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Do marrying couples since World War I come from homes a greater distance apart than the couples of earlier decades? In Philadelphia more marriages were contracted between persons living within five blocks of each other in I93I than in i885, i905, or i9i5. Other trends within the city are not consistent. However, there seem to be practically no differences in the percentage of Philadelphians who chose mates outside the city, as between the years i905, i915, and
Ray H. Abrams (Tue,) studied this question.