DENTIST INVENTOR WINS A FORTUNE
NEW YORK, May 2.
Dr. Elmer G. Kesling, a dentist in the small Missouri town of Bloomfield, gave the local bank a shock by depositing a cheque for £97,000. He followed it up with another for £10,750, representing interest on the first amount, the result of his winning a five-years’ Court fight against the General Motors Corporation over a patent on a motoring gadget. Sixty-six-years-ojd Dr, Kesling says he wiil not retire; but nobody will get into'his rooms after 4 p.m. “unless they’ve got a really bad toothache.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22655, 4 June 1948, Page 5
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