{"id":23618,"date":"2025-06-15T19:25:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T02:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=23618"},"modified":"2025-06-15T19:26:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T02:26:53","slug":"wails-of-sax-makes-ma-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/23618","title":{"rendered":"Wails of Sax Makes Ma Leave"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I stumbled on this newspaper article and thought it was one of the strangest justifications for divorce I&#8217;d ever seen.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Wails-of-Sax.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"435\" height=\"655\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Wails-of-Sax.jpg\" alt=\"Wails of Sax Makes Ma Leave\" class=\"wp-image-23619\" style=\"width:350px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Wails-of-Sax.jpg 435w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Wails-of-Sax-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">&#8220;Wails of Sax Makes Ma Leave.&#8221; The Escanaba Daily Press, 17 January 1930. HTML edition, archived. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers.com\/article\/the-escanaba-daily-press-wails-of-sax-ma\/174599530\/\">https:\/\/www.newspapers.com\/article\/the-escanaba-daily-press-wails-of-sax-ma\/174599530\/<\/a> : accessed 15 June 2025), column 2; citing print edition, p. 1.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Wails Of Sax Makes Ma Leave<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>     Detroit, Jan. 16 (AP)&#8212;Four wailing saxophones in the hands and mouths of persons &#8220;afflicted with notions that some day they might be musicians&#8221; drove Mrs. Augusta Rebitske, 60, from home, she testified in her divorce suit here today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>     Judge Guy A. Miller granted her a decree after hearing her story of the musical aspirations of her two step-sons, step-daughter and A step-granddaughter. Among other acts of cruelty on the part of the husband, John Rebitske, was his failure to stop the wails of the four instruments, Mrs. Rebitske said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Copyright \u00a9 2025 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stumbled on this newspaper article and thought it was one of the strangest justifications for divorce I&#8217;d ever seen. 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