Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1895 — The Baby Giant. [ARTICLE]

The Baby Giant.

Eddie Thompson is a four-year-old wonder, living at Clarksville, Ind. So is his sixteen-months-old brother Clyde. Both are the children of Mrs. Jennie Thompson, a spare built woman, about five foet seven inches and weighing 120 pounds. She obtained a divorce a short time ago from her husband William, who is a six-foot-er, weighing not more than 150 pounds. Eddie is a little more than four years of age and weighs 124 pounds. He measures three feet six inches in height, and moasures forty inches around the waist. It takes a shoe about the length of a No, 8 to fit him, and he wears a man's hat—a Oi in size. He tipped the scales at nine pounds at his birth. Three months later he began to develop at a most wonderful rate, until when he was Sivears of age. With it all heis as lively as a cricket and a very pretty child, with strength far beyond his years. His brother, Clyde, gives promise of outstripping him in his giant class. Though but sixteen months old he weighs forty-six pounds and is a most wondrously developed infant.