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Hunter Valley · Weddings

Weddings, 1901

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About Wedding Rings

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 13 July 1901 · page 5
Also in The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette

English women did not always wear a plain gold circlet for a wedding-ring. At one time tho custom was for the ring to coat as much as the bridegroom could afford to pay…

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Late News by Cable. London, July 10. Society Wedding

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 July 1901 · page 3

The oldest son of the Right Hon. Sir James Fer-gusson, K.C.M.G., formerly Governor of South Australia and of New Zealand, has married the second daughter of the Earl of Glasgow…

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Wedding

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 24 July 1901 · page 3

A PRETTY wedding was celebrated in the Hamilton R.C. Church on Wednesday afternoon last, when Mr. Charles Stewart, son of Mr. T. Stewart, of Muswellbrook, was united…

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Wedding Bells. a Complaint. (To the Editor of the Singleton Argus )

Singleton Argus · Saturday 10 August 1901 · page 3

SIR,—Please permit me to protest against the ringing of wedding bells at All Saints' Church on Thursday night at 10.30 p.m., I think this ought…

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Dorothy's Wedding Day Chapter I.

Singleton Argus · Saturday 10 August 1901 · page 8

SIR DOUDLAS ASHTON sat in his easy chair, thinking. He was a thin, wiry old man, with keen grey eyes and white hair, and a white moustache…

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Wedding Bells

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 12 August 1901 · page 2

A quick but pretty wedding took place on wednesday morning last at St. John's Cathedral, West Maitland, when William, eldest son of Mr. W. Lowery, of Merpeth, was married to Annie, only…

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Dorothy's Wedding Day Chapter Ii

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 13 August 1901 · page 4

The cold February wind whistled round the turrets of Ashton Towers as Sir Douglas sat in that easy chair, thinking. It was an intrusive and…

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Dorothy's Wedding Day Chapter II.—(Continued)

Singleton Argus · Thursday 15 August 1901 · page 4

The last remark was called forth by the sharp repetition of her name twice by the baronet; not (to her astonishment) in his usually angry tone, but…

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Wedding Bells

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 16 August 1901 · page 4

A quiet but pretty wedding took place on Wednesday, the 14th instant, at the Primitive Methodist Church, Miller's Forest, when George Edmund, second son of Edmund Apps, of this district,…

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On Mark Twain's Wedding Day. His Surprise

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 17 August 1901 · page 1
Also in The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette

Mark Twain was married in 1870. In anticipation of his marriage the father of his bride, Mr. Jervia Langdon, of Elmira, New York, had, for a…

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Wedding Bells

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 August 1901 · page 5

A quiet but pretty wedding took placeon Wednesday morning, 7th inst., at St. John's Cathedral, West Maitland, when William, eldest son of Air. W. Lowry, of Morpeth, was married to Annie, only…

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Dorothy's Wedding Day Chapter Iii

Singleton Argus · Saturday 17 August 1901 · page 8

'I'll go to Helen Ponsford,' said Dorothy, wiping her swollen eyes, for she had been crying bitterly, I don't care if be finds that I am out. I…

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Wedding

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 23 August 1901 · page 2

A quiet but very pretty wedding toom place in the Fosterton Church on Wednesday morning. 14th last, when Miss Ethel Wade (eldest…

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A Dream-wife. and a Golden Wedding

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 24 August 1901 · page 5

A Philadelphia correspondent writes: Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Thompson, of Falls of Schuylkill, celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their wedding…

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Dorothy's Wedding Day Chapter IV.—(Continued.)

Singleton Argus · Saturday 24 August 1901 · page 4

I did, indeed," he replied ; and he turned to Helen, and then took her band, and she did not withdraw it;—not she. She let him hold that…

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A Spanish Wedding

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 31 August 1901 · page 4

There are no bridesmaids at a wedding in Spain, but a madrina (literally godmother) is always present with witnesses. There is no wedding-cake, though there…

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Dorothy's Wedding Day Chapter V.

Singleton Argus · Saturday 31 August 1901 · page 6

'Where's your glove? was Guy Ponsford's first greeting to his wife, as she returned from Ashton Towers. 'Down in the Mill Pond,' she…

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Dorothy's Wedding Day Chapter Vii

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 3 September 1901 · page 4

Again Helen Ponsford stood in the dreary library of Ashton Towers. Guy Ponsford was with her this time, and the old baronet wished him at Jericho…

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