the other triplets at a Fhlcajro baby show.I l.UKTH 1Ol IB XA M KB If-len Oould, thirl-r Harrison, andOwtfe Dewey were the Illustrious narro-ooonferred upon the wee things. Farter Harrison died in Infancy, hut Helen and George are now lusty young babies. Asidefrom George and H(bn at4 the ne*west arrival# only one of Mrs Orrrsbv's ohtl-idrt n survives—Daisy, one of the first setof twit.#,About three year# aim Ormab* began to wcrry hla brain with ?h • problem ofperpetual motion. lie perfected a machine he believed would revolution!:*© mechanics. and in the jlt;*y of »uccea», threwup work to arlvo bts undivided attention to his invention.It la said the maehln- ran sixty two hours without stopping, but it did finally stop, and Jo -oh Drmiby went mad. If*desert ad home after smashing tb©furniture. When he departed the interiorof the house wag wrecked.nK5- .0RntpyMAN OF 30 HAS HAD AVERAGE OF TWO CH!I DREN A YEAR FOR SEVEN YEARS.i - e't. HI*, January J. —ITarae*iO”# or tr-ptrt#, Mr*. J.se-ph K, Oirlfcyha# th# dN inrtlon of tmfn/f the mother of the most remarkable family in this country. If not In the world Insides her four;* en-4ay#*old quadru-»leta, Mre. orm by ha# had a set, of triplets, two pair* of twin* and four other cmidrer*. «p all fourteen during her seven yems of .TMwrriajra, an average of two a year. fthlt;- is n«lt;w only thirty ntm old, a physician# hen- assert tnat there is•o other case on record that equal* her#4MMN -•m * w—a r* i iiaissa*1 ** —I i *a;
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Daily Times
Dubuque, Iowa, US
Sun, Jan 05, 1902
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