Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 243, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1917 — Practical Birth Encouragement. [ARTICLE]

Practical Birth Encouragement.

A rich Russian distiller sometime ago decided to spend a considerable amount of his fortune in Increasing the physique of his countrymen and countrywomen. He advertised for strong, healthy young couples to settle.on his estate. He paid the marriage expenses for suitable applicants and gave them free grants of land. Then, when babies began to arrive, he settled annuities on them of fifty rubles each.