Alcohol, Temperance & Prohibition
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5 minutes talk with the prudential on industrial life insurance
4th July, 1847
222 shots at the liquor traffic
1853-1857
14 good reasons for voting California dry
125th anniversary proclamation
Cites the organization's work for women's rights and human rights as well as temperance and invites citizens to honor its past and future service Cites the organization's work for women's rights and human rights as well as temperance and invites citizens to honor its past and future service Printed in sepia on heavy tan paper within double-line border with ornamental upper corners. At head of text: Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 125 years of exemplary service.
101 shots at the liquor traffic
Orange coverlet. Contains loose insert.
"References to authorities quoted": p. 32. Alcohol, Physiological effect of.
$100,000,000 saved Connecticut in three dry years
by T. Justin Steuart. Title from cover.
[The chief aim of our temperance workers...]
"The chief aim of our temperance workers in this day is to cause an arrest of thought, in the minds of the intelligent and well disposed, concerning the reasonableness of total abstinence."
[Subscription card]
[7 news clippings]
[5 news clippings]
"What! rob a poor man of his Beer!"
by John Barleycorn, Jr. Poetry and prose. Within border of type ornaments. First line same as title. Includes poem in five four-line stanzas and paragraph about male employees'spending two-thirds of wages to saloons. Suggested range of publication dates from internal evidence.
"Wet" slanders of Abraham Lincoln refuted
"Wet" and "Dry" territorial map of the United States, April 1, 1915
Note. - This map shows as "dry" those states also which have adopted Prohibition but where the law has not yet gone into effect. White - "Dry"; Black - "Wet".
"Successfull" control of beverage alcohol
"Our customers are your prospective patients"
"One glass more."
Poetry printed within double border of type ornaments. Printed area measures: 15.4 x 9.2 cm. At end of text within border: No. 50. American Tract Society. The American Tract Society, headquartered in New York, began printing in 1826. Appearance and type face of this piece suggest publication not later than 1848. First line: Stay, mortal, stay! nor heedless thus.
"Old judge" advertising challenged
"Look out"
"It does move, though."
Pages [1] and [4] blank. Within ornamental border with crossed corners on pages [2]-[3 Type-signed at end of poem: A Brother. In lower margin on page [3]: To be read by the author (L.A.M.) before the Ottaugechee Division of the Sons of Temperance at Woodstock, Vt., Dec. 13, 1873.
"I've got it!" or, The rumseller jubilant
Advertisement for two of Ludlow's temperance songs, "I've got it!" and "What Gracie and God did for me," with first verses of each and reviews. Advertisement for two of Ludlow's temperance songs, "I've got it!" and "What Gracie and God did for me," with first verses of each and reviews. Cut of dancing man holding paper marked "License to sell liquor" below title; at lower left corner cut of little girl holding arm of man about to leave room. Possible range of dates suggested by internal evidence and by publication dates for other songs by Ludlow. Lorin Ludlow is the pseudonym for James Louis Daymude (cf. Verso of title page of Brown University's "Original rum convention" (76-01 L9342 Harris)
"I'll try."
By Rev. Peter Stryker, D.D. At head of title cut of man embracing little girl. Caption title. In upper right corner on page [1]: No. 4.
"I would like to see someone get him in"
"Hired"
"Discourse," delivered before South Meadow Division, No. 88, S. of T: Tuesday evening, June 11, 1867
by A Member for Life. Caption title. Title continues: From a text found too often upon the records of the divisions of our order, which reads as follows: "I, --- respectfully ask leave to withdraw from the Order." Poem in 40 four-line stanzas. Order is probably the Sons of Temperance.
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