WCTU Railway
WCTU Railway The WCTU Railway (AAR reporting mark WCTU), also known as the White City Traction ... RR but is now known as the WCTU Railway. About 2000 they acquired RSS SW1200 ... they got another SW1200, the 1503. Now WCTU uses one unit for a month, ...
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Woman's Christian Temperance Union
... Union The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is the oldest continuing non-sectarian women ... Christian Temperance Union. The purpose of the WCTU is to combat the influence of alcohol ... of alcohol, tobacco, recreational drugs, etc. The WCTU perceived alcoholism as a consequence of larger ... a personal weakness or failing. Thus the WCTU was very interested in a number of ... in numbers and strength, members of the WCTU also focused on suffrage. The WCTU ...
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The Department of Scientific Temperance Instruction
... arm of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), was an important part of the temperance ... state. In 1879 Mrs. Hunt addressed the WCTU's national convention on the subject of ... Mrs. Hunt developed the strategy of having WCTU members pressure state legislators to mandate temperance ... level by legions of determined and vigilant WCTU members throughout the nation. The WCTU promoted compulsory temperance education so as ...
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Mary Hunt
... recommendations and possible endorsement. For example, the WCTU leader didn’t approve of any book that ... be incorrect. The group concluded that the WCTU's program of temperance instruction was seriously ... temperance instruction (Hunt, 1904, p. 23). “The WCTU was perhaps the most influential lobby ever ... 1985, p. 519) Temperance writers viewed the WCTU's program of compulsory temperance education as ... p. 516; also see Flanders, 1925). The WCTU "laid the groundwork for the formal ...
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Talk:Scools in the 19th century
... and Suffrage The Women’s Christian Temperance Movement (WCTU)was the largest women’s organization of the nineteenth century. Funded in 1874, the WCTU addressed what was most women’s primary concern ... the actions was the formation of the WCTU. It was widely recognized then that the ... The substantial and rapid growth of the WCTU after 1874 far outpaced any organization working ... behalf of woman suffrage. In fact, the WCTU in its early years wanted nothing ...
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Carolyn Merrick
... of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) as a 'lady who can make the WCTU a success, even in the volatile city ... year term as president of her local WCTU chapter, Merrick became president of the National WCTU in 1882. See also National Prohibition of ...
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Temperance movement
... level by legions of determined and vigilant WCTU members throughout the nation. Temperance writers viewed the WCTU's program of compulsory temperance education as ... righteousness." Jubilant with victory, some in the WCTU announced that, having brought prohibition to the ... University Press, 1928. Sheehan, Nancy M. The WCTU and education: Canadian-American illustrations. Journal of ...
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Marie C. Brehm
... for the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). She served as Superintendent of Franchise of the national WCTU and California State Superintendent of WCTU Institutes. She had also served as the ...
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Jessie Rooke
... of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), becoming the groups Australiasian president in 1903. In 1903 Rooke and the WCTU organised women to vote in the federal election. Rooke remained president of the WCTU until her death in 1906. Refernece Women ...
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Susanna M. Salter
... a joke intended to embarrass the local WCTU, several local-area men nominated Salter, then ... of the Prohibitionists, the Republicans, and the WCTU, she was elected with a two-thirds majority. Instead of embarrassing the local WCTU, the men helped elect the first woman ...
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