The News, the Pike County, Ky. newspaper, showed marriage license applications on the front page. They provided the names, ages, communities of residence, and their races if non-white. It was common to see 15 and 16 year olds listed, but the publisher took special note in the January 13, 1925 edition about two such applications in neighboring Letcher County, where the brides-to-be were ages 12 and 13.
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