Education: Orphan's Return

Eleven years ago an orphan named Peter Christopolus was taken into Rev. Edward J. Flanagan's Boys' Home in Omaha, Neb., famed model institution. A good worker, 14-year-old Peter Christopolus was rewarded for his "model behavior" this summer by getting his picture printed in the Boys' Home magazine, in overalls like the other orphans. The picture came to the attention of one Jean Strengs, French-born proprietor of a Paterson, N. J. dye works. Dyer Strengs was struck by Peter Christopolus' resemblance to his own son, who had been drowned at 17 a year...

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