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Weddings, 1911

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Wedding Peals

Globe · Wednesday 12 July 1911 · page 11

Bridge parties are the fashionable mode of winding up wedding festivities in England. says a London paper. Champagne at £5 a dozen is the only wine…

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Lengthy Wedding Breakfast

Globe · Wednesday 12 July 1911 · page 5

The menu of a wedding feast in a small Hungarian village is reported from Vienna. The wedding rejoicings started on Monday afternoon and lasted until Thursday night. There were…

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Wedding Bells

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 13 July 1911 · page 30

A very pretty wedding was celebrated at St. Mary's Cathedral, Armidale, on "Wednesday morning, 28th June, when Miss Kathleen Callaghan (eldest daughter of Mr. and…

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Society Wedding. Osborne-Willis

The Sun · Thursday 13 July 1911 · page 12

At st, John's Church Darlinghurst yesterday in spite of the rain one of the smartest weddings seen in Sydney for some time took place. The church was beautifully…

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Wedding Bells. Mowbray—coller

The Methodist · Saturday 15 July 1911 · page 8

At the Methodist Church, Cronulla, on Wednesday evening, June 28th, Mr. Albert Mowbray (son of the Rev. R. Mowbray) was married to Miss T. M…

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Weddings

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 July 1911 · page 19

OSBORNE.--WILLIS.--On July.12, at St.-John's Church, Darlinghurst, Oliver Throsby, fourth sou of Mr. Ben M. Osborne of Hopewood Bowral was married to Valerie younger…

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Truth · Sunday 16 July 1911 · page 6

The sensation of the week was the arrival of "paper-bag cookery." It arrived at an opportune time, when half of the community was subsisting on sniffs of…

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Weddings

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 19 July 1911 · page 13

BROADHEAD -- COOMBS.--At St. Saviour's Cathedral, Goulburn, on July 15, David Ralph, son of the late Mr. John Marsh Broadhcad ad, of Inverary Park, Bungonia, was married to Annic…

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Country Weddings

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 19 July 1911 · page 44

Anderson -- Keough. -- On July 5, at St. Mary's, Crookwell, the Rev. Father M'Quirk officiated at the wedding of Miss Anne Jane Keough, eldest daughter of Mr. James Keough, of…

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Wedding Rings

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 19 July 1911 · page 42

There is always an element of romance about a ring, ever since the fatal ring Queen Elizabeth gave the luckless Earl of Essex. The interest culminates in that plain gold…

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Fashion Fancies. Their Wedding-veils

Globe · Wednesday 19 July 1911 · page 11

Possibly no custom is so universal as the wearing of the wedding-veil. Both among the nations of the East and of the West this practice has existed so long that its origin has been…

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In Family Council Notes and Notions. Strange History of the Wedding-ring

Globe · Wednesday 19 July 1911 · page 11

There are plenty of theories about the origin of the wedding-ring. An authority now gives us one that is little known. Before the time of mints and coinage, the gold money in Egypt…

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A Coonamble Wedding. Lloyd—Sheridan

The Catholic Press · Thursday 20 July 1911 · page 30

A pretty wedding was celebrated at the Catholic Church, Coonamble, on July 3, when Miss Mary Sheridan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. Sheridan, of Coonamble, was…

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A Balmain East Wedding

The Catholic Press · Thursday 20 July 1911 · page 19

The marriage of Mr. E. S. Casey, youngest son of Captain Casey, of Woollahra, and Grace Ellon, third eldest daughter of Felix and Jane Carberry, of Riley's Hill, Lismore,…

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A Forest Lodge Wedding

The Catholic Press · Thursday 20 July 1911 · page 27

Recently at St. James' Church, Forest Lodge, Rublna May, third eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Leffter, of Forest Lodge, was married to Arthur Thomas, of…

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Lithgow Wedding. Palmer-murphy

The Sun · Thursday 20 July 1911 · page 10

At the Church of England, Lithgow, a wedding was celebrated on July 12, when Miss Emily Murphy (youngest daughter of the late James Murphy, of Darlington, Sydney)…

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A Hornsby Wedding

The Sun · Friday 21 July 1911 · page 4

St. Peter's Church, Hornsby, was the scene of a pretty wedding on Wednesday, when Miss Olive Oliver, only daughter of Mr. J. Oliver, of Waltara, was married to…

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Mountain Wedding. Ceremony by Moonlight on a Hill-top

The World's News · Saturday 22 July 1911 · page 2

Miss Bra Hunter, a New York heiress, and Iter fiance, Mr. Baylies Walker, a young engineer, trarfclled 2000 miles to California to be married by moonjight on the lonely hill-top…

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Weddings

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 22 July 1911 · page 19

CROTHERS--GISSING.--A wedding was solemnised on June 14. at St. John's Chapel, University, by Rev. Monsignor O'Brien, the bride being Eileen, only daughter of Mr. George…

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Tragic Honeymoon. Bridegroom Spends His Wedding Night in Police Cell. London, June 8

Sunday Times · Sunday 23 July 1911 · page 22

Fearful of being left behind, a newly-married man attempted to enter a railway carriage in which was his bride while the train was moving ; a ticket-collector endeavored to stop…

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