Sunday, August 4, 2013
The profits of love: early 1900′s
If only the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) had been in place in the early 1900s then Allie Patterson’s serial marrying career might have brought her increased emotional satisfaction and better profits.
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The journal entry was made in the probate court case [in Mansfield, Ohio] of Allie Patterson vs. William G. Patterson, which came on for hearing yesterday before Judge Bricker, who granted the defendant a divorce on his answer and cross petition. The plaintiff failed to appear. It was learned from the defendant’s attorney, C. H. Workman, that this is the fourth husband who has secured a divorce from her. At the hearing yesterday Henry Boader, her first husband, was present and testified that she tried to shoot him a couple of times, besides trying to poison him before he got a divorce. (more...)
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