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2 unusual facts about Temperance


2011–12 Toledo Walleye season

Rauch, a native of the Toledo suburb of Temperance, Michigan, had previously played for two of Toledo's junior hockey clubs, the Toledo Cherokee of the Central States Hockey League (2003–04) and the Toledo IceDiggers of the North American Hockey League (2004–05), before playing collegiate hockey under former Toledo Storm defenceman B.J. Adams at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York.

Temperance Towns

Temperance, Michigan, was named by two of its earliest settlers, Lewis and Martha Ansted.


A Boy in a Bush

Special Agent Seeley Booth shows up at Dr. Temperance Brennan's lecture at American University.

Alcohol during and after prohibition

He believed that this policy had "caused a degree of temperance among Army personnel which is not approachable in civil communities now" by encouraging soldiers "to remain on the reservation (their home) and enjoy refreshment under conditions conducive of temperance." Similarly, Army Major Merrill Moore called for policies to encourage moderation among soldiers who chose to drink and asserted: "Not alcohol, but the intemperate use of alcohol, is the problem in the Army as well as in civilian life."

Arthur Tappan

Throughout their careers, the Tappans devoted time and money to philanthropic causes as diverse as temperance, the abolition of slavery, and the establishment of theological seminaries and educational institutions, such as Oberlin and Kenyon colleges in Ohio.

Callender's Cableworks Band

The Band was started in the 1890s as a Salvation Army brass band, but because they felt limited as to the types of music which they were permitted to play, they formed their own temperance band.

Caroline Miskel-Hoyt

She later portrayed Marguerite in Charles Osborne’s The Face in the Moonlight opposite Robert B. Mantell and the following season as Ruth Hardman, in Charles H. Hoyt's satiric comedy A Temperance Town, that opened on the 17th of September, 1893 at Hoyt’s Madison Square Theatre and ran for 125 performances.

Clifford Cory

In 1895 he heard the 'Ton Pentre Temperance' brass band from the Rhondda Valley at the opening of the Colliery Library in Gelli and offered to provide financial assistance for them resulting in the band’s change of name to ‘The Cory Band’.

Edward Thompson Taylor

Alcohol use was a problem in the maritime world, and Taylor preached and counseled temperance to all his listeners.

Einar Hjörleifsson Kvaran

On his return to Iceland he was a journalist and editor in both Reykjavík and Akureyri; he participated in the struggle for independence and also wrote about education, temperance and theatre.

Eliza Stewart

Eliza Daniel Stewart (1816–1908), early temperance movement leader in the U.S.

Francis R. Tillou

In November 1854, Tillou was nominated on the Municipal Reform and the Temperance tickets for re-election, but was defeated by James M. Smith, Jr. who had been nominated jointly by Hard and Soft Democrats, while most other offices were won by the Whigs, defeating the split Democrats.

Freemasons' Hall, London

The ceiling cove is of Mosaic work and in addition to figures and symbols from Masonic ritual includes, in the corner, figures representing the four cardinal virtuesPrudence, Temperance, Fortitude, and Justice – and the Arms of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (youngest son of Queen Victoria) Grand Master 1901–1939, at whose suggestion the Masonic Peace memorial was built.

Halifax Public Gardens

Another plaque is to mark a tree than was planted for renowned temperance crusader John Bartholomew Gough by the Sons of Temperance and the Rosebud Band of Hope, the latter group being the children's wing of the.

Hans Andersen Foss

A lifelong proponent of the temperance movement and the Populist Party, Foss edited several temperance publications and from 1888 to 1893 served as editor for the Norwegian language newspaper Normanden in Grand Forks, North Dakota.

Hartford Baptist Church

They passed anti-Masonic resolutions in the 1820s and 1830s, recruited local soldiers into the Union Army out of fervent abolitionism and later suffered the burning of their third church due to their advocacy of temperance and support for local dry laws.

Jakob Martin Pettersen

He held leadership and other elected positions in several temperance organisations.

John Giles Lethbridge

As leader, Lethbridge supported a strong temperance policy in opposition to the liberalization of liquor laws by the government of Howard Ferguson.

Julia Bullard Nelson

Julia Bullard Nelson (1842–1914) was an American temperance and women's rights activist from Red Wing, Minnesota.

Julia Coleman

She then became convinced that temperance should be taught in the schools, a belief shared by Mary Hunt, with whom she worked closely.

Kate Shelley

Frances E. Willard, a reformer and temperance leader, wrote president Isabella W. Parks of Simpson College at Indianola, Iowa, offering $25 toward an advanced education for Shelley.

Knut Dybsjord

In 1854 he chaired the first missionary association in Hol, and in 1860 he chaired the first Norwegian temperance league.

Martha Brown

Martha McClellan Brown (1838–1916), major leader in the temperance movement

Massingberd

Emily Langton Massingberd (1847–1897), women's rights campaigner and temperance activist

Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse

The Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse at the American Medical Association (AMA) was established by the temperance-oriented Robert Wood Johnson Foundation with an initial grant of $5 million, followed by more substantial funding.

Paul P. Hastings

His mother was the former Rosetta Butler, who was active in the temperance and anti-smoking movements.

Robert S. Murphy

Murphy was born in Louisville, New York but spent most of his childhood in Portland, Maine, where his family was active in the temperance movement.

Rosminians

:two English priests, Richard Richardson, organizer of a temperance campaign, and enroller in it of 70,000 names, and Joseph Hirst, member of the Royal Archaeological Institute;

Ruskin House

However, the temperance movement was equally strong, and Georgina King Lewis, a keen member of the Croydon United Temperance Council, took it upon herself to establish a dry centre for the labour movement.

Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 2nd Baronet

Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 2nd Baronet, of Brayton (1829–1906), British Liberal Party politician and temperance leader

Stephen Mack, Jr.

Born in Tunbridge, Vermont, he was the son of Stephen and Temperance (Bond) Mack.

Temperance bar

Fitzpatrick's Herbal Health (5 Bank St Rawtenstall, Lancashire BB4 6QS) is thought to be the last original temperance bar.

Temperance Hall, Tennessee

Although he grew up in Temperance Hall, Stokes would retire to nearby Alexandria.

Temperance Town

Temperance Towns, settlements founded by followers of the Temperance movement.

The Most Famous Man in America

After the war, Beecher supported social reform causes such as women's suffrage and temperance.

Theodor Larsson

Sven Svenssons Sven — later recorded by the Swedish-American singers Olle i Skratthult and Charles G. Widdén — brought up the subject of temperance while De rysliga bolshevikerna (The terrible bolsheviks) was a sly piece of political satire.

Thomas Cook

With the opening of the extended Midland Counties Railway, he arranged to take a group of 540 temperance campaigners from Leicester Campbell Street station to a rally in Loughborough, eleven miles away.

United Kingdom Alliance

He had earlier been a member of the Manchester and Salford Temperance Society, and had taken his inspiration from the success of what later, became known as the Maine law.

Virginia General Assembly, 1916

Senator G. Walter Mapp and temperance advocate James Cannon, Jr. (not to be confused with Senator James E. Cannon) drafted the final bill after voters endorsed a referendum in September 1914.

Washingtonian

Washingtonian movement, a temperance movement from early in the history of the United States

William Angwin

He left Cornwall in 1882 to work as a builder in Whitehaven, Cumberland (now Cumbria), where he joined several reform movements and worked for temperance.

William Caine

William Sproston Caine (1842–1903), British politician and Temperance advocate

William Isaac Palmer

In 1876, he purchased Hoxton Hall, in Hoxton, Hackney (a former Music hall) on behalf of the Blue Ribbon Gospel Temperance Mission.

William Steuart

One month later Steuart married Eliza, daughter of Sir Rowland Alston (1654–1697), 2nd Bart., of Odell Castle, Bedfordshire, by his wife Temperance, daughter and heiress of Thomas Crew, 2nd Baron Crew.

Woman's Christian Temperance Union

She started the Bethesda Day Nursery for working mothers, two kindergarten schools, the Anchorage Mission for erring girls, two dispensaries, two industrial schools, an employment bureau, Sunday schools, and temperance reading rooms.

Woodhouse, Leeds

On Holborn Approach (formerly Institution Street) is the Temperance Hall and Mechanics' Institute which was opened by Samuel Smiles in 1851 as an alternative to local pubs for socialising.


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