Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1890 — Marriage by Phonograph. [ARTICLE]

Marriage by Phonograph.

Boston Record, A marriage by phonograph has taken place. A man waited upon 'the minister with a phonograph, The minister spoke into the apparatus the questions, and the bridegroom the responses of the marriage ceremony. The impression was then posted to the bride, some hundreds Of miles away, and she and the minister of her village went through the samo progress, the last minister pronouncirg the couple man and wife.