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  • It is impossible to obtain an exact accounting, but the American Temperance Society estimated that during each year of the late 1820s nine million women and children drank 12 million gallons of distilled sprits; three million men, 60 million gallons.

    CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

  • It is impossible to obtain an exact accounting, but the American Temperance Society estimated that during each year of the late 1820s nine million women and children drank 12 million gallons of distilled sprits; three million men, 60 million gallons.

    CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

  • It is impossible to obtain an exact accounting, but the American Temperance Society estimated that during each year of the late 1820s nine million women and children drank 12 million gallons of distilled sprits; three million men, 60 million gallons.

    CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

  • And the fact, that from the time of Noah's intoxication, until the organization of the American Temperance Society, the desolating tide of intemperance had been continually swelling, proves that this reliance on unapplied principles, however sound -- this

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

  • And the fact, that from the time of Noah's intoxication, until the organization of the American Temperance Society, the desolating tide of intemperance had been continually swelling, proves that this reliance on unapplied principles, however sound -- this

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society

  • It appears from the fifth report of the American Temperance Society, that more than four times as many, in proportion to the number, over wide regions of country, during the preceding year, have apparently embraced the gospel, and experienced its saving power, from among those who had renounced the use of ardent spirit, as from those who continued to use it.

    Select Temperance Tracts American Tract Society

  • The battle at Kaighn Point occurred at the height of the American Temperance Society movement, which was founded in 1826, and at a time when many, like today, liked to imbibe in wine, beer or whiskey "to warm the cockles of their hearts and bring headaches and regrets the next morning." columnist Ben Courter wrote in the Courier-Post.

    CourierPostOnline.com - News 2010

  • American Temperance Society, the American Sunday-school Union, and the Seamen's Friend Society were born about that time.

    The American Missionary — Volume 50, No. 3, March, 1896 Various

  • Rev.Dr. Justin Edwards, Corresponding Secretary of the American Temperance Society, by leave, addressed the Assembly.

    Minutes of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America 1789

  • Theological, and Practical Roots of the American Temperance Society, 1814-1830 "(Ph. D. dissertation, Religious Studies, University of Virginia, 2008).

    Alcohol and Drugs History Society 2009

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