Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1916 — NEW NOSE EACH FIVE YEARS [ARTICLE]

NEW NOSE EACH FIVE YEARS

Mexican Has Silver One That Has to Be Replaced at Regular Intervals. St. Louis. —Does your nose ever wear out and have to be replaced? Here’s a man, Aurilius Rico, a Mexican, who has to nose every five years. It is a silver nose,' and not quite so hard to replace. Rico has had a silver nose for 12 years, having had to replace it twice during that time. Seventeen years ago, while residing in Mexico City, Rico developed a very rare skin disease, and it became necessary to remove his nose. Three operations of skin grafting were tried. Rico carried his arm bound to his face for 24 days at one time. Next four attempts were made to give him a plastic nose, and finally paraffin was poured into the cavity in an effort to make a bump there that would serve as a nose. At last Rico hit upon the idea of a r silver nose and purchased one. Being an artist, he found it simple to tint the nose with flesh coloring so that it can hardly be detected by one not “in op the knows.” It is held in place by spectacles.