. The list of American superlatives is not yet em.ed. -.flbe “smallest baby in the world” is the latest. Despatches from Bridgeport, Connecticut, mention a baby whioh was just a month old last week, when it weighed exactly one pound. The Telegraph correspondent says the infant is the daughter of Mrs Marvin Peck. In every particular, even to the nails on its tiny fingers, it is perfectly developed. The mother’s wedding ring will slip over the baby’s hand up to the elbow, and over the foot and up to the knee. The heart action and lung power, according to the physician in attendance, are as strong as in a normal sized baby of the same age. and the doctor believes that the infant will live and grow up to be a handsome young w >man.
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Motueka Star, Volume II, Issue 88, 17 June 1902, Page 4
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