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Word: bartholomeo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just about a year ago, according to the testimony she last week swore to in a Newark court, a wayward New Jersey girl named Anna Bartholomeo found herself pregnant and speedily learned about " 'Dr.' Harley's place." This was an eleven-room house in a respectable Newark neighborhood where one George E. Harley, a genteel little malpractitioner, conducted an anti-birth insurance business. For $2 a month, paid in advance, "Dr." Harley guaranteed that no cus tomer need have a baby. For contracep tive he dispensed a "Magic Oil." In case of pregnancy he stood ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Anti-Birth Insurance | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

Police exulted over those tell-tale photo graphs when they raided this abortorium last autumn. But prosecutors did not need to subpoena any of the women as witnesses, for Anna Bartholomeo, 20, inmate of the North Jersey Training School for Girls, testified willingly. This young woman went to the Harley establishment last spring, when she was three months pregnant. Because she had neglected to take out a Harley anti-birth policy, "Dr." Harley wanted to charge her $150 for the abortion. Her "friend," who accompanied her, haggled the charge down to $125, whereupon Anna Bartholomeo was promptly delivered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Anti-Birth Insurance | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

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