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Murray · Weddings

Weddings, 1888

19 stories in Murray's papers

Humor. Lore's Weddings

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 22 February 1888 · page 1

Quoth Love, as he sharpened his darts one day. In an indolent sort of style: "I have too long followed the beaten way,…

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Humor. Love's Weddings

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 24 February 1888 · page 2

Quoth Love, as he sharpened his darts one day, In an indolent sort of style: "I have too long followed the beaten way,…

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humor. Love's Weddings

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 16 March 1888 · page 2

Quoth Love, as he sharpened his darts one day. In an indolent sort of style:"I have too long followed the beaten way,…

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Dress Worn at Weddings

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 18 May 1888 · page 12

In fashionable London there has been a great change lately, both in etiquette and in the dress worn at weddings. In former years the service was obliged to be concluded before…

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A Great Salvation Army Wedding

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 1 June 1888 · page 10

At the Congress Hall, Clapton, on April 10, the marriage of Miss Emma M. Booth, the second daughter of General Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army, and…

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Ladies Column. Favours at Weddings

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 8 June 1888 · 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 Lapp Wedding

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 8 June 1888 · page 2

Down the room was a long table, covered with coarse cloth, perhaps, if for grand folks, but much more likely in its native bareness. Upon the arrival of the wedding party the…

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A Lapp Wedding

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 29 June 1888 · page 2

Down the room was a long table, covered with coarse cloth, perhaps, if for grand folks, but much more likely in its native bareness. Upon the arrival of the wedding party the…

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Ladies' Column. Favours at Weddings

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 29 June 1888 · page 2

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

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Mr. and Mrs Gladstone's Golden Wedding

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 27 July 1888 · page 2

London, Thursday.—Mr and Mrs Gladstone calebrated their golden wedding yesterday, and were recepients of various valuable presents…

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Wedding at Corowa

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 14 September 1888 · page 3

ON Tuesday at St. John's Church of England, Corowa, Mr. James Arthur Camplin of Mulwala, and formerly of Corowa, was married to Miss Jane Taylor, daughter of…

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Ladies Column. A Parisian Wedding Custom

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 19 October 1888 · page 1

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

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Ladies' Column. A Parisian Wedding Custom

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 24 October 1888 · page 2

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

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A Fashionable Wedding. London, October 24

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 2 November 1888 · page 18

The eldest son of Sir William Robinson, the Governor of South Australia, was married to. day to Miss Gertrude Hughes,…

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The Diamond Wedding

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 November 1888 · page 10

By the bed the old man, waiting, sat in vigil sad and tender, Where his aged wile lay dying; and the twilight shadows brown…

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A Danish Wedding

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 23 November 1888 · page 1

The number of invitations vary according to the mentis of the bride's parents ; but there are seldom less than fifty assembled, and often as many as one hundred and fifty…

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Ladies Column. A Plea for Simplicity in Fashionable Weddings. Refined Simplicity

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 28 November 1888 · page 2

Louder and louder grows the protest against ostentations and extravagant displays at weddings. Fashion has settled it [?] for all, let us hope, that the private…

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Ladies' Column. A Plea for Simplicity in fashionable Weddings. Refined Simplicity

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 30 November 1888 · page 1

Louder and louder grows the protest against ostentatious and extravagant displays at weddings. Fashion has settled it once for all, let us hope, that the private…

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The Wedding of Miss Essie Jenyns. Disgraceful Scene at the Cathedral

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 December 1888 · page 37

Miss Essie Jenyns, the popular actress, was married on Wednesday to Mr. John R. Wood, of Newcastle, at St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney. The event excited great interest, and…

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