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Wedding Fees

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
September
Year
1893
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

The Trenton Truc American has been with some New Jersey dominios about wedding1 fees. One received for snch a service in a monogramed envelope a bridge toll ticket of the value of two cents. Anothcr got something neatly wrapped in paper. He took it to a grocer, told him that it was a wedding fee, that he had not opened it and did not know what it was, bxit would give it to him, "si;jht unseen," for a watermelon. The grocer agTeed, the dominie seized his melon and the grocer found in the ■ a süver tliree-cent piece. One groom, as he passed out with his bride, threw i:iti the work-basket an old pair of gfloves, saying to the minister's wifj that she might have them 'i'iie minister's wife looked ;. t them with scorn and contempt. A few 'ior, however, wiehing to do sorne g'ardenir.g, she thoujjht thi ! led old ploves might be usefu] aftor all. She ;::- tempted to put them on and found a difiiculty. In every one of the fingers there was a üve-doüar bill

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Old News
Ann Arbor Courier