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Title: The Survey October 1916-March 1917
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Survey Associates Charity Organization Society of the City of New York
Subjects: Charities Social problems
Publisher: (East Stroudsburg, Pa., Survey Associates)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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. The place was raided ; Mrs.Byrne, Mrs. Sanger and the registra-tion clerk, Fania Mindell, were allarrested. When Mrs. Byrne, who was the firstof the trio to face trial, was sentencedto thirty days imprisonment, she imme-diately refused to take food or water asa protest against a law she holds unjustand unconstitutional. At the end ofthree days she was forcibly fed and atthe end of nine days, through a petitionof women to the governor, she was par-doned by Governor Whitman on theunderstanding she would no longer dis-obey the law. It was established that Miss Mindellsold a book, entitled What Every GirlShould Know. She was fined $50. It was not proved that MargaretSanger herself either sold contraceptivesor literature on birth control. More-over, Judge Freschi raised the questionwhether the articles displayed at theclinic were used to prevent conception.But although Mrs. Sangers attorneyasked for a dismissal of the case on thegrounds that the law was unconstitu- THE NEW YORK TIMES. TV
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Mary Hunt Attacks Fifth Ave.Doctors for Service to Rich WhichShe Says Is Denied the Poor. Three thousand persins at Carncsle Call last night started a eoi cert novernent lot the lepen! of the i: /. 1 ddlhg the dissemination of b^rth control knowledge. Mis Margaret Saltier, in whose trialfor conducting a birth control clinic de- day, made a speech In which she threwall caution aside and removed all doubas to her purpose when she declaredwhile the crowd cheered her wildly, that1she had devoted her life to the causivoluntary motherhood, and would (tinue to fight for birth control, court: ^( J Sanger 1 . sister of Mrs. Ethela hunger 6trtke in theIsland workhouee, serving a BIRTH CONTROL NEWS OF A DAY tional, that the case was outside thejurisdiction of the Court of Special Ses-sions and that evidence of guilt was in-sufficient, she was adjudged guilty andsentenced to thirty days in the work-house. BANNING THE NUDE IN THEMOVIES HAVING decided some weeks agonot to pass any motion-picture fi

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