Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 244, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1910 — Prince Won’t Marry Sister. [ARTICLE]

Prince Won’t Marry Sister.

San Francisco. —The crown prince of Siam is adding gray hairs to the head of his royal father, King Chulalongkorn, and has set the country by the ears in refusing to marry his sister. According to Rev. Will C. Dodd, a Presbyterian missionary, all Siam is agog over the prince’s announcement. From time immemorial, the missionary says, it has been the Siamese custom for the crown prince to wed his sister, or if he has none, then a half sister, the daughter of one of his father’s numerous wives. The crown prince, though, has asserted his independence by publicly declaring he intends to have but one wife, and that one of his own choosing.