Word: oliva
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the newshawks, photographers, gawkers and sharpers who hurried to the sleepy village of Callander, Ont. at the end of May 1554 was a Chicago promoter named Ivan I. Spear. Three days after the Dionne Quintuplets were born, Papa Oliva Dionne signed a contract with Promoter Spear to exhibit himself, his wife and ten children* at Chicago's World's Fair under the auspices of the Century of Progress Tour Bureau. Net revenues, including photographic rights, were to be divided: Tour Bureau 70%, Papa Dionne 23%, Rev. Daniel Routhier (Papa Dionne's manager) 7%. For signing...
Ontario's Minister of Public Welfare David A. Croll, one of the Dionne Quintuplets' three official guardians, announced that their father, Oliva Dionne, had asked the Provincial Government for permission to open a hot dog & soda water booth opposite his daughters' nursery in Callander, Ont. (TIME, July 20 et ante). Said Minister Croll: "He is going to operate a stand and we are going to see to it that he has the necessary electric energy for refrigeration...
...very soon now the baby will be here. And before long we can both go out in the back yard and hide behind that 8-ft. fence Oliva has had built in order that we may all have at least a little backyard privacy...
...clock one morning last week the world's most amazing mother, Mrs. Oliva Dionne, was safely and uneventfully delivered of her twelfth child, her fourth son. On the previous afternoon she received a journalist with reluctance saying: "Having a child is such a personal, such a sacred thing. That's why I can hardly bear to talk for publication about the event before it happens. That's why I have been a shut-in for so long. You have been here five weeks, and you have seen for yourself how tourist cars lined the driveway between...
...Born. To Oliva and Elzire Dionne; a son; in Callander, Ont. Name: Joseph Robert Telesphore...