Friday, May 2, 2008

Wed 42 Years; Quits Mate

1920

Wife Bases Her Suit on Man's Love Affair of 1898.

MANCHESTER, N. H. — Mrs. Ida Pingree has brought suit for divorce against her husband, John D. Pingree, after nearly forty-two years of married life. She bases her claim for a separation on an alleged love affair of her husband twenty-two years ago. Mrs. Pingree has attached her husband's property here and in the neighboring town of Derry, where he is a prosperous farmer. The wife is living with a married daughter.

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Aug. 7, 1920, p. 3.

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