A HASTY PROPOSAL.
_ Mrs Edison, the wife of the well-known inventor, died a short time since in America, and the event has led to the story of her wooing and wedding being - wived with all its singular and romantic ?!#!!' e §' The deceased lady, whoso fflaijeii"'n,aia ! waFfi? %Mi(&\l «PP Mr EcHlb'uV'fe : araiUm lit hkfexiiarimenilay He was one day, it is related/ stahdjng behind the chair on which she'sat, punching holds in paper, when she said to • him that she'cOukj always tell instinctively if feW W' ] 'F ]l y l>w EdiMi |!orideVed an stvaiglitlf '.'looking >W : \ti< MB[M Without preface or WaW'o'f Words, .that if'shd'SvouWaccept 'him he 1 would marry h'er.' Tlie young persoii', rather takep aback, began saying tlmfsjjfe hay'ii'eyer. thoupf of A*\ ] Mit. M was interrupted future nusbaii|; fl°;> nokffi yemarKe'J W'¥ ?PH 1 18 sJie lip'inhn m}\m of, it, 'mtiM MMm, m I' a|| parties were agreed,, t!iffp*c.nnld. bo mar-ried in a week from that day, And so they wove, the union proving a aingu. larly happy one, it is said, notwithstanding Mr Edison's rather novel and hasty way of proposing.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1997, 22 May 1885, Page 2
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182A HASTY PROPOSAL. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1997, 22 May 1885, Page 2
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