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Two unused letters with temperance letterheads and two ink blotters with anti-alcohol slogans.
Blotter #1 (Kitchener Ontario)
Blue ink blotter with text:
“All Liquids Seek the Lowest Level; Alcohol Takes the Drinker With It. Kitchener W.C.T.U.”
W.C.T.U. = Women's Christian Temperance Union.
Unused
3 ⅛” x 5 ¾”
Blotter #2
Pink ink blotter with text:
“A Man Who Drinks Now and Then Usually Drinks More Now Than He Did Then W.C.T.U.”
Unused
3 ⅛” x 5 ¾”
Letter #1 (Orillia Ontario Canada) 191-
Folded into 6.
10 ¾” x 8 ¼”
Letter #2 (Philadelphia PA) 1919
Folded into 6.
10 ⅞” x 8 ½”
The Sons of Temperance was a brotherhood of men who promoted the temperance movement and mutual support. The group was founded in 1842 in New York City. It began spreading rapidly during the 1840s throughout the United States and parts of Canada.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sons_of_Temperance
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is an active international temperance organization that was among the first organizations of women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity." It was influential in the temperance movement, and supported the 18th Amendment. It was also influential in social reform issues that came to prominence in the progressive era.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman%27s_Christian_Temperance_Union
