WEDDING DELAYED.
Bridegroom Had Swallowed False Teeth. MELBOURNE, August IS. An extraordinary and untimely accident caused a suburban wedding to be postponed for two hours last night. The prospective bridegroom was having his last meal as a bachelor when he had the misfortune to break his false teeth in halves. What might have been merely an unfortunate nuisance was made serious by the fact that he swallowed them. He was rushed to the Alfred Hospital, and from there was sent to the Eye and Ear Hospital, where an X-ray examination revealed the broken denture lodged in his stomach. lie was re-directed to the Alfred Hospital. In spite of the misfortune, he determined that the ceremony should take place! and the marriage was performed at a private house in Malvern at 9.45.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 849, 24 August 1933, Page 1
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131WEDDING DELAYED. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 849, 24 August 1933, Page 1
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