CINCINNATI DAILY ENQUIRER
September 27, 1864
News
scans from newspaper collection of
Ruth Adams-Battle

transcribed by Ruth Adams-Battle

PULLED HIS TEETH. - We are informed that our friend Jonas A FARR of Middleton Township, has been bedeveled by the draft till he has been compelled to resort to extreme measures to keep it off.  He tried three times to be exempted and failed. He was drafted twice, and paid his commutation. A neighbor of his, Joe BODEN had no upper teeth, and he was thrown out by the Board of Enrollment. So Jonas concluded that he would be on the safe side and he had all the teeth pulled out of his upper jaw.  He is still a Republican and wants the war to go on till the last man and the last dollar are gone.  What strange fanaticism that a man will loose his teeth rather than give up his party.  That draft might be saved by voting the Democratic ticket. - New Lisbon, (Ohio,) Patriot