15,000 Attend Billy Sunday's Funeral of John Barleycorn, Jan. 17, 1920

From The Daily Times, Wilson, N.C., January 17, 1920

Billy Sunday Preaches Funeral of John Barleycorn. . . He Has Fought Consistently for 26 Years. . . Coffin and Mourners

Norfolk, Va., Jan. 16—Fifteen thousand people crowded their way into the Billy Sunday Tabernacle this afternoon to attend the strangest service ever held in the Old Dominion when the evangelist preached the funeral of his arch enemy, John Barleycorn. There was a note of triumph in the meeting, since Sunday 26 years ago began the scattering attack on liquor which gained for him his first nation-wide reputation.