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Wedding Fees

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Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
August
Year
1893
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

The Trenton True American has been talking with some New Jersey dominies .about wedding fees. One rej ceived for snch a service in a monogramed envclopo a bridge toll ticket of the value of two cents. Another got something neatly wrapped in paper. He toóle it to a grocer, told him that it was a wedding1 fee, that he had not opencd it and did not know what it was, but would give it to him, "sight unseen," for a watermelon. The grocer agreed, the dominie seized his melon and the groeer found in the paper a silver three-cent piece. One groom, as he passed out with his bride, threw into tha work-basket au old pair of gloves, saying to the minister's wifo that she might have them. The minister's wiie looked at them with scorn and contempt. A few days later, however, vvishing to do some gardening, she thought the dospised old gloves might be useful after all. She attempted to put t):em on and found a dilliculty. In every one of the üngers there was a five-do'.iar bill

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Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Courier