MARRIAGE BY WIRELESS.
LONDON. July 6.—With the bride at the church and the bridegroom m a battleship, wh-rt is believed to be the first marriag© by wireless ia reported by the New York World. The bridegroom, Mr. John R. Wajceman, is a* sailor «oh board the U.S.S. now m niid-Pacifjc, and the bride is Miss Mabel Ebert. of Detroit. About 1000 miles off the 'Californian coast, tlie ship's chaplain read the ritual received by the ship's wireless, while Miss Ebei't and her friends Wero assembled m the First Presbyterian Church, Detroit. Here the Rev. C. E. Rdir telephoned the bride's answers to a telegraph office, to le transmitted to tha Great Lakes Naval training stat'on and thence flashed on to the Birmingham hv wireless.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15303, 26 August 1920, Page 6
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124MARRIAGE BY WIRELESS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15303, 26 August 1920, Page 6
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