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World WCTU Convention highlights 1898 meeting notes
A lengthy review of the World’s WCTU gathering at the Art Memorial Palace Chicago and Washington during October 1898. The report covers opening remarks by Lady Henry Somerset and Jessie Ackerman, addresses by international delegates, and visits by Mrs. Elizabeth Wheeler Andrews and Dr. Kate Bushnell regarding temperance campaigns in India. It recounts sessions with presidents of France Iceland Canada and England, the presence of Chika Sakura and Sen Tsuda of Japan, and tributes to Mary Allen West and Susan B. Anthony. The narrative covers speeches, prayers, and resolutions, the election of officers, and closing prayers with extensive notes on the international scale and female leadership in temperance and social reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Art Memorial Palace
Washington
Willard
Henry Somerset
England
C. Bonney
Bertha Palmer
Charles Henrotin
Josiah Strong
Somerset
Jessie Ackerman
Australis W.O.T. U
Ella Williams
Canada
Lide Merriwether
Tennessee
Williard
Henry
Archbishop Ireland
Anthony Comstock
M’garrick
H. L. Hastings
Francia Williard
France
Iceland
British Columbia
Cape Colony
Africa
Chika Sakura
Japan
Anna Shaw
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Geneleman
Elizabeth Wheeler Andrews
Kate Busheel
House of Parliament
Mary Allen West
Little Brown
Miss West
Lady Somerset
Susan B. Anthony
Miss Anthony
Whs
Amanda Smith
Mary A. Woodbridge
Mother Thompson
Misa Willard
Louise S. Rounds
Silinose W. C. T. U
Matilda B. Carse
Carlos Martyn
Miss Phelps
Mary A. Hunt
Boston
Temperance Temple
Miss Willard
Mary A Woodbridge
L. M. N. Stevens
Ester Pugh
Helen M. Barker
Leonora Barry-Lake
Catholic Woman’s Temperance Union
Andrews
Kate Bushnell
India