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Murray · Weddings

Weddings, 1893

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Hints for Weddings

Riverina Recorder · Wednesday 18 January 1893 · page 2

The bride and bridesmaids' bouquet are still presented to them by the bridegroom, and arrive at their destination on the wadding morning…

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A Clover Wedding

The Hay Standard and Advertiser for Balranald, Wentworth, Maude... · Wednesday 1 February 1893 · page 1

All the decorations were in clover blossoms, and though there were no bridesmaids, a tiny tot acted as maid of honor. Her quaint Gretchen gown was sprinkled…

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Dowsell's Wedding

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 10 February 1893 · page 1

Early in the last century the following circular, which is probably the queerest marriage announce [?], was [?] per dozen [?]…

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Novel Wedding Present

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 24 February 1893 · page 13

One of the most novel wedding presents (and to know of anything that is not painfully hackneyed is a positive boon now-a-days) is a case of jewel-headed pins. I do not think…

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A Pantomime Beauty's Wedding

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 14 March 1893 · page 4

The application of the adage, "Marry in haste and repent at leisure," seems likely to be harshly enforced upon an unfortunate young…

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A Remarkable Wedding

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 17 March 1893 · page 4

A London paper gives an extended account of a wedding in which there will be considerable Victorian interest, inasmuch as the bride was until lately…

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A Wedding Present

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 17 March 1893 · page 13

Perhaps the biggest and most costly wedding present ever given is now is the course of manufacture. It takes the torn of a massive silver table service ornamented with gold, and…

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Some Wedding Experiences

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 April 1893 · page 9

The Baptist Union Magazine has an amusing paper, “ My Wedding Ceremony Experiences,” by V.D.M, who tells the following stories:—…

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The King of Italy’s Silver Wedding. Departure of the German Emperor for Rome. London, April 19

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 21 April 1893 · page 21

The Emperor William of Germany and the Empress Victoria left yesterday for Rome, on their visit to the King and Queen of Italy, who will celebrate their silver…

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Norwegians at a Wedding Feast

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 28 April 1893 · page 1

BJORNSON has what Ibsen wants—afflatus, Whatever he writes stirs his countrymen He is a single-minded person, and, Christianis being a dull place, is in a way a godsend…

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Some Wedding Freaks

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 28 April 1893 · page 1

NEWS has roached this country from America of one of the oddest marriage frenk[?] on record. The chief actors hardly approach matrimony in a sprightly spirit. Perhaps…

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The King of Italy’s Silver Wedding Magnificent Tourney in Rome, London, April 26

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 28 April 1893 · page 21

The festivities in connection with the celebration of the silver wedding of the King and Queen of Italy were continued yesterday in Rome. A magnificent tourney…

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Weddings

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 16 June 1893 · page 2

DURING the last week two very serious desertions from the ranks of the Corowa bachelors have occurred. On Wednesday morning a private ceremony took place at…

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The Forthcoming Royal Wedding. London, June 13

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 16 June 1893 · page 22

In connection with the marriage of H.R.H. the Duke of York and Princess May of Teck, which is to take place on July 6, places in the wedding procession have been assigned to the…

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The Royal Wedding. Great Preparations in London. Brilliant Performance at Covent Garden. London, July 5

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 7 July 1893 · page 24

Great preparations have been made in London in view of the marriage of H.R.H. the Duke of York and Princess May of Teck, which is to take place to-morrow,…

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A Wedding

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 July 1893 · page 37

A very interesting ceremony took place a St. Ignatius’ Church, Richmond (Victoria), on the 22nd Jane, the occasion being the marriage of the only daughter of Mr. Edward…

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The Royal Wedding. a Brilliant Ceremony. Enormous Crowds in London. London, July 6

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 14 July 1893 · page 24

At the wedding of H R H the Duke of York and the Princess May of Teck, which took place to-day at tho Chapel Royal, St. James’s Palace, the ceremony was performed…

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Ladies' column. Favours at Weddings

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 4 August 1893 · page 5

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 Wedding

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 11 August 1893 · page 29

The Numurkah Standard says : — “A wedding took place in Naringoningslook on Wednesday, when Miss A. Gilbert was married to Mr. James Searle, both of…

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A Strange Wedding and Divorce

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 25 August 1893 · page 4

The petitioner in the case of Newton v. Newton, heard in the Divorce Court, Sydney, last week, was the husband George henry Newton, apparently…

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