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From our archives, 100 years ago

A St. Paul couple decided to get married in an unusual spot – deep in the tunnels of North Idaho’s Chicago mine, near Murray, Idaho.

The wedding party proceeded into the main tunnel of the mine and the couple “plighted their troth” by the light of “dozens of flickering candles.”

The Spokesman-Review neglected to explain why the Minnesota couple chose this bizarre spot for a wedding, except to say that it was “the choice of the groom.”

The miners must have been baffled by this choice as well.

“The witnesses were a group of sturdy, begrimed miners, their chapel the damp, rocky walls of the tunnel,” said the paper.

They emerged to the sound of “dynamite bombs fired by mountain admirers.”

From the medical beat: A “pretty, fashionably dressed” girl named Hypatia Sherlock, 17, was discovered “in a stupor,” draped over a bank railing at Howard and Riverside.

Police discovered she was unable to walk or talk. She rallied at the hospital and wasn’t sure whether her stupor had been caused by a headache she had suffered earlier that day or some “headache pills” she had taken.

She had no idea how she ended up at that corner. She was supposed to be at the library.