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Knouting Fathers of Girl Babies

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Sep 24, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 39.

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Knouting Fathers of Girl Babies

A REPORT from St. Petersburg, Russia, states that the commander of a Cossack station at Wertschink, anxious that his district should show a preponderance of males, has ordered that the father of every girl baby born in the district shall be given fifty strokes with the knout. Several men, the report states, have already been knouted.