RENO DIVORCE CASES
ACTIONS AT STANDSTILL
GREAT BANKING FAILURE
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 20
Hundreds of divorcees are stranded at Reno owing to the failure of 12 Wingfield banks which handled 00 per cent of Nevada's business. George Wingfield himself the famous frontiersman, and all liis stockholders are wiped out. Only 700,000 dollars in cash remains of the 16,000,000 dollars deposited in these banks. It is estimated that 4,000,000 dollars was deposited by visitors from all parts of the United States, who are establishing their residence qualification to become disunited in the Reno divorce mill, which is at a standstill through tho financial crisis.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21346, 22 November 1932, Page 9
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