1910 JUNE MUSICALE PROGRAM - AT HOME OF HORACE N. NOYES - INTERESTING COURT CASE For Sale

We are offering a "June Musicale" Program for a concert held on Sunday, June 5th, 1910, at the Residence of Horace N. Noyes, Westbury, Massachusetts. (3 1/2" x 4 3/4") This is a fancy little program consisting of 3 pgs. plus an advertisement at the back for Horace N. Noyes, Inc., dealer in pianos, with stores in Haverhill and Newburyport. He "guarantees (like Roosevelt) that you will get both a SQUARE and UPRIGHT deal".
**NOTE** - Here is some very interesting information on a 1906 court case that we found on masscases.com involving Horace N. Noyes - "Horace N. Noyes vs. Ethel L. Noyes", in which Noyes was suing his wife Ethel for libel.After sifting through the legalese, here is the gist of the case.Apparently, Noyes had filed for divorce in 1904 on the grounds that his wife had committed adultery. She apparently, had contested the divorce saying that her husband had connived with a certain man to bring her to his house in order to engage in adultery with her. We assume her husband denied his involvement, implying that his wife knowingly and purposely engaged in adultery on her own, as he was suing her for libel. In court, three men, who were employed by Horace Noyes, testified that they entered the house with a key and went upstairs waiting for Ethel and the man to enter the house. The men testified that they waited for a certain amount of time to pass, went downstairs, and found evidence that the couple had engaged in adultery. The judge dismissed the libel case against Ethel. The judge said, "the evidence warranted that Noyes wanted his wife to commit adultery, or at least that she should be placed in such a compromising position as to lead to the inference of the committal of that act; that he desired to do this so that he might get a divorce and be freed from her, and his real estate be free from any claim on her part."

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