The State Library holds a set of the nineteenth-century paper called the Boston Atlas. For the edition published Wednesday morning, May 24, 1854, we found the following notice on page 2:
“A woman has sued for divorce in Indiana, on the ground that her husband’s feet were so cold it distressed her. A case of clear incompatibility of temperament and of sole.”
Did the woman from Indiana ever get her divorce? We don’t know. She may have gotten cold feet.
Beth Carroll-Horrocks
Head of Special Collections
