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About child mortality, 1910
Regarding the importance of census and its use in social issues, rates of child mortality in Tehran, and the need to educate mothers in health and hygiene
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Arrest of a woman carrying a gun, 1911
Daughter of Haji Muhammad Ibrahim from Baghdad, an Ottoman national, divorced her husband, Sayyid Hasan from Ganjah. Her brother-in-laws were plotting to kill her, therefore she carried a gun. She was arrested when she went to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for a legal issue.
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Arrest of ‘Aziz Aqa for carrying a gun, 1911
‘Aziz Aqa, a female entertainer, purchased a six-shooter carrier after the brothers of her divorced husband, Sayyid Hasan from Ganjah, had threatened to kill her. She was arrested for carrying the gun on her way to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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Battering a woman, 1911
The head of police has beaten a woman after her husband's complaint that she took away his household furnishings after their divorce.
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Filicide, 1910
Sadiq, with the help of the sister of his first wife, killed his son from his second wife who had died a while after she was divorced, by throwing him in a well; the sister-in-law confessed and was sentenced to death by being thrown from a high location
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Giving the power of attorney for divorce and resolving disputes, 1911
Mirza Zayn al-‘Abidin should investigate the dispute between Shaykh Muhammad ‘Ali and his wife (daughter of Shaykh Muhammad Riza), and Shaykh Muhammad ‘Ali's sister and her husband (Haj Shaykh ‘Abd al-Husayn), over the ownership of some household furnishings. Additionally, Mirza Zayn al-‘Abidin will witness the divorce of Shaykh Muhammad ‘Ali and his wife, and Shaykh Muhammad ‘Ali promises not to go back to his wife after the divorce. Shaykh Muhammad ‘Ali and Shaykh Muhammad Riza's seals are at the end of the document.
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Khanum Masha’ Allah's petition regarding her divorce, 1928
Petition written by Khanum Masha’ Allah, daughter of the late Karbalayi Husayn Baqqal [the grocer], to Sayyid Abu al-Qasim, regarding her divorce from her husband, Sayyid Husayn, son of Sayyid Shukr Allah, and forgoing her mahr.
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Lawyer's notes
One side: Settlement and divorce agreement between ‘Ali Akbar Saqat-furush (vendor), son of Haji Muhammad Riza Tajir (merchant) from Kazirun, and his wife, Khanum Zaman; the other side: A note about the dispute over the ownership of Bustan-i Shahab Abad
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Murder of three-year-old daughter, 1911
A man, who has two wives, kills his own daughter from his first wife, so that he could divorce her mother.
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Polyandry in India, 1910
An article published in the German local newspaper, Anzeiger, talks about the custom of polyandry in certain tribes in India