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304 stories matching temper
- A University Built on Cold Water—and a Fight Over the Collection Plate
Seattle prohibitionists incorporate a “temperance university” at Olympia, then a leading Good Templar editor calls it a scheme to tap the movement’s pocketbook.
- A Temperance Minister Refuses to Preach Prohibition—or Hate
At Tacoma’s interstate temperance congress, Rev. Dean Richmond Babbitt urges patient education and rejects the A.P.A., drawing fire from fellow reformers.
- The Great Temperance Schism
Over 1,000 Good Templars defect from their order to join the Sons of Temperance amid internal discord.
- Too Wet for the Dry Crusade: Tacoma Boycotts Francis Murphy
The celebrated temperance lecturer came back to Tacoma to find the Tabernacle locked against him—because he preached gospel temperance instead of prohibition.
- The Fight for the City's Conscience
Prohibitionists and law-and-order advocates rally at the Congregational Church, declaring their intent to purge local politics of 'whiskey men.'
- Temperance Movement Fractures in Seattle
A bitter internal dispute within the Independent Order of Good Templars leads to a secession and the formation of a new division of the Sons of Temperance.
- The Temperance Movement on Vashon Island
A report on the Grand Lodge of the I.O.G.T. session, highlighting the rising influence of local temperance activism.
- The Murphy Temperance Crusade
Evangelist Francis Murphy visits North Yakima, leading hundreds to sign the pledge as the city contemplates a permanent temperance society.
- A Temperance Orator Rides Into Yakima, and the Churches Empty Their Pews for Him
Francis 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.
- A Sanctuary for Temperance and Study
The Women's Christian Temperance Union opens a free reading room to provide young men an alternative to the saloon.
- The Women’s Crusade Meets in Seattle
Temperance activists and leaders, including Miss Willard, gather to discuss the path toward prohibition in Washington Territory.
- The Murphy Temperance Movement Sweeps Aberdeen
Thomas E. Murphy leads a massive revival at the opera house, securing 700 pledges for the temperance cause.
- The Temperance Preacher and the Heavyweight Champion
When 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.
- The Mobbing of the Moralizers
When four prominent temperance leaders and a local businessman tried to close down a suspected illegal saloon, they were met on the street and pelted with rotten eggs.
- Senate Smothers Temperance Measure in Heated Legislative Battle
A key liquor-control bill meets its end in Olympia, with temperance advocates denouncing the replacement legislation as a toothless farce.
- The Blue Law Brawl: Saloon Keepers vs. The Temperance Crusade
In North Yakima, the Women's Christian Temperance Union declares war on Sunday commerce, arresting boxers and threatening every saloon owner in town.
- Temperance Literature by Mail
The Anti-Saloon League pivots to direct mail for those obtaining liquor permits in Eastern Washington.
- The House of Refuge: A Sanctuary for Seattle’s 'Homeless' Women
In an era when single women often faced destitution or vice, the local Women's Christian Temperance Union launches a new initiative to provide respectable housing at moderate rates.
- The Political Tug-of-War Over the Temperance Vote
As Everett prepares to vote on the liquor question, the Labor Journal critiques state senator George Cotterill's approach and argues that labor's interests transcend the wet-dry binary.
- The Temperance Tour That Went Town to Town on Puget Sound
A Woman's Christian Temperance Union organizer spent July 1883 forming locals and gathering pledges in Coupeville, Ferndale, Semiahmoo and Anacortes.
- Blaine's Dry-Town Experiment
The city council refuses liquor licenses, forcing the town's saloons to shut their doors as the temperance movement gains a local victory.
- The Mallet in the Marriage: A King County Divorce
William Conway calls his absent wife a good woman, but a witness recalls an uncontrollable temper—and a mallet—as Judge Osborn grants the divorce.
- Seattle Braces for the T.P.S.C.V. Convention: A City of 150,000 Guests
As delegates from across the West begin to arrive, local committees scramble to house and feed a massive influx of visitors for the upcoming Temperance convention.
- A Temperance Firebrand Comes to the Tabernacle
Mrs. J. C. Stone brings wit, sarcasm, and a stinging critique of men's monopoly on citizenship to a packed Baptist tabernacle.
- Lynden Goes Dry
In a notable outlier for Whatcom County, Lynden voters decide to ban alcohol, prompting a pledge from the council to enforce the new temperance measures.
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- The Farmer and the Unruly Ox
A cautionary tale of how cruelty toward livestock backfires on the master.
- The Tailor’s Violent Temper
When a disgruntled employee suggested his boss find his own stolen goods, the tailor responded with a five-shot revolver in the middle of the shop.
- 'God Almighty Himself': Two Seattle Cops Suspended for Losing Their Tempers
The police board spends an evening on profanity, hurt feelings and a sergeant called 'crazy' — and warns the whole force that bad manners now carry a thirty-day price.