LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM

SHERMAN, STORIE, SQUIRTIS, BOWEN, GITTINGER

Posted By: David (email)
Date: 1/12/2005 at 10:56:21

The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa
Thursday, September 5, 1907

Justice E.H. Storie, who joined in wedlock, some time since, SAMUEL SQUIRTIS
SHERMAN, the cat with nine wives, more or less, to CINDERELLA BOWEN, in this
city, received the following essay on domestic felicity and artificial limbs
which is of sufficient local interest to our readers to publish:

"Dear Sir: Why in the world don't you send that marriage certificate? I
paid a dollar for that blank and I want it, filled out. You marked the date
the 10th on the little one you gave me, when it should have been 9th. I am
proud of my little wife and living very happy with her notwithstanding Hen.
Gittinger's dirty, insulting and libelous slurs. If you see him please tell
him for me that Len Riebel did not make my new leg and if he wants to really
know whether it is paid for or not he can find out by addressing the
Northern Artificial Limb Co., of Des Moines. And as to the one Len did try
to make for me I paid him $65 in cash and printing, and he warranted it for
five years. In three years I had to have a new foot made for it in Des
Moines and at the end of four years I was forced to throw it away and get a
new one. If Gittinger had any manhood whatever about him he would be
willing to give a woman a chance when he sees she is willing to do what's
right when she has a chance, and the less he listens to Len Riebel's whines
the more trouble it will save him. I don't know what Git can have against
me, for I never trod on his toes any before he jumped on me.

-- Very Truly,

S.S. SHERMAN,

Thornton, Iowa.

Late of Des Moines."

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'The Husband of Cinderella'

-- Thornton Enterprise --

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In a leading editorial in Tuesday evening's Mason City Times-Herald Bro.
English delivers a scathing arraignment of all those families which neglect
to raise children of their own.

For goodness sake give us time -- we've only been married two months.
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The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa
Thursday, October 3, 1907

DIED AT COUNTY FARM:

JACOB BOWEN, an inmate of the county house, died on Saturday night. He
sustained a stroke of paralysis, last March, the direct cause of his death.
His age as recorded was 58 years. He has several children but their
whereabouts are unknown and his divorced wife recently married SAM SHERMAN,
the freak, of Thornton, Iowa.
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