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Show Two Women Naturalized. At Worcester, Mass., April 2, for the rsi time in the history of the centra) district court, two women appeared among the applicants for naturalization papers. They were bright, intelligent, womanly young wcrnen, sisters, Joanna and Nellie Donahue. After witnesses had testified the applicants were duly 6W0rn by Clerk Thayer, forswearing all illegiance to her majesty Queen Victoria, Vic-toria, ruler of the United Kingdcix of Great Britain and Ireland. The women took th6 oath with an air of being thoroughly thor-oughly impressed with the responsibility responsibil-ity of the step they were taking, and then, with their witnesses, stepped up to the desk of Clerk Perry and affixed their signatures to the necessary documents, docu-ments, after which they left the courtroom court-room secure in the consciousness thai they possessed all the rights at pren granted to women in Massachusetts. |
