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Birth Year Rhyme Advised By Public Health Service
A magazine feature notes the US Public Health Service urges people to remember birth years with rhymes or songs due to common forgetfulness when applying for marriage licenses or other official actions. Prominent figures including Judge Ben Lindsey and Harvard leaders contributed verses to aid memory, with examples like “In 1897 little Jeanme came from heaven.”
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United States Public Health Service
Ben Lindsey
Anthony Comstock
Louis W. Hill
Sherman M. Booth
Lawrence Low
Pri
Europe
Jean
Heaven