Francis Murphy
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- Nov 16, 1891The Newspaper Owner Who Disavowed His Own EditorialFrancis Murphy reads L.S.J. Hunt’s letter to a Seattle crowd, disowning the Post-Intelligencer’s anti-temperance editorial and sending $200 for the cause.Seattle, WA
- Jan 15, 1892The Temperance Preacher and the Heavyweight ChampionWhen gospel temperance evangelist Francis Murphy visited a Tacoma theater to convert prize fighter John L. Sullivan to sobriety, he found the champion as stubborn as his reputation.Tacoma, WA
- Mar 3, 1892A Temperance Orator Rides Into Yakima, and the Churches Empty Their Pews for HimFrancis Murphy, who talked three thousand Tacomans into signing the pledge, opens a revival at Switzer's Hall under W.C.T.U. auspices — and the ministers cancel Sunday evening services so the whole town can hear him.Yakima, WA
- Mar 10, 1892The Murphy Temperance Movement Sweeps AberdeenThomas E. Murphy leads a massive revival at the opera house, securing 700 pledges for the temperance cause.Aberdeen, WA
- Mar 10, 1892The Murphy Temperance CrusadeEvangelist Francis Murphy visits North Yakima, leading hundreds to sign the pledge as the city contemplates a permanent temperance society.Yakima, WA
- Jul 25, 1892Too Wet for the Dry Crusade: Tacoma Boycotts Francis MurphyThe celebrated temperance lecturer came back to Tacoma to find the Tabernacle locked against him—because he preached gospel temperance instead of prohibition.Tacoma, WA