The smoking-gun newspaper article from the 1925 runaway story. On October 11, 1925, the New York Daily News reported:
“In addition to every policeman in the city being asked by a general alarm in hunt for two missing boys, more than 1,000 students of DeWitt Clinton high school will make an effort to locate John Jeannopoulos, 15, and his brother, Peter, missing from their home at 130 West 26th St.”
A thousand high-school students and the entire NYPD looking for two boys who had already lied themselves onto a ship to Greece. The article lands inside the family’s known runaway window — both brothers were thirteen at the start; Takis turned 14 in November and returned on the SS Byron later in 1925. The newspaper’s name “Peter” is almost certainly Takis (born Panagiotis — a name English-speaking reporters of the era routinely anglicized to “Peter”). The age given for John (15) is one or two years off from his corrected birthdate (Mar 17, 1911 — he’d have been 14 in October 1925), consistent with the family pattern of slightly-shifted recorded ages.
The article also pins the family’s October 1925 address: 130 West 26th Street, Manhattan. The mention of DeWitt Clinton High School answers Aline’s longstanding question about which NYC public school the boys had been attending.
