FRANCIS, Joseph H.

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My Last Drink: First edition of this memoir charting the descent of a respectable businessman to alcoholism and then on to reform, published as the country's mood was building toward Prohibition. Loosely inserted are four temperance flyers from the Massachusetts "Red Wing Dry Committee", citing the favorable wages, the lower taxes and the improved labor conditions of dry towns versus wet towns.

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