Joseph H Francis
Alderman city of Chicago
1915
My Last Drink
A Tragic human Story
1915
Modern Press-Empire Publishing Chicago hard back 160 pages
good condition considering its 88 years old
First Edition good condition see photos
"The greatest human story ever Written"
A Powerful personal history of a Chicago Alderman and well known business man who dropped from power and wealth to poverty and prison thru drink"

see photos of his most famous "Francisgrams"

Booze Boycotts the Brain
A boozer has a dent in his brain
A little drink makes a big man shrink
All saloon keepers argues that a fly is a pest
A boozer may fool himself but he cannot fool nature
and so on there are 3 or 4 pages of these before the introduction
and through out the book I guess there are 150 or more theses little expressions

The ending of the book has a great statement on men who make what we now call 12 step calls and work
and there is a great statement by him about Sobriety Peace and Happiness

This is a very rare and hard to find book
It is not (was not) published under the guise of any temperance movement etc but evidently self published by Joseph Francis and his friends