BOBS HER HAIR, SLAPS PARSON FOR CRITICISM.
i*. (Special to the “ Star. ”) SAN FRANCISCO, May IS. Bobbed hair is sacred to womanhood. At least this seems to be the idea of Martha Bates, 20, pretty mountain girl, who was sentenced to thirty days in gaol at Whitesburg, Kentucky, because she slapped Rev Arlie Brown, voung minister, who criticised bobbed hair in a sermon. Miss Bates at her trial set up a defense that she felt resentment at the minister’s criticisms of womanhood
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17915, 3 August 1926, Page 12
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