Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 280, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1917 — PARENTS SHOULD HAVE TWO NAMES FOR BABIES [ARTICLE]

PARENTS SHOULD HAVE TWO NAMES FOR BABIES

Indianapolis, Ind., — Because j parents haven’t always got a < name for their baby when it is , born, /the state of Indiana is < spending $l5O a month more ' than necessary, according to Dr. ' J. N. Hurty of the state board , of health. “The state is spending about j $l5O a month in writing to.. 1 homes, from which physicians j have sent in reports of births j without the names of the babies , attached. , “Parents ought to have two , names ready, one far a boy and one for a girl. Sometimes both < cqn be '