An enduring joke

"If you have a toothache and a nickle, and wish to get rid of both, you had better go to the new dentist, Lorenz Boser.  But then, the tooth must be very loose, almost ready to fall out or it will cost more to extract it.  If you don't believe it ask Peter Thies".


I wonder what the real story was here?  Most likely, Pete lost an already loose tooth to an acci-dental bop in the mouth from Lorenz, huh?  ☺ It made the paper, and here we are 102 years later, still laughing.