This newspaper article reporting the divorce granted the wife of my grandfather’s brother (after 10 years of marriage) was published in the San Francisco Examiner in January 1917.
The reason given for the divorce is classic.
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OH My, this was Once beyond shame and great painful extreme embarrassment. Intentionally omitted from family history, for anyone that didn’t already know…the rule of thumb was “Don’t bring that up”,”God forbid, word get’s out” or “none of your business”. But media of early 1900’s thrived on such news. “Oh, that terrible family” and “can you believe that”.
Unimaginable today. During Hawaii sovereignty half native, half Caucasian referred to as “Half Cast’s”.
Today, half Hawaiian is a lot!
The idea of same sex marriage now norm, in the future marriage may be bus loads of anything goes groups of human, animals and freaky robots??? Anything will be norm!
Simmer down toots
So in 1917 your great-uncle was “an aviator in the United States Army at Nogales, Arizona.” I wonder whether he was still there in August 1918 when the Battle of Ambos Nogales, which was sort of part of World War I, took place there.