MAN'S RECORD
TWO- SILVER WEDDINGS
Mr. James Labclcn, of Wyatt Park 'rouct, Stvcatham. Hill, S."WV, has celebrated his second silver wedding, says the "Daily Mail." '
lie married first in 1877, when ho was only 17, his wife dying in 1904. His sqcontl wedding took pluco in 190(5. "Some men may think marriage is ;i lottery," Mr. Labdon told a "Daily Mail" reporter, "but I think it is one of.tho finest institutions in tho world.
"I have had the two most wonderful wives in the world. My two silver weddings have been a great double blessing, and I would not like to say which has given: me tho greatest hap.piuess. ... ' '"flics longer I Jive the happier I seem to be, and I-am now, looking forward to establishing a real record by celebrating my golden .wedding. My advice to the young men of: to-day, who appear to bo frightened ot' getting married, is to take a chance. I do not know what I would have dono without either my; first or my t second wife.''
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 11, 13 July 1931, Page 9
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173MAN'S RECORD Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 11, 13 July 1931, Page 9
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