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Insanity = on the Increase . darger _ fe "BUT LESS IER and These Are Attributed } to Prohibition. AN records for tigation in the Su- | Yprame Court here have been broken | this year. The first case filed In the County Clerk's office to-day was No. 49,190, ‘and an hour later this had been in- @reaced by another 100 cases. At the! present rate when the office closos for the year's business on Dec. 31, the total number of cases on the books for 1931 will be In the neighborhood of 52,000. ‘The previous record of Supreme oe BECAUSE OF QUARROL over fecding the puppy before the children, New York broker living in, White. Plains rust keep away from home, My wife .$100 a weck,.aud.sge bis two children only ys and tolldays. DUCK ate dry coment which get in ita stomach and af concrete that killed It MAN CHARGED In sfparation suit with enwelty told Justice Burr the was only wiping the ronge from hid wife's Ips 60 he could Kiss her. PAGE MRS. SANG Tex., has had four b bi in 1921, and sho has j' i YOUNG, thirty, of Abilene, area year. A boy arrived carly nod husband with three more. GOV. GROPSBNCKR of Michigen went to Detroit, and with others who made their 8 8 newsboye, sold papers on the strect to raise money for the ‘ "S had their anchor chains 60 badly tang r¢ nday's vlo'tt will Teauire several days work to unseramble them. NEXT TIME THE “AMAZONS*-4n the Karmaassmine war get fractious the military authorities aré to“tse “tear g9a!* on them MRS. CATHERINE CARLEY turned In a flretalarm at Prov- idence to get into her home. The children Idoked her out and her husband, who had the only key, is a fireman. When he came on the hose cart she askedghim to please unlock the door for her. MONTGOMERY, N. ¥., BOY is-dlsconsolate because parents sold ink to a fur dealer, Neighbors had complainea Court cases was made in 1916, when 1,60 were filed, but this year tcps the 1916 record by more than 8,000) canes. One of the outstanding figures of these court records however, {3 a @ecrease in the number of sults for Mivorce. Last year 1,264 disgruntled | husbands or wives sought solace in| the divorce mill, while for the same | 44 Period this year but 1,307 have en- @eavored to sever the maritial ti te ‘An increase also is. noted by clerks | fm the County Clerk's office in the | lm mamber of nity cases, and from | 0 their of the records they at- @ribute this in.one wey and another fo the advent of Prohibition, It is @heir belief that the various brands ; ‘et “hooch” has had more to do than any other factor in this increased in- panity. ‘ ‘This year also has brought a. new | @ofendant into the court records, He | % “The People versus —— Bottles, wf Whiskey, or Wine pr Gin} et al.” More than 2,000 of these cases were ied during the year and are actions Wrought by the State to confiscate Mquor seized by the Police Depart ment ‘Legal paper’ oow are being fled in County Clerk’s office at the rate @f about $00 a day, while in 1910, When County Clerk William F. Gobnelder took office and the Bronx ‘was included in New York Count, the fetal for the year was only about 94,000. Despite this big increase, no appropriation has been asked eonduct of the office. The same force anetely is “on its toes” aN the time. 1 “It's been a good year for the law- ers,” said Mr, Schnelder to-day, and { hope it also has been a good ne for their clients.” GREAT GERMAN RADIO WHI Be Able to Commiinteate Alt RUFNOS Press.) —A teas dtation hi Aires, and | point All over the worl, Sn Ing and in PLANT IN ARGENTINA |: Over the World. ar Home. jonte Grand: Through the efforts of Mra. Tt rday. ations @istant. 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Barker. Mrs. Alice Hearn Barker, wife of Dr, Percival Martin Barker, daugh- ter of the late George Arnold Hearn and granddaughter of the founder of the dry goods firm of James A. Hearn & Son, died at her home, No. 200 Park Avenuo, yestemtay of pneumo- nia. Mrs. Barker was married to Dr. Rarker in December, 1917, at the home of her uncle-in-law, Clarkson Cowl, No, 430 Park Avenuo, ‘The Rev. Dr. ‘Phepdore I. Savage of Christ Pres- byterian Church performed the cere- mony. The following notice was sent to the newspapers last night: “Because of the death of Mrs, Perelval M. Harker, the daughter of the late George Arnold Hearn, the Heara stores on Weat 14th ‘Street will be closed on Wednesday aod Thursday, Dec. 21 and Dec ieee CONEN APPLICATION TO GAVEGAN the matter of the application for the dismissal of the indictment charging Joseph Cohen with responaibility for the killing of Barnet Baff, West Wash- — ington Market poultry dealer, was re- ferred to Supreme Court Justice Gave- f gan yesterday by Snpreme Court Jus- tice Whitaker on motion of Goldstein & Goldstein, Cohen's attorneys. The notion for @ treasfer, waa not opposed by Deputy Attorney’ General Berger. Justice Gavegan a few weeks ago ranted Cohen a new trial, ARDMORE KILLING LAID TO BAND OF 150 Prosecutor Says They Met in “Death Pasture,” Where Vic- tim Was Slain. 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Gilliam, stock raiser of Ard- more, who is held under band on a charge of murder, the county attor- ney declared that, according to signed statements, every prominent man that was arrested was in the “death pasture.” In this pasture wos found the body of Sims, oud it was there, authori- ties say, that the band of masked men g‘.thcrod before ma: tack uova Carrol, aed warned to cease his “ traffic. © Bnnhuitack: A Furriers A. JAECKEL & CO. FIFTH AVENUE Between 35th-36th Streets otten Gift can easily be secured with the assurance of happi- ness and pleasure to the giver and recipient. can be doneincom- fort and with con- fidence if your se- lection is Fur Coat, Wrap or Neckpiece This of the Jaeckel & Co. quality. Exclusively A Hi United Full Aviation Records. A copy way be. had by Ready January if 1922 World Almanac Conference on the Limitation of Armaments and the Pacific and Far East Problems. Peace Resolution, Proclamation and New Treaty With Germany. Analysis of 1920 Census. 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