July
23, 1914 – Domonico Popi, resident of Virginia’s Northside, was
covered with confusion today when he discovered upon his arrival at the office
of Deputy Clerk of the Court U. G. Holloway to take out a marriage license,
that he had forgotten the last name of his prospective bride.
“I want to marry Mary,” he told the marriage license clerk.
“We shall be very happy to allow you to do so,” replied the clerk. “What is Mary’s last name?”
Popi shook his head, he suffered hot and cold flashes and his embarrassment was pitiful to behold, but his memory could not recall the answer.
“I will go and ask Mary,” he finally said. Then he returned and the necessary document to legally allow Maria Nocoine and Domonico Popi to enter the state of “connubial bliss,” were issued and Popi was dismissed with the paternal blessings of Clerk of Court Holloway, which, everybody who knows him will agree, will count for a lot.
The Virginia Enterprise; “He Wanted to Marry Mary”; July 24, 1914; p. 1.
“I want to marry Mary,” he told the marriage license clerk.
“We shall be very happy to allow you to do so,” replied the clerk. “What is Mary’s last name?”
Popi shook his head, he suffered hot and cold flashes and his embarrassment was pitiful to behold, but his memory could not recall the answer.
“I will go and ask Mary,” he finally said. Then he returned and the necessary document to legally allow Maria Nocoine and Domonico Popi to enter the state of “connubial bliss,” were issued and Popi was dismissed with the paternal blessings of Clerk of Court Holloway, which, everybody who knows him will agree, will count for a lot.
The Virginia Enterprise; “He Wanted to Marry Mary”; July 24, 1914; p. 1.
Photo taken by Pamela J. Erickson. Released
into the public domain Nov. 11, 2012,
as long as acknowledgement included.
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