Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1917 — A girl who has been growing for [ARTICLE]

A girl who has been growing for

the last three years at a phenomenal rate and is now more than six feet tall, although she is only twelve years old, is Interesting the physicians of Johns Hopkins hospital, who expect to see her become a giantess, without loss of normal mental powers. For the last three years the girl’s growth has been phenomenal, surpassing all records at the hospital and cases known to the scientists there who are studying giantism. Until she was nine years old she was simply a large girl. She now weighs 117% pounds and is above the average in intellect. Dr. William Thayer and Dr. Lew el lye Barker, professors of clinical medicine, have made a study of the case. The girl’s mother Is stout and her father Is larger than most men, but is not a giant.