The Reverend Elton Jackson Rescue Mission
116 East Merry Street
Ft. Wayne, Indiana 48602
Dear Brother,
Perhaps you have heard of me and my nationwide campaign in the cause of TEMPERENCE. Each year, for the past fiftenn years, I have made a tour of the Midwest; including Indiana, Ohio, Missouri, Michigan, Illinois and West Virginia, delivering a series of lectures on the evils of "drinking."
On this tour, I have been accompanied by my young friend and assistant, Clyde Lindstone. Clyde, a young man from a good family and excellent background, is a pathetic example of a life ruined by excessive indulgence in rot-gut whiskey and wild, fast women.
Clyde would appear with me and sit on the platform wheezing and staring at the audience through bleary and bloodshot eyes, sweating profusely, picking his nose and rear-end, passing gas, scratching his crotch and making obscene gestures to the ladies while I would point him out as an example of what over-indulgence can do to a person.
Last winter, unfortunately, Clyde died.
A mututal friend of ours has given me your name as a possible, qualified replacement and I wonder if you would be available to take Clydes place on my next tour?
Yours in faith,
E.J.
The Reverend Elton Jackson, Founder
Elton Jackson Rescue Mission
