They sent each other clippings. I haven't found any clipping wars in Grandma's box of yellowing letters, but I remember her engaging in a few.
This is a clipping found tucked into one of the letters sent to her, from one of her friends. It is suitable to this blog because I'm having trouble throwing the silly thing away, for some reason, and I expect that once it's enshrined here it will be easier to let it go. I have no idea what newspaper it was clipped from. And at this point I'm not sure which decade it came from. It was either the thirties or the forties.
HE'D BUILD FENCE AROUND HIS WIFE
Here is what Francis Mac. Jones, well-to-do Angeleno, threatened to do to his wife, Cornelia, according to her divorce complaint filed in Superior Court yesterday.
Build a 10-foot fence with barbed wire topping it. Put Mrs. Jones inside the enclosure. Then when men came to see her, they would tear their clothing on the wire -- and Jones could identify them.
Mrs. Jones asked $25,000 attorney fees and appropriate alimony, her husband, she asserted, being worth $750,000.
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Update - I found another clipping in which a man asked the local police to lock up his wife until the Navy ship in port had sailed because she liked sailors too much. The police declined. Together with a few clipped cartoons, this makes a trend.
