Philadelphia Inquirer clipping (undated, Aug. 16 AP dateline) – “3 Weeks Old, Baby Walks”: infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. La Verl Benson, Murray, Utah

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Transcription of: Undated_Newspaper_Clipping_3_Weeks_Old_Baby_Walks.pdf

Document: Three scans of a newspaper clipping from The Philadelphia Inquirer (a Wednesday issue; full date cut off) consisting of an AP Wirephoto with caption and a short Associated Press article datelined Murray, Utah, Aug. 16. Pages 1 and 2 appear to be the same scan; page 3 is a second scan showing a few more lines at the bottom of the article.

Conventions: original spelling kept; [?] = uncertain reading; [illegible] = unreadable; bracketed italic text describes images or marks the transcriber's notes.

Transcription

Page 1

[Photograph: a dark-haired woman in a short-sleeved patterned blouse, standing and holding up an infant by the arm so that the baby stands on a flat surface.]

(AP Wirephoto)

SHE'S ONLY THREE WEEKS OLD AND ALREADY STEPS OUT

Mrs. La Verl Benson steadying her three-week-old daughter, who's already walking, in their Murray, Utah, home. The family physician said yesterady he saw the baby lift her knees and take four or five steps. The child, as yet, has not been named.

[Kicker:] Infantry

3 Weeks Old, Baby Walks

MURRAY, Utah, Aug. 16 (AP). THE three-week-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. La Verl Benson hasn't a name yet, but she is already walking.

Mrs. Benson's doctor, who didn't believe it at first, either, confirmed it. He has cautioned her not to let the energetic infant walk too much.

The girl was born in a Salt Lake City Hospital July 22. She first surprised her mother about a week ago.

“I was giving her a bath and had turned her over on her stomach to wash her back,” Mrs. Benson reported today. “Resting against my left hand she raised herself on her feet and proceeded to take several steps in the bathinet.”

The doctor, who asked that his name not be used, told a reporter he had seen the baby “lift its knees and take four or five steps” while Mrs. Ben[son …] [text cut off at bottom of clipping]

Fragments of unrelated adjacent columns are visible at the left and right edges (right edge: a headline beginning “W… / Le…” and a story mentioning a lease, the Navy, a “Service”, and a section subhead “INAC[…]” and “TO […]”); not transcribed.

Page 2

Transcriber note: This page is visually identical to page 1 (same crop and content: masthead strip, AP Wirephoto and caption, and the article through “…while Mrs. Ben[son]”). See page 1 for the transcription.

Page 3

Transcriber note: Second scan of the same clipping, positioned lower on the page; the masthead strip is not visible. The photo, caption, kicker, headline and article text are identical to page 1, and this scan shows the following additional lines at the bottom of the article.

The doctor, who asked that his name not be used, told a reporter he had seen the baby “lift its knees and take four or five steps” while Mrs. Benson partially supported it. He said he considered this very un- [text cut off at bottom of scan]

Transcriber's Notes

The newspaper date is not visible; only “THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, WEDN[ESDAY]” survives at the top edge. The article dateline is “Aug. 16” with no year.

“yesterady” in the photo caption is a typographical error in the original, transcribed as printed.

The kicker “Infantry” above the headline is printed (italic, underlined), not handwritten.

The end of the article is cut off in all scans after “He said he considered this very un-”.

No family surname of interest appears in the clipping; the only names are Mr. and Mrs. La Verl Benson.