Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1916 — WILL HAVE DIAMOND SMILE [ARTICLE]

WILL HAVE DIAMOND SMILE

Kansas Chauffeur Has Had Effective “Sparkler” Set In One of His Gold Teeth. Some people walk around their chair to change their luck; others hunt for the left hind foot of a rabbit. William (Smiley) Rutledge, a colored chauffeur and houseman, has sprung a brand new scheme, says a Wichita (Kan.) dispatch to the New York World. He is having a diamond mounted on one of his teeth. Every time “Smiley” smiles one of his golden smiles it will be more than golden, for Smiley is introducing the “diamond smile” to WichitaWhen- a dentist, who is building a new set of front teeth for Smiley, gets through the happy colored man will have a mouth filled with gold, and from the front of one of the gold teeth will gleam a diamond about an eighth of a carat in size. When a boy he climbed down into a well and a playmate dropped a stone on him. The rock hit him oh top of the head and caved in a part of the skull. A physician took out the crushed bone and inserted a silver plate.