This Week in Odessa History

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From The Odessa Record

December 3, 1915

The state Board of Health wrote to a mother in this state, calling her attention to the fact that the birth of her baby had not been reported. She replied, “I have had seven babies and this is the first time I have had to go through with all this foolishness.”

Failure to register births often caused problems later in life. A Miss Brunner, born in Bellingham, went abroad to study in 1914. She was in Switzerland visiting her grandparents when the war broke out. She has been threatened with arrest as a spy unless her American birth can be prov...