Carthage, Aug. 27—Leslie Carter and wife of West End, Route 1, are the proud parents of a daughter that is only 15 months old and yet weighs 65 pounds. The baby, apparently normal in every way aside from its obesity, is their only child. At birth, according to its parents, it was about the size of any ordinary child, but developed rapidly and at the age of 15 mounts it is still adding weight at the rate of around six or eight pounds a month.
Leslie, the child’s father, is employed in the sand pit near his home, operated by S. W. Wilson and Son. He has been recipient of many offers from showmen who wanted to add his child to their collection. One prominent circus offered him $400 a month to travel with the show and take his “little daughter” along. From another he received an offer of $10 a day, with all expenses paid. But so far he has been undecided whether to accept any of these offers, stating that he fears the child might not live if he uses it for monetary gains.
Both the parents of Virginia Dare, which was the name given the infant, are people of average build and size, the mother, in fact, being of rather small structure.
From the front page of the Smithfield Herald, Aug. 31, 1926
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