“‘Napoleon,’ Ithaca’s thinking bull dog knows a good thing when he sees it. That’s why he attended the Lyceum Theater last night and saw William Collier dispense ‘A Littler Water on the Side.’
Not that ‘Napoleon’ was an invited guest. He received no passes from the management or even any invitation to be there, but, as usual, he acted on his own initiative and attended…..
After the show he trotted out of the theater and made a bee-line for the fireplace in the Ithaca Hotel lobby where he was last seen taking a pre-midnight snooze.
The Journal recently printed a story decrying ‘Nap’s’ habit of drinking beer, given him by students in local cades. He has evidently reformed because of his determination to see ‘A Little Water On the Side’ last night.”

“Napoleon Now Takes ‘Water on the Side’: Goes to the Theater to See Collier After Reproval for Drinking Beer.” Ithaca Journal, January 3, 1914, 2.