Word: wilno
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...years ago Poland's Reno was a small Calvinist church in Wilno. So brisk was its business that several bishops were tried and fined for bootlegging divorces. The traffic passed to the Orthodox Church, proceeded scandalously. The usual method of getting a divorce was to pay some clergyman 500 zlotys ($90). In Warsaw alone 1,200 divorces were granted during the past two years...