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Correct is Reader O'Keeffe. Of Patriarch Young's 27 wives, he married 19 in five years. On more than one occasion he married two on the same day and on Jan. 21, 1846, wed four, one pair before lunch, one pair after. Mormon Young's original favorite wife, Emmeline Free Young, bore him ten children. In the Young menage, three children were once born the same month, two the same...
...March 25, 1935). Long queues of buyers at once formed but Soviet police, as usual, shortened them by the old device of arresting as "speculators" persons who bought more than one or two articles. Sentenced to five years in jail was a Moscow housewife who had bought only one pair of shoes for 80 rubles ($16) but was caught red-handed selling them for 100 rubles to a friend who had not cared to stand in line all night...
...Cuba, goes to Africa to make a fortune in the slave trade, returns to Leghorn to find his Angela gone, his grandfather dead and the family housekeeper misbehaving with a grandee who Anthony does not know was his mother's husband. Having escaped the efforts of this malevolent pair to force his coach off the road into an Alpine pass, Anthony finds Angela getting along nicely in Paris as mistress to Napoleon. Then, accompanied by his small son, he sets off for the U. S. hoping to find the more abundant life...
...whiskey, dozens of photographs, a gold safety pin which once secured the diapers of Baby Doe's daughter Rose Mary Echo Silver Dollar Tabor. A silver dollar made into a locket containing Silver Dollar Tabor's picture drew the highest bid: $26. Finally, the auctioneer hoisted a pair of long red flannels which Baby Doe wore for years before she died. "Here is your opportunity, girls! Winter is coming!" he bawled. A Denver housewife bought them...
...with incidental records of Indian rebellions, church intrigue, disputes with provincial authorities. Not a book to be read hastily, it is nevertheless of cumulative interest to readers who enjoy an abundance of facts on which their imaginations can dwell. And industrious Father Kino and Professor Bolton make a pair of travelers whose exploits are likely to remain in the memory long after the book is finished...