OFFAL KING’S WEDDING
CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 2b Despite the general poverty of pre-sent-day Turks, Staniboul was the scene yesterday of an old-style CWstis-liko wedding, on which £ 10,000 was spent. The bridegroom, an Albanian Turk, made a big fortune after the armistice by selling offal. He hired 43 houses for the wedding guests, who arp ' bejng entertained sumptuously for a week. A hundred ipotof ears and 300 open carriages followed t!)P Ip’ide’s closed and curtained carriage fo a large school building, which he had rented and decorated for extravagant festivities. , Each table provided for 300 guests and was loaded with Turkisji delicacies. The wedding presents, it'is s<fk(, worp worth £6,000. I
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 April 1922, Page 4
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109OFFAL KING’S WEDDING Hokitika Guardian, 29 April 1922, Page 4
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