It happened in the town of Mlawa on the first day of December in the year nineteen hundred and five at ten o’clock in the morning.  Szaja [Yitzhak Yehoshuah son of Tzvi Aryeh Ha-Levy] Tachna, age forty eight, shoemaker, residing in the town of Mlawa, appeared in the presence of the witnesses Zoruch Mlawski, age fifty three, and Josek Asz, age forty three, both of whom synagogue sextons residing in the town of Mlawa, and showed us a child of the male gender, declaring that it was born in the town of Mlawa on the twenty fifth of November of the current year at ten o’clock in the morning to his wedded wife Raca [Ruchle daughter of Avram Yitzhak] née Wilczek, age thirty nine. The child was given the name Aria [Tzvi Aryeh son of Yitzhak Yehoshuah Ha-Levy].  This document was read to the testifier and the witnesses, signed by us and them, the father of the child cannot write.