Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 282, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1918 — Midget Had Soldier Son. [ARTICLE]

Midget Had Soldier Son.

Admiral Det, P. T. Barnum’s midget celebrity, who died a short time ago, lived to give a stalwart son to the American army In France. Both his parents were of normal size. As. midgets go, Admiral Dot was of lesser eminence tiiap Gen. Tom Thumb, but after the latter’s death in 1883 he remained first among his kind until his retirement to become a hotelkeeper a 'qaarter of a century ago. Admiral Dot was American born and purely a native celebrity. He lived to be fifty-nine years old. while Gen. Tom Thumb died at forty-six, and the Polish dwarf Borulwaskl missed becoming a centenarian by two years.