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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1879
Page
6
A Globe interview chronicles Emerson Hooley and George Coes, detailing the Megatherian Minstrels rise from small hotel dining rooms to touring circuits. The piece covers Hooley's shifts through San Francisco and Brooklyn venues, Coes's long minstrel career, and a humorous anecdote about a misnamed Megatherian tag and a chaotic hotel scene.
In Nantes 1795 a young corporal faced death for drunken insubordination but earned a pardon with a vow to never drink again. The colonel demanded his promise for life, and Cambronne swore on God to abstain forever, a pledge he kept through twenty five years as General.
In a Boston 1879 letter, Abigail Perkins vents fury at her son-in-law Dodd and defends her harsh methods. She recalls religious restraint, her daughters, and a household row sparked by marriage plans, setting up a broader saga of love, duty, and conflict.
Lieutenant Day of the Sixth United States Infantry applies for Private George Poister to enter Washington National Soldiers Home. Poister, aged about eighty, claims sixty six years of service from France 1815 through Civil War battles and later service with the Twenty fifth New York and Seventh New York regiments, with wounds at Gaine’s Mill and Bentonville. He fractured his collar bone at Fort Abraham Lincoln but continued service.
Charley Cocurane, longtime groom for trotter Goldsmith Maid, visits owner Mr. Smith in New Jersey to see the mare and her colt. The mare, once wary, joyfully recognizes Cocurane and rubs heads, nuzzles, and paces after him as he leaves.
A fashionably dressed young man on Pantry Road gazes at a pond and wishes to save his heated head there. Adrishmin overhears and quips that he might lie there and it would not sink.
A Detroit shopkeeper on Jefferson Avenue saves a desperate stranger from suicide by leaving the trap door open as the man, soaked and distressed, plans to leap into the river. The visitor thanks him, vows to reform, then vanishes into the cellar, leaving behind four dozen pocketknives and gloves.
The article traces the evolution of citizenship from ancient Polis to modern United States law, detailing collective and individual naturalization, colonial roots, key acts from 1790 onward, residence and oath requirements, and rules for minors and special groups, plus issues of fraud and inheritance rights.
A collage of autumn verse fragments and humorous vignettes, including lines on fall imagery and playful musings. Anecdotes recount a captain's sleep habit and a Detroit campus scam, plus light poems and a tale of a Lisbon Scotland suitor and a judge's son learning navigation.
The article explains citizenship by birth and parentage, noting that a child born abroad to a native mother and an American father who intends to remain but is not naturalized remains American. It also states that a child born in the United States to nonresident parents is prima facie a citizen, and discusses elections of citizenship for those born abroad. It concludes with a note that a court without a clerk or recording officer is not a court entitled to naturalize.
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