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Newspaper
Cobram Courier
Location
Cobram, Victoria, Australia
Date
Dec 20, 1923
Page
3
A lighthearted column explores unusual wedding locations such as a chimney top a cemetery roller-skates and a rowboat with humorous asides about marrying in these odd spots and the idea of marrying for fun versus tradition.
A chaotic series of wedding scenes unfolds across cities and towns as couples wed in boats on rivers and ferries high above chimneys, during quarantines, in funeral parlors, on streetcars, and at train stations. Clergy, notaries, and brides faced delays, plans shifted, and urgency defined these mobile ceremonies.
A clerks recounts a chaotic marriage in Troy Illinois where a couple elopes after license then wed beside a funeral. The justice marries them with witnesses as a nervous militia of relatives and a gun-toting father disrupts the ceremony yet the couple persist and the marriage proceeds. The piece frames life as a rushed, noisy frontier tableau with memories of a past Dallas groom and Indianapolis ceremony.
An inebriated crowd and a boastful drinker clash in a chaotic scene as a Christmas dinner dispute erupts aboard a tram. A nervous bystander tries to calm tensions while bystanders mock the exchange, and a hubbub of insults ends with a wary truce.
The doctor says the system is run down and urges rest while the patient hints at winding up business and ceasing work. This exchange captures fatigue and a potential end to activity.
A garbled OCR fragment reports a Christmas scene with a person seen prostrating and a bird and pie mentioned. It notes the subject has been seen multiple times and suggests a festive mishap or prank observed by nearby witnesses.
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