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Temperance text urges ministers to curb intoxicating drinks
The Journal American Temperance Union reports a February temperance address urging religious leaders to ban ordinary use of alcohol. It cites Pennsylvania history, seamen pledges, and naval reform as evidence, and calls for removing temptation by shuttering taverns and limiting licenses to curb drunkenness.
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South Carolina
Philadelphia
Committee of the House
Pennsylvania
New York
Mariners’ Temperance Society
Oklyna Seamen’s Society
Seamen’s Home
City of
Chase
The
Mariner’s Church
Navy Yard
Charleston
S. C
W. B. Yates
Oswego
Buffalo
Cleveland
van Buren
U. S
Cumberland
Mediterranean
Boston
Navy
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Bombay
Indian Seas
Pacific
Jones
U.S. Nn
Congress
Hawai
Sandwich Islands
Gov. Briggs
Cincinnati
Fourth Street
Providence
State Society