Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 249, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1912 — FALSE TEETH LEGAL TENDER [ARTICLE]

FALSE TEETH LEGAL TENDER

Bartender .Accepts Molars for Beer in Lieu of Nickel From Man With Thirst v Kansas City, Mo. —Into Tony’s place at 402 Main street came the man with a permanent thirst He sidled up to the bar and in a husky whisper announced to Jerry, the red-headed bartender: “Say, 80, I got to have a drink an’ there’s no use dlscussin’ any compromise. I’d rather firing than eat an’ my stomach craves food. Jus’ to show you I’m all right, even if I haln’t got no money, an’ I’m sincere an’ all that, here’s my false teeth fer one bowl of suds man’s size an’ shy th’ collar. Do I cash ’em in?" “You do,” replied the bartender, and took the man’s upper and lower masticators without so much-as a “bat o? the eye.” “I’ll be back and redeem ’em 'tonight,” assured the jag. “If you don’t I’ll fit another man to ’em,” warned Jerry as he wrapped the molars in a piece of tissue paper and rang them up in the cash register as “five cents.”