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Divorce figures reveal steady rise in U S over forty years
Washington dispatch reports a Census Bureau study of marriages and divorces from 1887 to 1906. It records 12,832,044 marriages and 945,625 divorces, with rates rising as population grows, and notes wives obtain twice as many divorces as husbands with desertion as the leading cause.
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