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Mid North Coast · Weddings

Weddings, 1893

8 stories in Mid North Coast's papers

Norwegians at a Wedding Feast

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 14 June 1893 · page 2

BJORNSON has what Ibsen wants--afflatus. Whatever he writes stirs his countrymen He is a single-minded person, and, Christ[?]anis[?] being a dull place, is in a way a godsend…

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Some Wedding Freaks

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 14 June 1893 · page 2

NEWS has reached this country from America of one of the oddest marriage freaks on record. The chief actors hardly approach matrimony in a sprightly spirit. Perhaps…

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Cooking Recipes. Tin-wedding Cake

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 28 June 1893 · page 7

Rub one cup of butter and three of sugar to a cream; add one cup of milk, four of flour, five eggs, one teaspoonful of cream tartar, half teaspoonful of soda, one-fourth pound of…

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Wedding Bells

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 12 July 1893 · page 6

COULD Kempsey boast a peal of bells they would certainly have rung out merrily on Wednesday morning last, on the occasion of the marriage of…

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A Wedding Story. An Englishman Who Had Not Much Faith in St. Paul's Exhortation

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 2 August 1893 · page 2

The homily with which our marriage service closes lacks intrinsic cheerfulness and its peculiar charms, actual or suggestive, are seldom appreciated, by the more youthful…

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Ladies Column. Favours at Weddings

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 30 August 1893 · page 2

The giving of gloves at weddings is a custom of remote antiquity. In Ben Jonson's play of the "Silent Woman," Lady Haughty says to Morose --" We see no ensigns…

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A Parisian Wedding Custom

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 13 December 1893 · page 7

Parisian brides and bridesmaids do not take with them to church the lovely bunch of white flowers which tradition requires the bridegroom and his beat man to supply; but it…

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A Wyoming Wedding

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 27 December 1893 · page 2

Jim Mason dismounted at Burton's ranch, turned his pony into the corral, and strode heavily into the bunk-room. One of the riders of Burton's outfit said…

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