A TOOTHLESS PEOPLE.
Terrible times in Warrenton* Va, am thus depicted by the editor of the “ Sentinel A few weeks ago a dentist came to town and advertised that he would *rcmovo all of a persons teeth for 2d015., and insert anew set for lOdols., besides giving six; months credit’. The Warrenton people am very fond of bargains, so there was a rush for the dentist’s office. He was busy for two weeks pulling teeth. At the end o£ that time half the people had empty gums,' and a bone-dust factory in the neighbourhood doubled the workman so as to grind up the teeth. Meanwhile the people wero Waiting for the dentist to fit thom’with new sets, when the Scoundrel eloped with the hotel keeper’s wife, and now there are two or three thousand people in the town who cannot cat any thing tougher than soup or farina. All the butchers have failed, and not a cracker has been sold for three weeks. One man, it is said, whittled out a set of wooden teeth for himself, but the first drink of whisky he took—Warrenton whisky—* set them in a blaze, and his funeral came off the next day. The dentist will hear o£ something to Ids disadvantage when ha comes back,”
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Dunstan Times, Issue 679, 23 April 1875, Page 1
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212A TOOTHLESS PEOPLE. Dunstan Times, Issue 679, 23 April 1875, Page 1
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