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...Brown, in Y. M. C. A. work. Her second husband. Industrial Engineer Horace Clark, died in 1929. Mr. Young's four children, Mrs. Young's three beamed from front pews during the ceremony, at the conclusion of which the grave bride was not kissed by the graver groom...
...wedding in 1924 was not quite so quiet as the bride & groom had planned. The best man, famed Watercolorist John Marin, met the couple at the Weehawken ferry with the Chandler touring car his son, John Jr. still drives, smashed a lamp post and a grocery wagon and fought with a policeman before his friends were delivered to a justice of the peace at Cliffside...
...cabin where he had taken his elfin, impubic bride "so's I can raise her up right," gangling Groom Johns declined $500 for newsreel poses, oiled his shotgun, muttered about "furriners" coming into the mountains, exploded: "They're a-sayin' they're goin' to take Eunice away from me. They're a-sayin' the law-makin' men in Nashville is makin' a law sayin' my marriage ain't legal. They've scared Eunice to death talkin' about sendin' her to reform school. I'm that...
...Carthage by a Methodist named Rev. William K. Bradshaw who, like every one else concerned, was deceived by the bride's appearance. She weighs 112 lb., looks mature in grown-up frocks. Last week a medical examination showed her to be pregnant, and according to the County Prosecutor, Groom Backus confessed to having seduced her. He was arrested for second-degree rape. Said Mrs. Backus, posing for photographs in apparent enjoyment of home life on her husband's $25-a-week salary: "People ought to mind their own business." Three days later Leona's father was jailed...
...Legislature last week considered the creation of a new State officer whose principal duty would be to try to eradicate venereal disease. Only 16 other States have such full-time administrators. The Legislatures of New York and New Jersey last week entertained resolutions to require medical certificates from bride & groom before permitting marriage. Connecticut put such a law in force a year...