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Newspaper
Bridgeport Times
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1920
Page
11
International News Service reports London opening the Michaelmas term with 2600 mismatched couples seeking relief. Courts and prosecutors scrutinize divorce by agreement and fraud, promising stricter controls and potential reforms affecting poor case litigation.
London reports H Robertson Murray calls the Poland versus Russia conflict a farce with minimal bloodshed, criticizing Polish leadership and officers, praising French and British observers, and warning that Trotsky's reserves threaten Poland's stability amid Europe’s fragile peace.
London reports that after the Russo Polish peace protocol at Riga Soviet Russia will concentrate all available forces against General Wrangel's army in the Crimean region. Advices from Riga and Moscow indicate the aim is a military decision or pressure on anti Hel sie factions to seek peace. Armistice on the Russo Polish front remains ineffective until October.
Lansing October 11 Barie Roop an Okemos farmer confessed yesterday to taking his two young daughters Dorothy and Bernice aged 8 and 2 years and burying them alive in the mud at Red Cedar river. He faced a preliminary hearing on a first degree murder charge and stood mute when arraigned pleading not guilty.
A court decides no inquest is needed as Roop stays jailed. He offers a grim justification about the two drowned children, claiming the winter would be hard and the girls were an expense. He says the children are happier now.
In Paris on October 13 the orchestra chorus and stage hands at the Paris Opera voted to strike after director Jacques Rouche refused to alter chorus rules and to limit foreign artists to one every three months prompting walkout actions by staff and performers.
An advertisement extols health as timeless style for women and promotes Dr Pierce's Favorite Remedy and Favorite Prescription. It claims the products improve strength, appearance, and well being, citing a Corning New York testimonial praising relief from nervous debility and menopausal symptoms after two bottles.
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