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Images courtesy of E.H.
This card was mailed in 1913, when the phrase "on the water wagon" and its variations were already in common parlance when alcohol was being discussed — as it was so often in those days.
Someone sent this card to Herman Harms, but I don't know who.
Herman did not have a little sister. The handwriting and the general style don't look like Minnie Rossow's, and as for signing her initials "M.H." — that was far in the future. I can only suppose that Herman had some cousin or friend in Chicago whom he treated like a little sister.
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