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Medicine has controlled their every moment ever since Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe delivered them. Their birthday party this week will be a strictly hygienic affair. They will wear special party dresses with embroidery and ribbons, but their parents Oliva & Elzire Dionne, their five older brothers and sisters who are to eat most of the birthday cake, will be obliged to wear white cotton hospital gowns over their everyday clothes. If any one of them has a cold or even looks ill, he will lose his invitation to the party...
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...
...Their eleventh (Oliva) was born July...
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...
...Born. To Oliva and Elzire Dionne; a son; in Callander, Ont. Name: Joseph Robert Telesphore...