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...fortune burst on the tenement home of Abraham Starr, 58, impecunious Polish-Jewish ironworker, his wife Leah, his seven grown children and brood of grandchildren. The facts were that a Montreal lawyer had seen in the hands of a stranger a Polish newspaper listing the will of one Harry Koslack or Kozack who had bequeathed at least $1,000,000, maybe $6,000,000, to his sister who had married a man named Stareselsky. There were Starrs in Montreal who had changed their name from Stareselsky, brothers and sisters of Abraham Starr in Manhattan. Their mother's name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Ottilie | 7/29/1935 | See Source »

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