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Show MARRIAGE LICENSE BY PHONE Permit to Wed Issued to Minnesota Man Over the Long-Distance Wire by Clerk. Minneapolis, Minn. It lacked only one hour until Dr. W. O. Fryberger and Miss Mary Hughes, both of Minneapolis, Min-neapolis, were to be wed at Miss Hughes' summer home, near Buffalo, Minn., when the clerk of the district court refused a license to Dr. Fryberger Fry-berger on the ground that the parties did not reside in the county. In that hour Dr. Fryberger called the clerk of the district court in Minneapolis, made an affidavit over the long-distance telephone and received re-ceived a permission to wed by the same wray, the clerk of the court at Buffalo taking the fee for the Hennepin Henne-pin county office. It is said to be the first case In Hennepin county of a license being isued over the telephone. |