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New England · Weddings

Weddings, 1897

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Ladies' Column. Wedding Cake

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 28 May 1897 · page 1

Wedding cake was aa institution among the ancients as with us, but the cake was a plain one, and was broken above the head of the bride as she wont into her new home…

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A Thief at a Wedding

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 8 June 1897 · page 2

SOME years ago there was reported from San Francisco a theft of wedding presents, where a woman was the thief, but who, through absolute rashness, failed in her…

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A Danish Peasant Wedding

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 11 June 1897 · page 6

THE tables were arranged after the fashion of ancient banquet tables, forming an open square, the bridal couple taking their places at the…

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An Indian Wedding

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 2 July 1897 · page 6

A LADY attached to a Mission Station in India sends the following account of a native wedding:—"For a month previous to the…

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Deserted on Her Wedding Day

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 2 July 1897 · page 4

THE case of Maud Era Simpson and Harry Simpson, a petition for a divorce on the ground of desertion, was before Mr. Justice G. B. Simpson again on Tuesday…

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Peculiar Dilemma at a Wedding

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 20 July 1897 · page 3

A HALF-FINISHED wedding is rather a novelty, but a spectacle of that kind was witnessed recently at the village church of Toddington, in…

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Deaf and Dumb Wedding

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 10 August 1897 · page 4

A SOMEWHAT remarkable wedding has been celebrated at Langley, near Slough. The bride and bridegroom, the best man, and one of the it bridesmaids were all deaf and dumb. The…

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Sketcher. Evolution of the Wedding-cake

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 13 August 1897 · page 1

When In ancient and imperial Rome a maiden was wedded according to 'confarreatio,' she always carried three ears of wheat in her hand, while over her head was…

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His Golden Wedding

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 October 1897 · page 4

' OF course every man who has any appreciation of woman thinks that he has the best wife in the world,' said an elderly member of the Curbstone Club the other night ; ' but I will…

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Wedding Ring Lore

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 8 October 1897 · page 3

MOST of our readers will be interested to know the origin of the unwritten law which decrees that the wedding ring shall be placed on the third finger of the left…

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Wedding Superstitions

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 19 October 1897 · page 2

THE bride who finds a spider on her wedding dress may consider herself blessed. No bride if she would have good luck, should bake her own wedding cake. To do…

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Wedding Gifts

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 22 October 1897 · page 2

SOME people think it very mean to give a thought to what they will receive in the way of wedding gifts; but with young folks not too heavily blessed with the good…

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The Ladies' Column. Wedding Fashion

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 22 October 1897 · page 2

ALTHOUGH the past season has not been very remarkable from a matrimonial point of view, it has been marked by one or two decided changes in wedding fashions…

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A Motor car Wedding in Kent

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 26 October 1897 · page 4

AFTER the bicycle and the balloon, the motorcar A few days ago, a novel wedding procession enlivened the Kentish village of East Peckham. The bridegroom is connected with…

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A Silent Wedding Party

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 12 November 1897 · page 6

At Yarmouth Primitive Methodist temple a novel wedding had taken place, the Rev. W. A. Hammond uniting in the holy bonds of matrimony a pair of deaf mutes. The…

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Romantic Wedding

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 30 November 1897 · page 3

A ROMANTIC sequel to a daring escape from Carlisle Gaol has just transpired. In December last a prisoner named William Almond…

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Whims That Haye Postponed Weddings

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 14 December 1897 · page 3

HUMAN caprice is often both amusing and distressing, and its relation to matrimony is probably answerable for more than half the comedy…

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Remarkable Weddings

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 December 1897 · page 3

MR. GEORGE Harding, an ardent widower on whose head 105 winters sat lightly, took unto himself his fourth wife. Two years later, at…

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