Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1916 — Pays $1,100 for Bride. [ARTICLE]

Pays $1,100 for Bride.

Sacramento, Cal. —Rose Joe, the seventeen-year-old daughter of Chin Joe, Chinese restaurant keeper of Marysville, Cal., and a graduate of the Marysville grammar school, was sold by her father to Lee Dow, a wealthy San Francisco merchant, for $l,lOO and became the bride of the man she had never seen before. The bride-groom-is twenty-five years older than Rose Joe, who is pretty and a talented pianist.