FIVE BRIDES AS BAIT.
Five girls as wives were offered as bait for harvesters by Ambrose Huntington, who owns a farm near Giltner, Nebraska. Huntington had the following signboard posted on the highway in front of his house:—> "I need live harvest hands for more than a mouth. Wages, 12/- a day; chicken once a day; washing, mend- ; !ig, and a bed in the hay mow. Every worthy young man hired will have a chance to marry one of my five pretty daughters. If he wins one of them, he gets 160 acres of land thrown in. But he's got to make good ; ri more ways than one." Fifty-three candidates for employment and prospective matrimony applied within a week. The five chosea ones are now at work in the wheat fields. The girls range in age from eighteen to twenty-six.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 187, 12 September 1914, Page 6
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