MAIL ORDER BRIDE
HUSBAND'S APPLICATION FOR DIVORCE Picric teacher at the oneroom school (f a t ? nv French monn, tain village, is suing his mail-order bride fo>- divorcer He claims that he has been the victim of a substitution. Last winter, M. Gerard, determined to end tlie loneliness of lr's mountain retreat. He sent a matrimonial advertisement to a tcachers' magazine. There were seven replies. One was from a young woman living nt Tours. The dainty hnndwrit- ; iicE beautiful style, as well as the evidence of thorough education, won his heart and after a long correspondence he went to Tours and claimed his bride. After the marriage he began to realise that tiie letters he had received had litlle in common with h s bride. H's suspicions we v e confirmed when he saw a letter to the bride from her sister. The handwriting wns exactly the same ?s th-n of th-> letters he had received during his postal courtship. T-fis bride, in confessed thai her s'ste* - :< school ten' , h ,, r. h°d writthe letters. The sister also con- "• : So ?d. Gerard, adds Exchange ! 'ro r .i Pr.r?s. has asked his lawyer to sue for divorce.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 46, 7 August 1939, Page 3
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195MAIL ORDER BRIDE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 46, 7 August 1939, Page 3
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