Judge, 1900-05-12 · page 11 of 16
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This page is primarily **advertising and advocacy** rather than political satire. The main content is a lengthy article promoting Dr. Leslie Keeley's alcohol treatment institute in Dwight, Illinois—a real, historically significant facility that operated from 1879 onward. **The Article's Message:** The piece argues that alcoholism is a *disease* (not moral failing), treatable through Keeley's scientific methods rather than "moral suasion." It claims 300,000+ patients across many states have been cured in four weeks without physical pain, drawing patients from all social classes—lawyers, clergy, bankers, mechanics. **Historical Context:** This represents Progressive Era optimism about medical solutions to social problems. The Keeley Institute was genuinely influential in late-19th-century America. **Supporting Advertisements:** The page includes ads for Wilson Whiskey, Club Cocktails, Lion Brand children's shirts, and Vigorol (a beef drink tonic)—creating ironic juxtaposition between promoting alcoholic products and alcohol treatment. The page contains **no political cartoons or satire**—it functions as advertorial content for a medical enterprise.
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‘The American was familiar long ago with the sad but certain havoc which continued ase of alcoholic stimulants could work with pocket-book, brain and reputation. And now be sees, through his active interest in athletics, that no candidate for honors in contests of nerve and muscle dares to indulge in intoxicants if he hope to prove superior. The man who plays golf, rides a wheel, plays base-ball, or who exercises his body in auy moderate way, has found out, like his professional brother, that a certain loss of nerve force and power follows the frequent use of alcoholic stimulants or of drugs. The history of the prize-ring alone shows that some of the most powerful men who have bat- ded for physical supremacy in this country have wrecked magnificent physiques in this manner, just as we have seen hundreds of the brightest and most promising minds in ather callings ruined through the same agency. In view of this it is certainly instructive to consider the heavy handicap under which the man of average or inferior physique must labor Who has become addicted to the liquor habit—or rather to the liquor désease. For that it really is a diseased condition of the body, which affects the confirmed drinker and drives him faster and faster to ruin, no one can now doubt. Time was, only a few years ago, when a man afflicted by the liquor tabit was finally given up for lost if he could not respond to the appeals and threats of moral suasion, Those were the days when many thousands of strong bodies and keen intellects were lost forever because no scientific treatment for their diseased physical con- dition had yet been discovered, or even dreamed of, Now, however, all this is changed. Dr. Leslie E. Keeley of Dwight, Ill, has made it possible to become sound in mind and body and free from the curse of a consuming appetite for rum, He alone proceeded on the theory that the fierce craving of the drunk- uae REBUILDING A MAN. ard was caused by a diseased condition of the nervous system, and that without the aid of an outside agency absolute cure was impossible. He established an Institute for the treatment of alcohol and drug inebriates at Dwight, which has been in operation now over twenty years, and to meet the public demand branches were established in nearly every State and Territory. Over 300,000 men and women have been cured in the Keeley Institutes, all of which are known by the uniform title of The Keeley Institute,” and obtain their remedies from The Leslie E. Keeley Company's Laboratory at Dwight. This vast army is drawn from all classes of men, including many who stand high in law, medicine and the ministry, as well as bankers, drummers, teachers, mechanics, etc, Some were the most hopeless kind of drunkards, yet all have by the Keeley methods and rem- edies been permanently restored to their homes, to their business, and to society, forever free fromthe curse of intemperance. Special provisions are always made for lady patients, and not a few have availed themselves of the benefits of the relief afforded. The entire cure is effected in about four weeks’ time, and without bodily pain or injury, as liquor is not withdrawn until the necessity for it ceases. The patient finds his desire for liquor growing less daily, till finally it ceases altogether, and at the end of a course of treatment he is a new man mentally, morally and physically. There is no restraint while under treatment, save such as insures proper deportment. The patients feel, and in all respects are treated, like boarders at a health-resort, and usually regret the termi- nation of treatment. A visit to a genuine Keeley Institute—and visitors are permitted upon legitimate errands—will give a person many new ideas and prove a revelation in more ways than one. Certain things are possibilities—fire, ac- cident, disease. Death is a certainty. He's a poor reasoner who provides against the uncertain and yet neglects to insure his life. Tommy—"* Pop, a stag-party is a party of men, isn't it?" Zommy's pop—" Yes, my son.” Tommy—"* Then stagnation would bea nation where there weren't any women, wouldn't it?” —Philadelphia Record, Once upon a midnight dreary, while I lay, 80 weak and So beset by tna! the great bebe indigestion that the greatest pains I bore, Itmay be done at low cost in the Paxw Murat Lire, 921-35 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. meee presented — surely this can be | otter ean aa premade eee et OIESECZEMA CURE, $1 e.ceses.testencies | \idonectorere ny COCKTAILS MANHATTAN, MARTINI, WHISKEY, HOLLAND GIN. TOM GIN, VERMOUTH and YORE. ‘Wo guarantee these Cocktails to be made of absolutely pureand well matared liquors. ‘and the mixing equal to the best cocktails verved over any barin the world. Being compounded in accurate pi ns, they will always be found of uniform quality. Connotsseurs agree that of two cocktails made of the same material and propor- tions the one which is aged must be the better. ‘Try our YORK Cocktall made without any sweetening—<ry and delicious, For Sale on the Dining and Baffet Cars of the princtpal railroads of the U. 8. AVOID IMITATIONS. For Bale by all Droggiste and Dealers, G. F. HEUBLEIN & BRO,, Solo Props., 29 Broadway, N. Y., Hartford, Conn. 20 Piccadilly, W. London, Eng. Established 1823. WILSON WHISKEY. That’s All! ** Personal appearance is a helpful factor i business success.” ‘Yes; and business suc- cess is a helpful factor in personal appearance.” Chicago Record. i Abbott's, the Orig Angostura Bitters, makes you glad you're living and keeps you glad. 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