WHAT WIVES COST
TWO FOll NINEPENCE EACH! LONDON. Dec. 0. \ man who accused his former friend of assault at Hull yesterday, said they both l obtained a wife for ninenenco each'. “We advertised for a wife,” lie said. “It cost us Is (id. We got replies from two women who lived in the same house and. married them. One was a widowed mother, and the other her daughter. I was lucky and got the daughter. He married the mother and ho doesn’t like it because I got the; better and younger wife.” - - Ihe accused man was hound over.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11124, 6 February 1930, Page 5
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