THE TRADE IN HEIRESSES.
AMERICA WANTS A TAX LEVIED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Oopyrisfcl Washington, July 13. In tho Houso of Representatives, Mr. J. H. Ivahn, of California, proposed that a heavy tax should be imposed on tho dowers of American brides in cases of international marriages, so that penurious but titled fortune-hunters might secure but a small moiety of the price tho bride pays him for tho name he himself dishonours by putting it up to auction, to tho highest bidder.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1180, 15 July 1911, Page 5
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80THE TRADE IN HEIRESSES. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1180, 15 July 1911, Page 5
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