Three Mail Order Wives Cost Man Divorce in Michigan Court
In Marshall Michigan on October 29 court heard Joseph Sturgis a Lee farmer sue for divorce after three marriages to mail order wives who failed to meet expectations. He forfeited 300 to start a New York wife who turned out invalid and in a wheelchair then paid 500 more, later 590, before she married him only to desert and return to New York. The court granted the divorce.
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Marshall, Mich
Joseph Sturgis
Lee Farmer
Mororce
Sturgis
New York City
England
Marshall
New York
Baby Never Kissed Rules Allege Careful Parents Keep
London lives with his parents at Bedford a nine months old baby has never been kissed. A set of visitor rules hangs inside the house signed by the father and mother forbidding kissing handling and face contact. The rules warn readers that violations will incur displeasure.
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London
Bedford
Baby with 167 ancestors claims grandparent record
Agnes Naomi Read Gulley of McGregor Indiana is said to have the most ancestors among 100000 babies, with 58 grandparents in the direct line reaching back through generations. Her great great grandmother Lydia Shrake counters with 167 total descendants including five Civil War soldier sons.
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Agnes Naomi Read Gulley
Lydia Shrake
Trial Marriages as Campaign Issue Hits Parsons
New York October 29 Herbert Parsons candidate for reelection is attacked as an advocate of trial marriages by an anonymous circular. The pamphlet cites his wife’s book The Family which discussed trial marriages as a possible social remedy. Parsons denounces the claim and says he will take no action against the attackers.
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New York
Herbert Parsons
Parsons
Henry Clews
Dykeman to Vote After Illness Recovery
Judge D D Dykeman, previously ill for some time, has recovered enough to visit the polls and cast his vote next Tuesday.
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D. D.dykeman
Pretty Girl Catches Thieves Then Traps Them
In Chicago on October 29 Miss Louella Kautz, twenty, exposed two robbers posing as railway clerks, lured them for a walk, and alerted police. Officers found two suitcases of women's finery and missing diamonds in their rooms, along with clearing-house checks of 47 to 170 dollars.
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Chicago
Louella Kautz
Bridewell
Kautz
Miss Kautz
Cochran
Jefferson
Chicago Avenue
Jefferson and
Night prowlers alarm East End residents
East End residents report suspicious strangers prowling near homes late at night. Harry Benica of 1620 High Street saw men in his yard and a Brown Street 1610 call reported a prowler. no robberies occurred.
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East End
Harry Benica
1620
High Street
Brown
Broadway
Murphy Resigns from Island View Clerk Post
Frank Murphy, a twenty year clerk at the Island View hotel, resigns to start a confectionery and cigar store business in Robinson, Illinois, with his son.
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Frank Murphy
Island View
Robinson, Ill
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Herbertt Parsons
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Yient
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S Xi
Roo Eoeg
Botok
Koomoray
Japan
Nickel
Rayo
Standard Oil Company (Incorporated
Night Prowlers
Murphy
Turkey
THE
Seybold Dry Goods CO
Adgt
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Pover
Royal Soap
Ter
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Henis Press
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