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Show i Ho Purchased a Wife. . Chung Sing is a Chinese doctor residing at Kansas City. After sixty years of life and forty of professional labor he oamo to the conclusion that it was about time to get married. So he checked out $300 from bank and sent it to San Francisco for the purchase of a wife. She arrived at Kansas City the other day under the guardianship 77. , CHCTNO SING AND AH GIN. of sn elderly woman whose duty it was to see that she safely'reached bsr lord and master. Her name is Ah Gin. bhe is t7 years old and rather good looking. The police investigated the affair, but finding that Chung Sing really intended to get married "Mclican fashion" withdrew, and the ceremony that made the old doctor and the young girl man and wife was duly performed by a josUcit of the peace. |