RENO DIVORCES
DEPRESSION CAUSES BIG DROP Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. CHICAGO, November 29. (Received November 30, at 2 p.m.) A message from Reno states that the depression has caused a 500,000 dollar shortage in the divorce business there this year. It is estimated that there lias been a 25 per cent, decline in divorces. Whereas last year 3,105 couples wore divorced, this year there were about 2,200. Though other States have now liberalised their divorce laws, it is yet believed that lack of funds caused the diminution.
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Evening Star, Issue 21582, 30 November 1933, Page 12
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87RENO DIVORCES Evening Star, Issue 21582, 30 November 1933, Page 12
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