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...Manhattan, thugs entered the dental office of Dr. H. A. Parr, stole from his safe sheets of gold, six original mouth interiors mounted with full sets of teeth in gold and platinum. Not for these did Dr. Parr, Civil War veteran, mourn, but for three gold "sets" which were of immense historical value, being copies of oral equipment that Dr. Parr had constructed to assist President Ulysses S. Grant and Mrs. Grant, and President Chester A. Arthur to masticate their food. This celebrated trio were all onetime patients of Dr. Parr...
...Those sets," said Dr. Parr, "were of more than passing interest because they illustrated the best work done more than 50 years ago. . . . I intended to give the plates to a dental school. They have already traveled to many parts of the world, and have been used in lectures in dental schools in nearly every state in the country...
...Barclay's Bank, Lloyd's Bank, London County and Westminster and Parr's Bank London Joint City and Midland Bank, National Provincial and Union Bank of England...
...scene is laid at the court of King Henry VIII of England at the time when that jovial monarch is enjoying the company of his sixth wife, Catherine Parr. At the court is Godred, a Celtic knight, detained in the palace as a prisoner of war. Godred is a heroic figure; a typical "man who knows no fear...
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