Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 February 1912 — Romance of a Gold Tooth [ARTICLE]

Romance of a Gold Tooth

Macedonian Slaves for Coveted Filling to Win Qlrl—Makes Fortune and Beeks Sweetheart. Wabash, Ind.—Nicholas TetsUff, a Macedonian, has had one great ambition since boyhood—to have a gold tooth. Poverty would not permit of the necessary expenditure in his earlier days, but when he left his native land for America three years ago ae promised Kyra Yannoula, a peasant

. - j_,-> girl, that he would return for heiw. after he had a gold tooth. He finally succeeded in getting together a fortune. A few days ago he went to a dentist and two houn later a gold crown covering one of his in* cisors. He paid the .dentist’s bill and bought a railroad ticket to New York. In the afternoon he started for Macedonia to join the girl who is w*tUuA for his return.