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Southern Highlands · Weddings

Weddings, 1885

6 stories in Southern Highlands's papers

Select Poetry. The Silver Wedding

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 4 February 1885 · page 2

COME, wife, sit here, and we'll rest awhile Till the merry dance is o'er; Our silver wedding has made me feel As if youth were mine once more…

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Two Sudden Deaths at a Wedding

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 18 April 1885 · page 4

ON Saturday night, February 14th, says tho Weekly Despatch a large party of guests assembled at the residence of a farmer living near Clonmel to celebrate the marriage…

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A Princely Wedding

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 13 June 1885 · page 2

WESTMINSTER Abbey was the scene of a brilliant assemblage on Thursday afternoon, March 19. Diplomatists, statesmen, the representatives of wealth, and the leaders of…

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A Persian Wedding

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 11 July 1885 · page 2

AT important Persian weddings there are two bands of musicians, Mussulmans and Jows, the latter a ragged and motley crew but more skilful than their better-clad…

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Double Wedding

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 24 October 1885 · page 2

THE adjacent neighbourhood of Upper Mittagong was in quite a state of flutter and excitoment on Wednesday last. The customary quietness and serenity of the place…

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The Late Double Wedding

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 31 October 1885 · page 2

"Juliet," in her interesting weekly letter in last Wednesday's Mittagong Mail says:—Talking of weddings reminds me of two I witnessed the other day in a little chuch in the district. Though the…

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