Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1875 — The Romance of a Pretty Type-Setter. [ARTICLE]

The Romance of a Pretty Type-Setter.

A recent number of a Portland (Oregon) paper tells a pleasant little story, to the following effect: A young lady well known in that city has just started to join her parents, whom she has no recollection of ever having seen. Her name is Emma Frankie, and her parents live in Florence, Italy. At the age of between three and four years she was given to a family named Stokes, who promised to educate and otherwise provide for her. It seems that she was trained for circus performances, and traveled with circus troupes until she was eighteen years old, when she abandoned the business, made her home in Portland, and, having learned to set type, supported herself by that work during the past four years, taking good care of herself and winning many friends. Meanwhile she .had caused inquiries for her parents to be made in Florence, these only recently proving successful, the parents having also been for some years advertising for their lost daughter. Money was sent to the daughter, from Florence, with which to defray her expenses home, and by this time she has probably been reunited to those who long ago parted from her, hoping it would prove to her advantage.