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...BARTLETT...
...musk ox stands 5 ft. tall at the shoulder, has a broad heavy head, large curved horns, can live on Arctic vegetation which would starve a reindeer. Because of their hardy qualities, attempts were made two years ago to domesticate them for use as Arctic cows. Capt. Robert Abram Bartlett, leader of the Northeast Greenland Expedition, has two tame musk ox mascots which he captured in Greenland. Under its shaggy coat, the musk ox has a close covering of woolly fleece which experiments (at the University of Leeds, England) have shown to be excellent for cloth. It dyes and bleaches...
...March 17, 1927, five minutes before it adjourned its midnight session the Nevada Legislature passed Assembly Bill No. 195 which reduced state residence for divorce from six to three months. Last year Judges Bartlett & Moran together granted 2,071 divorces, of which only 700 went to husbands. Grounds and decrees on each: cruelty (mental) 1,268; desertion 388; non-support 376; insanity 284; adultery 54; drunkenness 24; felony conviction 3; impotency 1. Under the U. S. Constitution's faith-and-credit, Nevada divorces are recognized as legal in all states except South Carolina (no divorce law), New Jersey...
...lawyer and the wife's witness who swears to her three months' state residence march up the 13 steps of the court house, climb to the second floor, enter the judge's chambers. The average hearing does not take more than 15 minutes. Judge Bartlett has a quick comprehension of marital troubles, needs few details. Children and property cause no hitch, providing the husband and wife have agreed on these matters in advance. If a defendant refuses to accept service or to appoint a Reno attorney to represent him, the plaintiff must wait an additional 40 days...
...Famed persons divorced by Judge Bartlett in the last four years: Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., Irving T. Bush (terminal), Mrs. Bainbridge Colby (diplomacy), Janet Flagg Harlan Trubee (judiciary), Claire Brokaw (Vanity Fair), Eugenia Bankhead Hoyt Butt Lee (Actress Tallulah's sister), Jessica Sargeant (now Mrs. Richard Barthelmess), Evelyn Marshall Field (department store), Walker Inman (tobacco), Delphine Dodge Cromwell Baker (automobile), Edward Delafield (finance), Louise Annette Thompson (railroad), John Bellinger Bellinger (Army), Lora I. Knight (aviation), Beryl Curtis Ward (bread), Dorothy Cochrane Karageorgevitch (Serbian royalty), Peter Arthur Drury Jr. (Washington, D. C.), Sidi Wirt Spreckels (sugar), Adelaide Rhinelander Chaqueneau...