Duke, Nov. 5—In the person of Carl Frederick Horne, 6-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Horne, Duke thinks it has the champion baby of the entire state. The claim is being based on the fact that young Horne can walk with the aid of chairs, crawled at the age of three months, and can perform numerous other things that one baby out of thousands cannot do.
Little Carl was six months old last week, though for the past three weeks he had been pulling up to chairs and walking around them as often as he pleased. He can crawl whenever he wants to and, according to his mother, Frederick crawls nearly all the time. Along with Carl’s many other infantile accomplishments is that he can say “dada” and tries to say other things but finds it impossible.
Local doctors stated that babies walking even with the aid of chairs at the age of five months were unheard of n the annals of medical records. Dr. P.G. Parker delved into the records and found instances where babies walked at eight months, but that the was the lowest he could find. Dr. Sotherton, too, was unable to recall any case in his practice or heard of like one to offset the remarkable Horne baby.
Both physicians and the superintendent of the local hospital, all three of them having much practice among babies, said the case had no parallel to their knowledge. The three were inclined to place the Horne child on a pedestal by itself. The average age at which an infant begins to walk is placed by 10 to 14 months.
According to the prodigy’s mother, Carl has never been sick to any extent; hardly ever cries; is inclined to laugh much of the time, and persists in trying to emulate his older brothers in things they do. Carl’s father walked at the age of eight months.
From page 3 of The Carolina Independent, part of the Carolina Jeffersonian, Raleigh, N.C., Nov. 7, 1925
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