Keeley Institute
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- Oct 19, 1891Olympia’s New ‘Keeley Cure’ Promised to Break Drink and Opium Habits in Three WeeksDr. Watt opens a Keeley Institute in the Union block, touting a round-the-clock regimen of medicine, hypodermic injections and baths — and applications are already arriving from across Puget Sound.Olympia, WA
- Dec 4, 1891A Newspaper Opens a Fund So Poor Men Can Afford the Keeley CureThe Tribune sets a contribution box at Main and Fourth for Olympia residents too poor to pay for the Keeley Institute's addiction treatment, seeding the fund with $5 and naming a committee to vet applicants.Olympia, WA
- Dec 21, 1891The Keeley Cure Comes to OlympiaOlympia's Keeley Institute promises release from drink, and the Tribune opens a discreet charity fund for patients who cannot pay.Olympia, WA
- Jan 4, 1892The First Gold-Cure Club in WashingtonAt Olympia's Keeley Institute, former patients formed the state's first Bi-chloride of Gold Club—part mutual-aid society, part fundraising engine for poor alcoholics who could not afford the cure.Olympia, WA
- Jan 5, 1892The Gold Cure Club: Olympia's Reformed Drinkers Form a Society of Their OwnVeterans of the Keeley Institute organize a mutual-aid club — president, sergeant-at-arms and all — to pull other men with "the drink disease" back from the brink.Olympia, WA
- Mar 21, 1892A Community Effort to Save a Young LifeLocal residents pool their own money to send a young man struggling with addiction to the Keeley Institute for treatment.Olympia, WA