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New England · Weddings

Weddings, 1888

14 stories in New England's papers

Silver Wedding

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 6 January 1888 · page 4

The colonists in London propose to give the Prince of Wales a present to commemorate his silver wedding…

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A Salvation Army Wedding

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 24 January 1888 · page 3

AN interesting ceremony—though not the first of its kind in Ipswich —took place in the Salvation Army barracks on Tuesday evening last…

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A Burketown Wedding

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 7 February 1888 · page 3

THE NORMANTON CHRONICLE writes: —The ceremony of making Mr. Lawson, the Police Magistrate, and Miss Cripps one, was performed by…

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Recent Fashionable Weddings

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 7 February 1888 · page 3

SEVERAL pretty weddings have during the spring taken place in London and other parts. There have been (says the QUEEN) snowdrop, violet, and daffodil weddings,…

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Serial Story. Goths, Huns, and Vandals. Chapter Xx. the Wedding

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 7 February 1888 · page 1

CONSTANCE BURROWES found the work of captivating Andrew Gascoigne very easy. That worthy gentleman had arrived at a time of life, when the passions once aroused, they…

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An Aboriginal Wedding

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 10 February 1888 · page 8

On the 6th instant, at the Court-house, Rockhampton, Barney, second son of Barney Hill, Esq., of Bungle Valley, to Jenny Mary, of Balboomba. The…

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Silver Wedding

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 9 March 1888 · page 8

The Queen will dine with the Prince and Princess of Wales on Saturday, on the occasion of the celebration of their silver wedding…

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The Silver Wedding

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 March 1888 · page 5

Over £500 has been collected for a silver wedding gift to the Prince and Princess of Wales. AUCKLAND, Monday…

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The Ladies' Column. Some French Wedding Customs

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 15 May 1888 · page 2

IN France, a girl who remains single up to the age of 25 years may be looked upon almost as an anomaly; even the least attractive regard their establishment in life,…

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Some of the Silver Wedding Presents

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 May 1888 · page 3

HER Majesty the Queen's remembrance of her royal son's wedding day was a costly and massive dragon-handled cup. One of the principal gifts to the Princess on the occasion of the silver…

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Wedding-Rings

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 June 1888 · page 2

When during the late war a story was told of a contractor's wife having been seen with a big diamond ring upon her thumb, it was thought to be a malicious invention of the…

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Te Ladies' Column. Wedding Superstitions

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 26 October 1888 · page 7

The bride moat keep the pins which fastened her wedding dress. "Twice a bridesmaid, never a bride," is a proverb that needs no comment…

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Preparing for a Wedding

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 7 December 1888 · page 3

The London STANDARD reports that on October 17, at the Mansion House, Bertha Brown, 23, a well-dressed woman, described as a dressmaker, was charged…

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A Fashionable Victorian Wedding

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 11 December 1888 · page 3

ON Wednesday, the 21st of November, Christ Church, South Yarra, was the scene of as pretty a wedding ae has taken place there for many a long day. The weather was lovely, the sun…

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