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Riverina · Weddings

Weddings, 1874

4 stories in Riverina's papers

Wedding Extra Vagances. (From the Queen.)

Wagga Wagga Advertiser and Riverine Reporter · Wednesday 7 January 1874 · page 4

The real reason for the female infanticide formerly so prevalent in India, and even yet not entirely suppressed, is said to be the immense expense attendant on the marriage,…

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Accident to a Wedding Party

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 10 January 1874 · page 4

The Rev. Henry Brown, a Staffordshire clergyman, was married a few days ago to the daughter of the Rev. E. T Codd, vicar of Tachbrook. As the bride and bridegroom…

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English and Continental Items. Nellir Grant's Wedding

The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Saturday 1 August 1874 · page 3

THE wedding between Mr. Sartoris and Nellies Grant came off in due course. The ceremony was conducted in the simplest fashion imaginable, and there was only one unpleasant remark which the most cynical of…

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French Weddings

Wagga Wagga Express and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser · Wednesday 14 October 1874 · page 5

ONE of the principal social duties of the Marshal President has been since Easter to act as witness at aristocratic weddings, and to propose brides' healths at nuptial…

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