Volume 16 , Issue 16

100 Years Ago - Tuesday 12 May 1914

It was in the Anadarko, Oklahoma newspaper The Daily Democrat, dated Tuesday, 12 May 1914, we found this front page article entitled Locates Son After years. It is about a mother's yearning for her son she had not seen for fourteen years.

It starts with, "A mother's yearning for a son she had not seen for fourteen years resulted in the location of the boy by Police Chief Hammmil."

The mother was Mrs. Samuel Rothstein of Chicago. Her son was Samuel Sher, 18 years old in 1914. He lived at 620 Olive Street and worked for a grain company. His father was Harry Sher, a shoemaker at Fifth and Main Streets.

The boy said he had wanted to hear from his mother for a long time, and he did not have money to go to her. But he would write her.

His father and mother were divorced years ago, with his father taking one son and the mother another, and the mother remarrying over the years.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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