Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Pacific Coast Architect, Vol. 3: A Monthly Journal for the Architectural Interests of the Pacific Coast; April, 1912
Through the courtesy of G. C. Nickerson, the pacific coast architect was handed the following from Morn ing Progress, a paper published at Willows, Cal., which will amuse our readers: In these days of keen competition in cement and con crete work, with one contractor advertising that he will lay guaranteed sidewalks for ten cents a square foot, it looks like a fancy price to charge a man $10 for filling a hole in a tooth no bigger than the yolk of a humming bird's egg with the same kind of material. And yet that is the stunt that Dr. A. P. Deacon pulled off on V. V. Pittman, demonstrator and advertising man for the Henry Cowell Lime Cement Company, the said Pittman now being in these parts to demonstrate to farmers and other possible users of cement how to handle the Mt. Diablo brand of that article, handled exclusively by his company.
This Pittman is some advertising artist. He is thor oughly convinced that the Mt. Diablo cement is the finest brand of cement in the world, and he has pretty well succeeded in making all the local contractors think the same way. But lately he has been brooding over the fact that such a really classy article should not be used in the arts and sciences. Finally the idea hit him that no man should go with hollow teeth while there was a spoonful of Mt. Diablo cement in the country. And to show that he had perfect confidence in the honesty and good intentions of his own dope he called upon Dr. Deacon and asked him to fill his tooth with cement - not any kind of cement. But the kind of cement that he was introducing.
Nobody can bluff Dr. Deacon. If Pittman had really wished his tooth filled with dynamite the doctor would have rigged up some kind of a long distance apparatus and gone at it. So when the advertising man wanted a cement floor laid in his molar the doctor smiled genially.
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