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Timothy Shay Arthur. Timothy Shay Arthur (June 6, 1809 – March 6, 1885) — known as T. S. Arthur — was a popular 19th-century American writer. He is famously known for his temperance novel Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There (1854), which helped demonize alcohol in the eyes of the American public.
Lees also edited Truth-Seeker from 1844 to 1850, the Teetotal Topic, in 1847, and the Temperance Spectator, in 1859. [2] He was a founding member of the United Kingdom Alliance in 1863. [2] Lees was a vegetarian and occasionally lectured on vegetarianism. In 1857, he won a Vegetarian Society essay competition which was republished in 1884. [2]
Police-court missionaries were managed by voluntary societies such as the Church of England Temperance Society, who would appoint missionaries to the London Police Courts, until the National Probation Service was set up in 1907. [3] Holmes worked as a missionary for twenty years, and dealt with thieves, drunkards, prostitutes, and other criminals.
Malins' 1895 poem, "The ambulance down in the Valley", is a possible reference to the "Upstream Parable", sometimes called the "River Story" which has been attributed in the 1930s to political activist Saul Alinksy, medical sociologist Irving Zola, and John McKinlay in 1975 … (Eliot, L.B. 3 April 2020.
Poster for a 1938 production by the Federal Theatre Project. The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Saved is an American temperance play first performed on February 12, 1844. [1] [2] A drama in five acts, it was perhaps the most popular play produced in the United States until the dramatization of Uncle Tom's Cabin [3] premiered in 1853.
The Preston Temperance Society was founded in 1833 by Joseph Livesey, who was to become a leader of the temperance movement and the author of The Pledge: "We agree to abstain from all liquors of an intoxicating quality whether ale, porter, wine, or ardent spirits, except as medicine."
Lillian M. N. Stevens (1843–1914) was an American temperance worker and social reformer, born at Dover, Maine.She helped launch the Maine chapter of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.), [3] served as its president, and was elected president of the National W.C.T.U. after the death of Frances Willard.
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