Magnetic healer seeks divorce in disputed marriage
In a divorce case, Monita Robinson accuses George R. Robinson of cruelty and infidelity while he says they agreed to live separately and he left her due to her magnetic healing work. Witnesses include a detective team and Susan Perkins, who testified about visits to the Perkins residence and rent payments. Robinson denies abuse. The testimony includes claims of a summer separation to Nantucket and involvement with Perkins, with cross witnesses casting doubt on each side.
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George R. Robinson
Monita
Susan Perkins
Columbus Avenue
Nantucket
Burroughs Place
Canton Street
Susan B. Perkins
Robinson
Spencer
Monita Robinson
Susan FE. Perkins
Insurance Trustees Probe Seen In New York
In New York on October 25 the Mutual Life board appointed a committee to investigate the company and its methods. Equitable Life reports nine months revenues exceed expenditures by 16.7 million, with third quarter receipts under last year by over 1 million. Legislative committee adjourns to November 8 after examining Emory McClintock and reviewing extensive figures.
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New York
Richard A. McCurdy
The
Mutual Life Insurance Company
Morton
Equitable Life
Emory McClintock
Legislative Committee
McClintock
Aged Broker Is Sentenced For Bond Theft
Colonel Harry W. Comstock, 78, crippled by rheumatism, was sentenced in the Superior Criminal Court to two years in the House of Correction for the larceny of 2000 in bonds from Mrs. Cora Frothingham of Brookline last summer. His counsel said he is insolvent and has signed all his property away. restitution is unlikely unless his son in Colorado can help. Judge Crosby noted age and infirmity but upheld a substantial punishment. Comstock had earlier drawn police attention after reporting a robbery of valuable securities on a Fall River boat.
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Harry W. Comstock
Cora Frothingham
Brookline
Superior Criminal Court
House of Correction
Comstock
Colorado
Crosby
Fall River
Priest Bars Rice Confetti and Shoes
Leominster October 25 The Rev Wilfred Palthasard pastor of St Cecilia French Catholic Church bans throwing rice confetti or old shoes at weddings performed in his church or by him. He says the marriage ceremony is too sacred for such light treatment and directs parishioners to refrain from these customs.
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Leominster
Wilfred Palthasard
St. Cecilia
Taylor Seeks Release After Insanity Findings
Brad Taylor who killed his wife with an axe in 1895 at Berlin is seeking discharge from custody with support from the attorney general and physicians. His lawyer filed petitions in Worcester Court noting he was moved from the State Lunatic Asylum to Bridgewater and has since recovered and is now sane.
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Brad Taylor
Berlin
C. W. Rowley
Worcester
State Lunatic Asylum
State Farm
Bridgewater
Taylor
Rade
Methodist bishops confer at Washington meeting opens
The semi annual conference of the college of bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church began in Washington with 17 of 28 bishops present. The governing body of the denomination convened as the major assembly opened today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
College of Bishops
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Hartford Trade Board Opposes Federal Insurance Supervision
The Connecticut State Board of Trade adopted unanimously a resolution opposing federal supervision of insurance after a committee of Hartford insurance company presidents presented their report. The vote followed a Hartford meeting on October 2.
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Hartford
Conn
Hartford Insurance Companies
Connecticut State Board of Trade
Books Fair Highlights Bookland Charity Event at Unitarian Rooms
The Young People's Religious Union opens a Books Fair at the American Unitarian Association rooms, featuring costumed matrons and girls at sales booths with evening programs and a pop concert. Notable guests include Rev. Edgar S. Wiers and Rev. Augustus M. Loud with planned talks by Dr. Howard Everett Hale.
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American Unitarian Association
Edgar S. Wiers
Young People’s Religious Union
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James J. Pratt
Pratt
Mrs. Perkins
Geor Robinson
IRS
Mona Robins
McCurdy
Equitable’s Finances
Mr. McClintock
New York Life
James H. Hyde
Equitable First
George W. Perkins
Mr. Hyde
Equitable
Col. H. W. Comstock
Unitarian Y. P. Religious Union
Jenny W. Sweeny
Nathaniel Hall
Dorchester
Lottie Chase Ham
All Souls Fraternity
Roxbury
Heart of Man
Martha E. Alexander
Winkley Guild
Mother Goose
Alice M. Dicker
East Boston
Hingham
Samuel Crothers
Cambridge
Lillian Freeman Clarke
Frederick T. Clarke
William R. Cole
Cohasset
Helen Collamore
Elizabeth Peabody Channing
Milton
B. P. Cheney, Sr
Wellesley Hills
Charles F. Dole
Jamaica Plain
Charles W. Eliot
A. Quincy Emery
Arthur T. Estabrook
Samuel A. Eliot
John H. Edwards
Waverley
Florence Everett
James Eells
Christopher R. Eliot
Robert D. Evans
Beverly
Emily A. Fifield
Henry D. Forbes
D. B. Flint
W. Scottitt
J. Franklin Faxon
Quincy
Samuel Bellows Greene
Burlington
Frederick R. Griffin
Braintree
Henry Grew
Richard C. Humphreys
John Haynes Holmes
T. Hooper
James Huxtable
South Boston
Edward Everett Hale
Edward A. Horton
Franklin Henry
Medford
Mary L. Hall
John C. Haynes
Julia Ward Howe
Harris Kenedy
Readville
Prescott Keyes
Concord
William B. Lawrence
Wuey Lowell
Alice M. Longfellow
Emma
Roderick Stebbins
E. B. Stillings
Stiss
Elizabeth A. Silsbee
Salem
EF. T. Towle
Henry IF. Tapley
Inn
Thomas van Ness
Kate Gannett Wells
George M. Whipple
George Wigglesworth
Hayward Place
Henry Siegel
Washington & Essex Sts
Essex Street
Boston
China
Wuase
Dras
Siegel
L.uu
Price. Wer Yard
Siegel’s
Panama
Pasa
Illusion Batiste
Louisa Andres
John Grote
Vermont
Montpelier
Vermont Bar Association
Presi
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