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...whereabouts of his father. To save her husband from certain death Mrs. Hart (Dorothy Revier) weepingly calls in the Law. Father Hart is caught in time by the police and sentenced to seven years for manslaughter. In prison the sore festers, he is convinced that his wife has rid herself of him in order to take up with Sheridan, his "best friend" (Matt Moore). Follows a prison break in which Hart escapes and returns to his home, vengeance-bent. As he enters he overhears his spouse retailing to Sheridan how she saved her husband from his enemies' submachine guns. Remorse...
...Carolina (no divorce law), New Jersey and Massachusetts. The actual court costs of a divorce are about $40. Lawyers' fees average from $250 to $10,000 in uncontested cases, depending on the wealth of each client. Exclusive of railroad fare, a woman if she is careful, can legally rid herself of an objectionable husband at Reno for about...
Another early problem was the fact that some residents with automobiles drove to neighboring towns to go shopping, and a few residents even moved out. But this has stopped. Says Dr. Paul B. Lonergan, now president of the Association: "It rid the town of its God-given deadbeats." He is a strong booster of the plan because after two years of practice in Bloomfield he had lost $2,200 through bad debts...
...witnesses, Harry Reutlinger of the American, testified that to get rid of Brundidge, who "had made a pest of himself," he had filled him with fanciful tales of newspaper-racketeering, even told him that he, Reutlinger, was a racketeer...
Gramophone-Graphophone. Gramophone Co., Ltd., is the British affiliate of Radio Corp. Columbia Graphophone Co., Ltd., is an English graphophone company with a U. S. subsidiary, Columbia Phonograph Co., Inc. Last week it was reported that Columbia Graphophone, Ltd. would rid itself of Columbia Phonograph Co., probably by sale to some cinema company, to be able to merge with Gramophone. Negotiations for a Gramophone-Graphophone merger were begun in 1929, reputedly under the direction of Morgan Partner Thomas Cochran, but Radio Corp.'s ownership of Victor Talking Ma-chine make it desirable for the English Columbia Graphophone...