I'm a simple emigrant and, so to speak, modern

When I read world classics, I wonder why people did things one way or another back then. For example, in Dreiser, people learned news about each other from newspapers. And I always thought, what's the point of printing in a newspaper that someone got married or went on a cruise? Moreover, these articles were not only about superstars, as they are now, but about ordinary mortals. And recently, a German girlfriend told me that she had received from her mother a photo from a newspaper of her classmate's wedding. Naturally, with the famous line "look, all your classmates are serious, forming families, and you're still cruising." But that's not the main thing. The main thing is that such things still happen nowadays. Of course you won't see this in big cities, but in small German villages, where the community is fairly serious, everyone knows each other, and are parishioners of the same church, they publish such things. It's like "the news of our church" today, for example, someone got married, tomorrow baptized (though I don't know if they write about that), but you get the gist. Here's such a story, and would you write about your own wedding in a newspaper? In "Arguments and Facts," for example :) #holidays