OLD TURK PENSIONED.
PATRIARCH OF THE FOREST.
MAN WITH MANY CHILDREN.
CONSTANTINOPLE. Nov. 22
The Government has given a pension to a forester, Chakildayi, aged 95, who is nicknamed the "Terror of Jackals." He has 59 childron and grandchildren, besides daughters-in-law and sons-in-law, who live under tho same roof.
Chakildayi is robust and his memory is good, but not sufficiently good to enable him to remember the names of all his progeny..
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20421, 25 November 1929, Page 11
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72OLD TURK PENSIONED. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20421, 25 November 1929, Page 11
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