RUSSIA
MARRIED WOMEN’S PROPERTY. POISONING MYSTERY UNSODVED. AN EPIDEMIC OF HYSTERIA. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —CopyrightST. PETERSBURG, April Tlie Czar has assented to a Bill extending personal and property rights lo married women of all classes. U permits separation, which the Holy Synod always opposed. The poisoning mystery is unsolved. Scores of women in half a dozen different works have been stricken with faintness, necessitating their being sent to the hospital. Some scientists suggest that it is an epidemic of hysteria. It is more* generally believed that the strike leaders have enlisted the services of a clover chemist in order to foment discontent among the working classes. Doctors are unable to trace’any chemicals.
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Southland Times, Issue 17619, 6 April 1914, Page 5
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112RUSSIA Southland Times, Issue 17619, 6 April 1914, Page 5
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