Woman Traps "Spirit" Hand

1920

Boy "Dip's" Exploit in Movie Show Lands Him in Jail

CHICAGO — While watching a film drama entitled "The Spirit Hand" in a Chicago movie house, Mrs. Samuel Marks felt a phantom mitt steal gently into her purse on her lap. Though aware that the spooks are hard to catch, Mrs. Marks grabbed the hand. The owner, a 17-year-old youth, broke her clutch and danced over many bunions in dashing from the theater. He was finally cornered in a restaurant, where he declared "the picture had made his hand absent-minded."

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Feb. 28, 1920, p. 8.


Eight Is Too Many Wives

Last Bride of Ex-Soldier Has Her Marriage Annulled

WORCESTER, Mass. — Mary W. Cooper of Worcester told Judge Lawton in Superior Court that when she married James W. Treat, an ex-soldier in the Army, she never dreamed he was such a much-married man. She learned, she said, after she went through the ceremony, that Treat has gone through a similar ceremony with seven other women, and that he had not taken the trouble to divorce any of them. She asked that her marriage be nullified, and Judge Lawton granted her petition.