Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1920 — PARROT CAUSES DIVORCE [ARTICLE]

PARROT CAUSES DIVORCE

Wife Taught Bird to Swear at Huaband. He Alleges. Seeking divorce from his wife. Malt-, by Messick of Atlantic City, N. J.» feels that he has sufficient grounds, because she has taught a parrot, to “cuss,him out.” It was alleged that Mrs. Messick said she was “teaching the bird to cuss and swear so it could express her opinion of her husband when he got home.”