AMERICAN MARRIAGE MARKET
PROPOSAL TO TAX DOWRIES. (By Telegraph.—Pres* Association.—Copyright.) NEW YORK, July 13. In the House of Representatives Mr J. H. Kahn, of California, proposed that a heavy tax be imposed on the dowries of American brides, in cases of international marriages, so that penurious but titled fortune-hunters might secure but a small moiety of the price the Wide pays nim for the name he himself dhhonours by putting himself up to auction to the highest bidder.
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Southland Times, Issue 16786, 15 July 1911, Page 6
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78AMERICAN MARRIAGE MARKET Southland Times, Issue 16786, 15 July 1911, Page 6
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