STRANGE WEDDING
SIT-DOWN STRIKER'S BRIDE FENCE BETWEEN COUPLE (Received January 15, 5.20 p.m.) PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 14 An iron fence separated William McGuire, a sit-down striker at the plant of the Storage Battery Company, and his fiance Theresa Grike, but they were married holding hands through the fence. Twelve hundred strikers inside the plant and 2000 friends and relatives outside watched the ceremony and cheered. The strikers' band of 12 instrumentalists played the "Wedding March" from Lohengrin, slightly off the key, and loud-speakers at the strikers' headquarters near by blared Sousa's "Bride Elect March." After the ceremony the b-ide returned to her home but the bridegroom was bustled into the courtyard of one of the buildings where his fellow-strikers serenaded him, singing "Oh, Promise Me" and "Pennies from Heaven."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22628, 16 January 1937, Page 11
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128STRANGE WEDDING New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22628, 16 January 1937, Page 11
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