The oldest Jewish woman in Warsaw, Mrs. Bayle Tittelman, died here at the age of 108. The mother of nine children, she lived long enough to know most of their great-grandchildren. She survived eight of her children, the ninth being Mrs. Chaye Halpern of New York. Mrs. Halpern is 87 years old. Mrs. Tittelman was born in Warsaw in 1825 and lived here almost all her life.
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