Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1917 — GOT RID OF ACHING TOOTH [ARTICLE]

GOT RID OF ACHING TOOTH

Frenchman Driven to Heroic Act, When There Seemed to Be-No Other Method of Relief. Here is a yarn told to the unsuspecting people of Bath by one of Lon Wellman’s building moving crew of Augusta. One of the Wellman crew of house-movers was formerly a street car conductor. Last evening he had a Frenchman friend who on one occasion had a terrible toothache. He saw the hole In the Frenchman’s tooth and advised the man to have it out. His friend went out to do so, but found all the dentists’ shops closed, owing to the lateness of the hour. The Frenchman bofe the pain as long as he could and then resolved on heroic remedies- He went to his room, took out a powder flask and poured out some gunpowder, which he jammed into the big hole in his tooth; then he put in for a fuse a piece of silk thread and plugging up the hole over the powder, started the fuse and blew that tooth across the room out of his jaw 1 Joe says that he can vouch for the truth of the statement, for next morning the Frenchman came downstairs with a smile on his face, all pain gone and showed him the hole in his jaw made by the blasting of his tooth.— Kennebec Journal.