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Stations on the Rock Island Railway company's service may be “hoodooes to matrimony.Officials in the court house are beginning to wonder, if Cupid has put the “jinx sign on. that railroad’s offices.In token thereof, two divorce suits were on fije today, touching iiuSuaiids of vv*vc5 of station agents.“Ought to be Killed” 5uotedMrs. Margaret B. Kincaid, sta-tipn agent, at Morse, and Mrs. Alta Seevell, station agent at Oasis, are the complainants.Mrs. Kincaid, alleges that William Kincaid, her husband, has j kicked and struck her,xused vile names, and declared she 'ought to be killed.In addition thereto, she asserts, he has not been supporting her or the children, for several years, and that she wants him placed j under a writ of injunction to keep him from trespassing at her home. She declares that she has acquired, through her own toil and sacrifice, an automobile (a Ford touring car) and that she ought to have the custody of their three minor children, Marguerite, Mildred, and Kenneth, aged, respectively, 18, li and 9.Another Wife is Statiop AgentAlta Seevell, Oasis station agent, avers that John P. Seevell, her hqsband, has been guilty of vile conduct variously, and she asks that, as an unfaithful husband, he-be deprived of the ’custody of Jane, aged 18,and Alton, 16, and that she be divorced and given ?60 a month alimony.
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Iowa City Press Citizen

Iowa City, Iowa, US

Sat, Sep 15, 1923

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