The Archive · 1938

U.S. ORPHAN BOY

REARED IN CHINA

rly Life Spent in Canton Up River Village Seattle, Jan. 17.

Joseph Rinehart, 19-year old orphaned American boy who arrived here to-day en route to New York to visit his foster father, Mr. Lee Kwong, satisfied the curiosity of Americans who discovered he could speak no English by explaining that he had been raised in a small Chinese village.

Since in infancy he had lived Namhoi, up-river from Canton, he explained. Then he added:

"I am just a boy from a little village. I have no story and will give no more interviews. And I will have no more pictures taken with those boxes that flash."—United Press.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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