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Hunter Valley · Weddings

Weddings, 1887

7 stories in Hunter Valley's papers

A Salvation Army Wedding

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 19 March 1887 · page 17

The marriage of Miss Catherine Booth, daughter of General Booth, and well-known as "La Mare chale," and Colonel Clibborn of the Salvation Army was solemnised at the Congress Hall,…

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Humor. The Wedding present the Bridal Pair

Singleton Argus · Saturday 21 May 1887 · page 2

"Just look at this beautiful present, my dear. And then read the name on the card-From Harry.' He gets but a th[?]…

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Chapter Ix. Gertrude's Wedding-ring

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 9 July 1887 · page 20

Mrs. Livingstone went to Long Branch also. She had bean very loth to give up Gertrude for the whole vacation, but remembering what she had once said about bor dislike for Livingstone Elms,…

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A Wedding Party Disturbed

The Scone Advocate · Friday 7 October 1887 · page 1

A wedding party which was revelling in a restaurant at the St. Maude, near Paris, had a terrible fright. The bride and bridegroom, tradespeople of the…

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Some Curious Wedding Rings

The Scone Advocate · Friday 4 November 1887 · page 2

In speaking of wedding rings, we learn (says the New York Jewellery News) that these important symbols have not always been manufactured from the precious metal…

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The Diamond Wedding Recalled

The Scone Advocate · Friday 18 November 1887 · page 3

THE departure of the Baroness Frances Amelia Burdett Oviedo won Glummer for Mexico to secure a divorce from her husband recalls the early history of California. The…

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The Wedding Trip. (American L'ancet.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 29 November 1887 · page 6

The French medical journals and some of the English have been lately calling attention to the evils of the wedding trip. There are few physicians who will not recall…

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