 On Oct. 8, 1941, eastbound Southern Pacific Train #14 had an extended stop at the Colfax Depot so a passenger could have emergency dental work performed. Godfrey Morgan, the passenger in this story, was a nurse from San Francisco accompanying a patient east. He developed a serious toothache en route and a message was sent ahead to the Colfax Depot asking if a dentist could meet the train. Dr. E.G. Williams, the local dentist, answered the call.
After the successful extraction of the painful tooth, Morgan asked Williams if he could pull two more because it was a long trip east and he didn’t want to delay the journey any more than he already had. Williams obliged and extracted two more teeth.
According to the Oct. 10, 1941, Colfax Record: “Now that trains are stopping in Colfax for passengers to have dental operations it probably won’t be long until airplanes will be parachuting patients down on the town for our local dentists to take care of aching teeth for passengers.”
Photo from our collection: Dental extraction forceps, c. 1935
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