Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 154, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1916 — ALL TANGLED UP IN "13'S" [ARTICLE]

ALL TANGLED UP IN "13'S"

Little lowa Girl Finds Herself in President’s Class and Writes Him About It. Des Moines, la.—The number 1* is the mystic link that has drawn little Nettie Maxine Renner of this city into the ken of President Woodrow Wilson, and the fatalistic number has brought the “13” baby a letter from the president, which the president signed himself with his 13-letter name. The little “Thirteen Girl” was bom January 13, 1913; her home is on Thirteenth street. A savings bank account was started with sl3, and her bank book is numbered 13,493. . Sixteen were invited to her first birthday party and only thirteen came. On January 13, 1916, she wrote to President Wilson, with her mother’s aid, and told him about her entanglement in 13’s. Because the number figures pretty big in the president’s affairs, he wrote a personal letter to the little “Thirteen Girt.”