Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 249, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1917 — Baby Born on a Shetland Island. [ARTICLE]

Baby Born on a Shetland Island.

Some years ago a bonus was paid to a baby In extraordinary circumstances. The new arrival w’as born at Balta, one of the outlying Islands of the Shetland group, and it seems that it was the first baby to be born on the island for, two centuries. The proprietor of the island forthwith sent $125 to Its mother, a w’orking woman, who was employed on the island in connection with a fish curing station.