The Laughter Library published 1936 #259

After General Pershing had had some of his teeth removed at a Washington doctor's office, he heard that his teeth were being sold in souvenir stores for $7.50 a tooth. 'Famous General's teeth!' Pershing, mad as anything, sent three aides out to buy up all they could lay hands on, intent on keeping his molars and bicuspids out of the grasp of a morbidly patriotic public. The aides scurried all over town. Toward evening they came back with 175 teeth.