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Excerpt from Fifty Years History of the Temperance Cause: Intemperance the Great National Curse, Threatening the Purity and Stability of Our Institutions, Secular and Religious; The Fruitful Source of Poverty, Misery, Crime, and Degradation of the Individual and Family
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