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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Weddings

Weddings, 1886

5 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers

An Unfinished Wedding

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 4 March 1886 · page 4

WHY did Lord Verriner wander in strange and tropical climes, explore Japan and Timbuctoo, and attempt to cross the Himalayas? The noble…

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Throwing Rice at Weddings

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 10 July 1886 · page 2

The danger of the custom of throwing rice at weddings has just been exemplified. The vicar of St. James the Less, Bethnal Green, has for many years solemised the…

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Miscellaneous Extracts Remarkable Wedding Festivities

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 7 August 1886 · page 4

[?] GROCER, named Mariner, of [?]ake-road, Portsmouth, who ad recently retired and passed he business to his son, lost his…

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Wedding Party Poisoned

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 23 October 1886 · page 4

DECATUR, September 11.—About fifty people were mysteriously poisoned at a country wedding about five miles west of here, and all the…

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A Sallation Army Wedding

Queanbeyan Age · Thursday 4 November 1886 · page 4

NEARLY 4000 people assembled in the Congress Hall at Clapton on September 16, to witness the marriage of Colonel Ballington Booth,…

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