Word: bagnato
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dark horse of the competition is Mrs. Grace Bagnato, 43, sturdy Toronto-born Italian court interpreter, who habitually keeps working up to the hour of her confinement. Mother of 23 (14 living), she has already been able to produce nine to qualify for the Millar money. Last week she was due to produce again before time is called, hoped for twins...
...Toronto: a son, her 14th child, her 8th since 1926, when Charles Millar died bequeathing some $500,000 to that Toronto woman who should bear the most children in the ensuing decade. Still in the lead in this babe-stakes are Mrs. Frances Lillian Kenny (eleven), Mrs. Grace Bagnato (nine) (TIME...
...Bagnato and her husband, Joseph, are industrious Italians. She adds to the family income by acting as interpreter in Toronto courts. Only when labor is full upon her does she leave her work. In their 28 years of marriage the Bagnatos have had 23 children, of whom 13 are alive...
Mothers Kenny and Bagnato, with 22 months of competition ahead of them, last week both vowed they would have more babies in an effort...
Said Mrs. Bagnato: "I'm strong and in the best of health. I've been disappointed in many things during my life. But this time I think Mrs. Kenny will be disap pointed. I'll get the $500,000."Mrs. Kenny: "I am determined to beat that Bagnato woman, if nothing else. She's ten years older than me, and I'll go right on having children every year. I'll probably have twins before 1936. But anyway I'll beat that Bagnato woman...