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...Louis newspapers had made front-page news day after day, week after week. The "corpus"which one woman sought from the other was that of a 15-week-old baby whom both claimed to have borne. It had taken three weeks for Commissioner Limbaugh to hear their tales. Plaintiff Anna Ware, broadfaced Pennsylvania servant girl, said she had been working for a couple in Newtown, Pa. when the man of the house got her into trouble. His wife sent her to St. Louis where the wife's mother was a midwife. In her house Anna said she bore...
...baby, "a gift from God in her time of distress." The enterprising Post-Dispatch produced evidence to show that an infant previously planted in the Muench home in July had subsequently died. The rival Star-Times turned up clues indicating that the "gift of God'' belonged to Anna Ware, not to Mrs. Muench, whose marriage had been childless for 23 years. After a change of venue, Mrs. Muench was acquitted of the kidnapping charge by a jury of farmers and small shopkeepers at Mexico, Mo. (TIME, Oct. 21). Under terrific pressure from Press and public, the habeas corpus...
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...receive no other aid. A tome of 504 pages, For Better, Not For Worse surveys the whole of marriage and many another subject in the practiced manner of a platform denouncer. Dr. Maier quotes from such sources as Dancing Master William P. Rivers, Raymond Duncan, Proverbs, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, John Bunyan, Robert Briffault, Dora Russell, Mme Blavatsky, Mary Baker Eddy, Humbert Wolfe, Francis Bacon, Solomon, Dr. Johnson, Tolstoy, Cardinal Faulhaber, Kathleen Norris, Prince von Bülow, Martin Luther, Arthur Davison Ficke, Erdman Harris, The Spirit of Lord Northcliffe, Swedenborg, Joseph Choate and countless others...
...Mused Claudette Colbert: "It's all so silly. . . . We're not married yet. We're just engaged." In Hollywood, Cinemactor Clark Gable for the sixth time in six weeks denied reports that he is dead. To Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital for observation was sent one Anna Mesina, 34, because she has for three years pestered Crooner Rudy Vallee by visiting his office, announcing that he is her husband, father of her six children. Sold in Los Angeles for a U. S. stock show record price of 35? per lb. was a carload of William Randolph Hearst...