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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 »

More than 2,000 women in Newark, New York City and neighboring communities subscribed to the system of this abortionist whose name echoed London's famed Harley Street where England's most honorable doctors have their offices...

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

Newark's "Dr." Harley was called both an osteopath and a chiropractor last week. According to an imposing certificate on his office wall, issued by a diploma mill called the "American Academy of Medicine & Surgery," he is a "Doctor of Medicine & Master Diagnostician." Subscribers to his anti-birth plan submitted photographs of themselves in street clothes and in the nude, and received numbered identification cards...

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

...things now stand, the quarter milers need to improve considerably before they will be winning points with regularity equal to the middle distance squads 'Powerhouse' Berizzi is the pace-setter for this contingent, with Frank Coleman taking second honors. Harley 'Steamboat' Stowell gave early promise of developing into a reliable 440 swimmer, but illness has forced him to scratch from the recent meets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 1/19/1937 | See Source »

...Harley Lyman Clarke continued to sputter on the sidelines last week after the 77B petition was accepted. Meanwhile Mr. Odium, holding 40% of the company's debt, prepared to take an active hand in remodeling the power pyramid into what the Public Utility Act of 1935 calls a "demonstrably useful" holding company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Clarke Squelched | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

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