Polygamist Defends Plural Marriage as God's Plan Near Salt Lake
Jim and five wives with 26 children live as a faith community near Salt Lake City. He argues plural marriage is divinely commanded, while noting church policy and a 25 year family effort to keep the arrangement. Incomes are pooled from his job and three wives, with homes on multiple plots and weekly family meetings and Sunday services. Some children accept the practice, others do not.
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Jim
Salt Lake City
Tegal Co
Abraham
Jacob
Solomon
David
Church
United States
Congress
Ee Sok
Swiss Bell Ringers To Play Here At 5 P M
The Mason Swiss Bell Ringers present a sacred concert at Wesley Memorial Methodist Church this evening at 5 p m. A donation will be received. The group, 50 hand bells, comes from the Peake family Boston and is billed as the original all American Swiss Bell Ringers. Reverend Benard Mason and his wife from Los Angeles are veteran artists with over 4,000 concerts in 24 years.
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America
Wesley Memorial Methodist Church
Peake
Boston
Mra. Benard Mason
Los Angeles
California
Flight Recording Devices Proposed for Airlines
Washington aviation leaders propose installing flight recorders on all aircraft. The recorder would log time, vertical acceleration, air pressure and altitude, offering data for investigators. The CAB asks airlines to comment by January 16.
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Washington
Poeronautics
CAB
Water danger reminder closes El Paso irrigation ditches
In El Paso Texas city officials warn the public against wading swimming or diving in irrigation ditches. The notice labels such conduct as dangerous and inappropriate within city waters.
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EL Paso
Tex
Southwest
Priest predicts female leadership by 2000 vote
Mrs Ivy Baker Priest treasurer of the United States says there will be a lady vice president and three women on the Supreme Court by 2000. She predicts half of Congress will be female by the turn of the century in a speech to the American Laundrymen convention in Philadelphia.
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Philadelphia
Supreme Court
Ivy Baker Priest
United States
Congress
Priest
American — of Laundering
Bride price and rice consumption across tribes and regions
A passage notes vast differences in bride price during lifetime and in annual rice consumption, citing Anat and Seperionsi tribes eating less than six pounds per year while the average Louisianan consumes about 100 pounds.
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