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Brute of a Husband Leads to Spokane Divorce Claim
Mrs. Maries Mann petitions for divorce from John Lester Mann in Spokane superior court. She claims four years of marriage forced her to labor from 4 a.m. to past 10 p.m. with chores on a wheat ranch including cooking for 80 threshers, tending livestock, and farm work while she was ill. The filing notes she was barred from visiting relatives or home, and Mann offers no defense yet. The article also briefly recounts contemporaneous remarks about Peary and Cook at the Pole and an Arctic expedition joke by Captain Osbon.
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Maries Mann
John Lester Mann
Spokane County
Cook
Whitney
Peary
Osbon