Sneezes In Church, Loses False Teeth

1920

Molars Burn in Furnace, Stop Religious Meeting.

LEWIS SQUARE, N. Y., March 18 — Last week Eli Sands attended the services at the Union church. During the sermon Sands sneezed. Both plates of his false teeth left his mouth, struck the radiator and rolled into the furnace. Ten minutes later the burning plates emitted a disagreeable odor and the services were postponed to 2 p.m.

The congregation left the church while Janitor M. V. Bills opened the radiator and removed the burning plates. The church was aired and the odor disappeared.

Sands says he paid $50 for his teeth the week before, and now they are ruined.

Comments: "Now they are ruined." I suppose they are, 10 minutes in a furnace. It brings to mind that ancient proverb: "Fixodent and forget it."


Goes 30 Years Without Teeth.

ST. ALBANS, Vt. — Thirty years ago Atlas Burden, a farmer near here, had every tooth in his head extracted, intending to have false ones. Believing that he could not wear them, he kept putting it off, and not until two weeks ago did he make up his mind that he could use false teeth. He now says he feels like a colt with his new grinders.