Why John Quit Drinking (1916 Advertisement)

1916

By John's Wife

I'm the happiest little woman,
In all this little town;
And my merry laugh and singing,
Takes the place of sigh and frown.
For JOHN HAS QUIT HIS DRINKING
And is like himself once more,
And the world is just a paradise
With such happiness in store!

One day I read some verses—
"Mary's Miracle," the name,
And I said, that's John exactly,
And I'll send and get the same.
So I sent for GOLDEN TREATMENT.
(As sly as sly could be)
And I put it in John's supper
And I put it in his tea.

And it didn't taste a little bit;
Had no odor, so, you see—
It was smoothest kind of sailing
For little Doctor Me.
And I watched and prayed and waited,
(And cried some, too, I guess),
And I didn't have the greatest faith,
I'm ashamed now to confess.

And John never thought a minute,
He was being cured of drink,
And soon he's as well as any one,
It makes me cry to think!
Just makes me cry for gladness,
I'm so proud to be his wife—
Since he is cured of drinking,
And leads a nice, new life.

"Since John he quit a-drinking!"
I can't any it times enough!
And hates and loathes a liquor
As he would a poison stuff.
And when I say my prayers at night
As thankful as can be—
I pray for John the most of all—
Then GOLDEN TREATMENT.

Home Treatment For Drunkards

Odorless and Tasteless — Any Lady Can
Give It Secretly at Home in Tea, Coffee or Food.

Costs Nothing to Try.

If you have a husband, son, brother, father or friend who is a victim of liquor, all you have to do is to send your name and address on the coupon below. You may be thankful as long as you live that you did it.

Dr. J. W. Haines Company.

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Sept. 16, 1916, p. 7.

Harry Potter, Colored Loiterer, Still in Jail

Excerpt from court news, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1916

The drunks let go this morning were Walter Kelsey, Dan McMuller and John Starr, the latter claiming to have been robbed of $45. Duke Bransirattor will be up again on Feb. 7. James Moran, a vag, and Harry Potter, a colored loiterer, were ordered hold until Feb. 12.

—Fort Wayne News, Feb. 5, 1916, p. 4.


Siloam Fight Monday

Siloam Springs, Ark., May 27. - A group of Tulsa amateur boxers will meet mittmen from Tahlequah, Okla. and Siloam here Monday night, May 29. Harry Potter, Tulsa, and Philip Bluebird, Tahlequah, and Jack Sikes, Tulsa, and Hoss Glory, Tahlequah, head the card.

—Fayetteville Daily Democrat, Fayetteville, Arkansas, May 27, 1933, p. 3.


El Paso, Texas, 1937

Mrs. Harry Potter has returned from a visit of several months in the East.


Salem, Ohio, 1894

Harry Potter, who has been visiting friends here, left last Saturday for Mansfield.


New Castle, Pennsylvania, 1940

Harry Potter, of East Washington street, who has been ill at his home, is somewhat improved.

Court Sentences Drunks, Post-Graduate Work for One

Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1908

BILL HICKS WAS DRUNK WHEN HE TOOK THE TWO RAZORS

Judge Read the Riot Act to Old Timer — The City Court.

"I got nothin' to say only I wouldn't a-done it if I hadn't been drunk," was the only excuse Bill Hicks had to offer Judge Skelton in the city court this morning where he was arraigned for stealing Ben F. McAtee's barber tools after the owner had taken a "stand off" for a hair cut.

"Trouble with you, Bill, you are always drunk," said the judge, "and that's no excuse. I'll just give you five and costs and sixty days for this and when you get out you want to be pretty careful or you'll go back and serve that four months' suspended sentence I've got pickled for you."

Bill had nothing to say. The razors were recovered and the owner got them back, while Bill was marched to his cell preparatory to seventy-five days in jail.

Just Some Drunks.

William McGuire, from up north, got all tangled up about the trolley cars yesterday and when the Toledo and Chicago was tied up he kept asking questions and sandwiching drinks between his visits to the ticket window. Finally he got along to a point where he wanted to run the road and about that time Patrolman Elliott landed him. He drew $1 and costs.

Frank Trunnell was the name of a much-befogged individual picked up near Huntertown yesterday by Deputy Sheriff Hughes. He didn't seem to know just where he was "at" and he got eleven days to straighten him out.

William Timmons, who has been for several days taking a course of treatment at Sheriff Grice's delirium tremens cure, was fined $5 and costs so as to give him a chance to take post graduate course. He had been on a big spree and was seeing things.

—The Fort Wayne Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Indiana, October 3, 1908, page 2.