Seven Children Born to Wife; Mexican Paints Town Red

1920

MONTEZUMA, Mexico -- Septuplets were born to the wife of Jesus Lopez, a private in the Mexican army.

The arrivals are three girls and four boys, weighing about two pounds apiece and each perfectly developed in every respect. It is believed here that this blow at race suicide is unprecedented in any country.

After he became a sevenfold papa, Jesus was given the privilege by the military commander to "paint the town red and go as far as he liked." He is doing so at the present time with a vengeance. Before starting on his mescal celebration he announced that he would get a release from the army and place his family in the side show of some American circus.

The mother and children were reported as doing splendidly.

Septuplets Case in Italy

Septuplets are possible! A staff doctor of the Chicago Lying-in Hospital declared that there is on record such a case in Italy. At the Chicago Maternity Hospital it was declared that authentic records of five and six children both simultaneously were available, and it was considered that birth of septuplets is possible. Dr. David Hillis of the Monroe Building, an authority, declared that such a birth is possible, but that it occurs very rarely and that it is seldom that more than three babies are normal or live.

--The Saturday Blade, Chicago, March 27, 1920, page 1.

Comment: The article used the word septlets.