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Weddings, 1908

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The Home Circle Vanderbilt Wedding Rehearsed

Sunday Times · Sunday 8 March 1908 · page 9

The wedding of Miss Gladys Vanderbilt to Count Szechenyi, which took place recently, was previously rehearsed at the Vanderbilt mansion, in the presence of…

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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 March 1908 · page 3

BRIERLY—GELLING.--A wedding was celebrated in Temora on Wednesday last, when Mr. Lionel C. Brierly, Sydney, was married to Addle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. Gelling, of…

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Student Shoots Himself Suicided on His Wedding Day

The Australian Star · Wednesday 11 March 1908 · page 1

Mr. Geoffrey Neville, of Broadhurst, Mansions, Hampstead, a medical student of Middlesex Hospital, died on January 30 4n St. Mary's Hospital as tho result of a bullet…

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The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 11 March 1908 · page 6

HOSFORD--ROUTLEY--A quiet wedding took place at St. Paul's Anglican Church, Harris Park, on 26th ult., between Thomas W., elder son of Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Hosford, of…

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The Vanderbilt Bride. Great Catholic Wedding. the Pope's Blessing. New York, January 28

The Catholic Press · Thursday 12 March 1908 · page 17

Last afternoon, in the house of the bride's mother in New York, and in the presence of 350 guests, Miss Gladys Vanderbilt, the reputed possessor of a dowry of…

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The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 12 March 1908 · page 5

HARRIS--JOHNSTON.--On Wednesday last Mr. Walter Harris, of Coolalie railway station, near Yass, was married to Maud, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Johnston, of the Railway…

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The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 March 1908 · page 4

NASH. -- HOLGATE. -- At the Methodist Church, Dalten, on Wednesday, 4th inst., Mr. Joseph H. L. Nash was married to Eva M., youngest daughter of Mr. James Holgate, of Rockstone Vale…

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Suicided on His Wedding Day

The Arrow · Saturday 14 March 1908 · page 8

REMARKABLE letters were read at the inquest held at paddington (London) recently on Geoffrey Owen Neville, a young medical student, who shot…

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Wedding-day Elopement. Medical Student Disappears with a Bride

The World's News · Saturday 14 March 1908 · page 9

A romantic wedding-day elopement is reported from Flume, Austria. Rosa Scheppel, a pretty girl of 19, who had been secretly engaged to her former playmate,…

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The Vanderbilt Wedding. Regal Splendors. Gifts Worth £250,000

The World's News · Saturday 14 March 1908 · page 15

AS briefly indicated by cable at the time, Miss Gladys Vanderbllt, possessor in her own right of £2,400,000, duly became the wife of Count Laszlo Jeno Maria…

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The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 14 March 1908 · page 15

SHEARSBY--CHAMBERS.--At the Wargiela Church on Tuesday last, by Rev. H. E. Lewin, C.E. rector of Yass, Ethel Grace, youngest daughter of Mrs. Chambers, of Oak Range, Yass,…

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Wedding Bells

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 14 March 1908 · page 4

On the 3rd March, at St.Joachim's R.C. Church, Rockwood, by the Rev. Father P. Klein, Mr. Frederick David Andrews of Clyde, was married to Miss…

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The "Orchid" Wedding. Vanderbilt Heiress and Her Gorgeous Nuptials

Sunday Times · Sunday 15 March 1908 · page 10

The marriage of Miss Gladys Vanderbilt and Count Ladislaus Szecheny to-morrow will be the greatest social event of the year in New York, cabled the New York…

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An Interrupted Wedding. Dramatic Arrival of Veiled Woman. Bridegroom Departs, Philadelphia. February 5

Sunday Times · Sunday 15 March 1908 · page 12

In front of the residence of Mrs. Pauline B. Soden. No. 1624 South Second-street, stood carriages waiting to convey a bridal party to St. John's Episcopal Church…

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A £200,000 Wedding

The Sunday Sun · Sunday 15 March 1908 · page 6

To find a parallel to the splendours and costliness of the Vanderbilt wedding we must go back a few years to the nuptials of Miss Louisa Pierpont Morgan, daughter of the…

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The Daily Telegraph · Monday 16 March 1908 · page 3

GRAY--MURAS.--On the 4th inst., at the Anglican Church, Eastwood, a wedding was celebrated between Samuel Eustace William, third son of Mr. J. S. Gray, of "Araluen,"…

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Rice at Weddings

Evening News · Tuesday 17 March 1908 · page 4

Archdeacon Moxon, of Grafton, recently took occasion to condemn the practice of throwing rice at weddings, and a great many people will be Inclined to agree with him, in fact he would…

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Rice-throwing at Weddings. Clergyman's Condemnation. Grafton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 March 1908 · page 9

Archdeacon Moxon, from the pulpit, condemned the practice of rice-throwing at marriages. He said that it was really a Hindoo ceremony, and had neither reason,…

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The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 March 1908 · page 4

STAPLETON-MUNDAY--A quiet Wedding took place at, Bonshaw on March 4 between Mr. John, James Stapleton and Miss Ethel Monday. The bride, who was attired in a cream silk…

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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 18 March 1908 · page 751

The marriage of Mr. Arthur Pratt, of Strathleven, Moore Park-road, Sydney, with Miss Jane Annie Talbot, daughter of Mr, Alfred Talbot, of Ellen's Villa, Illawarra-road,…

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