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19 stories in New England's papers
IN the Croydon (Eng.) Borough Police Court lately Phoebe Smith, a well-dressed young woman, was summoned by Fred. Cook for having unlawfully detained…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The New Zealand "Times" says:--A most extraordinary and alarming case of arsenic poisoning is reported from Pahiatua, by which two deaths have already occurred and others…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →IT was the brightest day that ever anyone saw. My wedding day. The 1st of June, 1772. I never shall forget the day or the date…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A MARRIAGE took place at Atlanta, Georgia, the other day, in which the bridegroom, Hiram Lester, was said to be a centenarian, while the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →I wish a few heavy swells would set their faces against the hideous rice-souffle, de rigueur at the close of wedding-receptions. The custom of throwing rice at departing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MR. W[?]. Lidderdale, a gentleman wellknown in financial and commercial circles in London, and son of the Governor of the Bank of England, disappeared on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Bayanzi, who live along the Upper Congo, have a strange custom which makes life a burden to the married women. Brass rods are welded into great rings around the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A FATAILITY at a wedding party was the subject of enquiry at the Metropolitan Hospital on April 20. Thomas Newing, a lithographic…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →CHARLES Smith, an assistant guard on the London, Chatham, and Dover railway, died on April 13 in very tragic circumstances. He had been a widower for 11…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →There happened to be a large audience present, but the squire told them to stand up and then proceeded with the ceremony in this…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →GERMANY is the only conntry in which men now wear wedding rings. There, if not a general custom, it is at least common. The ring worn is of plain gold,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AT Westminister County Court, on June 2nd, counsel applied for the adjournment of a case set down for hearing that day, on the ground that an important and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →How many women who fondly love the golden symbol of their wedding vow know why they wear it on the third finger of the left hand? That particular digit was chosen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IF one had been asked a few years, or even a few months, ago what was the commonest form of wedding present, one would probably…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A BOLD Kentucky Colonel was the father of a lovely daughter, who loved a nice young man in all respects unobjectionable. All the girls and matrons of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →M. THIEL, a Brussels aeronaut, carried out a wish he had formed to make his weddingtrip in a balloon. Accordingly, on leaving the Town…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The fifth annivisrsary of a young couple's start in life together was prettily celebrated lately with a wooden wedding. Invitations were ssnt out written on small wooden…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE fifth anniversary of a young couple's start in life together was prettily celebrated lately with a i wooden wedding. Invitations were…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On the summit of a green knoll, in one of those beautifal valleys which open from the prairies—like inviting portals—into the dark recesses of…
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