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Reno Gazette-Journal, Nevada, August 21, 1913
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Reno Gazette-Journal, Nevada, August 21, 1913
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, July 26, 1908
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Advice; a Book of Poems, Maxwell Bodenheim, 1920
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The Weekly Star and Kansan, Independence, Kansas, May 10, 1895
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Shelbina Democrat, Missouri, December 26, 1888
…took the occasion to propose to Miss Langston, who, though fond of Rowe, declined to name a day until Rowe had stopped drinking. Young Rowe, after her qualified refusal, stepped back a few paces and said: “I have taken my last drink.”
The shock and the sight of the young man’s dead body caused Miss Langston to fall in a faint from which she recovered only to become a raving maniac.
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The Drunkard’s Children, Plate VIII (final scene): The maniac father and convict brother are gone - the poor girl, homeless, friendless, destitute, and gin mad, commits self-murder. George Cruikshank, 1848
(A folding book containing eight scenes; the first; the son and daughter drinking in a gin shop surrounded by low characters; the second; the son gambling, other men and women singing and drinking; the third; the daughter dancing, surrounded by other nefarious looking dancers; the fourth; the son in bed at a lodging house, arrested by policemen for committing a robbery; the fifth; the son in the dock, lawyers and the jury looking at him, his sister crying next to him; the sixth; the son, sentenced to transportation, beckoned off by the gaoler, his sister weeping on his shoulder; the seventh; the son, dying in the sick-berth of a prison hulk, attended by a doctor and the priest, a convict looking on; the eighth, the daughter throwing herself from a bridge in despair.)