Just to see if it were possible that all births for the year were published in newspapers, I divided 16,000 by 365 days and got a number between 43 and 44.
How does that compare to a day’s published announcements in any of the examples you’ve seen? Do any of them have a list that is that long or longer?
Better to ask butterdezillion, I am under the impression that birth announcements in 1961 were NOT published DAILY.
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