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Weddings, 1911

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Quaint Wedding Custom in the Harz Mountains

The World's News · Saturday 4 March 1911 · page 7

On their way from the church after the marriage ceremony, the newly-married couple hare to saw up, according to an old custom, a log on the sawing jack, which the bridegroom has to bring down from a chimney of the bride's house…

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Stop the Wedding Mother Denounces Her Son in Church

The World's News · Saturday 4 March 1911 · page 21

The story of the dramatic stoppage of a wedding ceremony iust as it was almost completed was told at the Sheffield Police Court recently, when a young man named Albert Butcher was…

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Weddings

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 March 1911 · page 19
Also in The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate

TURTON--NIVISON.--A pretty and picturesque wedding took place in St. Andrew's Church, Walcha, on Saturday last, the bridegroom being Norman W., son of Mr. E. J…

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Zena Dare's Wedding

Sunday Times · Sunday 5 March 1911 · page 20

On January 23 Miss Zena Dare and the Hon. Maurice Brett, second son of Lord Esher, were married. The ceremony took place at the Paddington superintendent…

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Deathbed Wedding. Bride on a Day

Evening News · Monday 6 March 1911 · page 10

A Mr. and Mrs. Br[?] of [?] England received news on January 13 from Canada of the tragic termination of a romance in with their daughter Lydia was a…

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Rainbow Wedding. 37 Brides Married at the Same Time

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 8 March 1911 · page 47

Thirty-seven very picturesque weddings were celebrated simultaneously one day last month in the old church of Plougastel, in Brittany, tany clothes—the husbands in purple jackets…

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Weddings

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 8 March 1911 · page 15

WHITE--DOUGLAS.--A wedding was solemaised at St. Luke's Church of England, Liverpool on February 22, when Alice May, third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Douglas, of…

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Country Weddings

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 8 March 1911 · page 40

Bice-- Lang.--A quiet wedding took place recently at "Monrita," the residence of Mr. H. Lang, Woodburn, the contracting parties being his eldest daughter, Miss J. S. Lang, and Mr…

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Wedding

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 8 March 1911 · page 2

A very nice wedding took place on Saturday, 4th Inst., when Mr. E. H. E. Crane, of Castle Hill, was united in the bonds of matrimony to Miss I. M. A. Langford…

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a Wedding Party Eaten

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 9 March 1911 · page 35

An extraordinary and unhappy story has been reported in Vienna, Austria, about the fate of a wedding party. It seems, according to the story published in the "Die Zeit,"…

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Unpleasant Scene at a Wedding. Crowd Deers and Laughs at Sir W. Abdy's Third Marriage

The Newsletter: an Australian Paper for Australian People · Saturday 11 March 1911 · page 8

An unphas[?] and most regrettable once (says a london paper of February 21) was witnessed at the marriage of Sa at the St. Pancras Registry Office to Mrs…

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Weddings

The St George Call · Saturday 11 March 1911 · page 3
Also in The Daily Telegraph

A wedding was celebrated at St. John's Church of England, Rockdale, on Wednesday, March 4, by the Rev. E. N. Burton, the contracting parties being…

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Weddings

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 15 March 1911 · page 12

CORBETT--SAUNDERS.--A quiet wedding was celebrated at St. Philip's, Church-hill, on March 7, when Archibald Angus, second son of Mr. and Mrs. John Corbett, of "Segenhoe…

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Country Weddings

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 15 March 1911 · page 44

Weekert-- Frankle.-- A wedding of great interest took place at the new Lutheran Church, Gidginbung (near Temora), on March 2. when Miss Cecelia Frankie. eldest daughter of…

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A Dress for a Wedding

The Land · Friday 17 March 1911 · page 14

A coat and skirt suit made for a guest at a recent important wedding in Melbourne, was shown me, and like the rest of the tailor-mades of…

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Weddings. Solomons—rapken

The Hebrew Standard of Australasia · Friday 17 March 1911 · page 7

The wedding of Miss Esther Rapken, only daughter of the late Simon Rapken, of Casterton, Victoria, and Mrs. J. Opit, Sydney, to Mr. Reuben Solomons, of Adelaide, son…

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A Tragic Story. Which May Terminate in a Wedding and a Happy Ending

The Arrow · Saturday 18 March 1911 · page 3

A MEMORABLE Judgment was given by Mr. Justice Bargrave Doane in the London Divorce Court last month in a remarkable divorce suit in which the…

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Decies-Gould Wedding. Army of Police Controls Crowd

The World's News · Saturday 18 March 1911 · page 17

FULL details by mail of the marriage of Lord Decies to Miss Helen Vivien Gould, daughter of George J…

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