What the Bottle Does. One Year's Work.
Handbill showing a bottle of alcohol. The bottle's label depicts a boy in short pants with a snake coiled around his body, The label reads "Fluid Extract of Hell. GUARANTEED TO KILL BOYS." Written on the bottle itself are statistics attributed to the effects of alcohol. The bottle sits on a platform labelled "Public Sentiment."<br /><br />Beneath the illustration is the caption, "What the Book Says" and three passages from the Bible. An adress for ordering additional handbills is given at the bottom of the page.
Anti-Saloon League of Virginia
<a href="http://search.library.vcu.edu/VCU:all_scope:VCU_ALMA21452576370001101"><span class="EXLResultStatusAvailable" id="RTADivTitle_0"><span class="EXLAvailabilityCallNumber">HV 5235.V5 A58 1900</span></span></a>
between 1901 and 1916
U.S.A. Temperance Union Pledge
We, the undersigned, connected with the Army of the United States, feeling the necessity of some fafe-guard against the evil of Intemperance so prevalent among us, and believing that Total Abstinence alone will prove effectual, do adopt the following PLEDGE:
I do hereb solemnly pledge myself to this Union, before God and my country, never to use as a beverage any distilled or malt liquors; wine or cider; and that I will do all in my power to promote Temperance among the Officers and Solders of the Army.
Signing this Pledge constitutes me a Member of the U.S.A. Temperance Union.
U.S.A. Temperance Union
M 4, Box 1, folder 1, <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vcu-cab/vircu00097.xml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Thompson Collection of Lincolniana 1803-1965</a>
McGill & Withrow, Printers and Stereotypers
Protect our American Youth by Prohibiting the Liquor Traffic
Woman's Christian Temperance Union placard. A stick handle was once attached to this sign.
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
M 9 Box 51, <a href="http://search.vaheritage.org/vivaxtf/view?docId=vcu-cab/vircu00102.xml">Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978</a>
Dare to Do Right! Temperance mass meeting handbill.
Handbill advertising a Grand Temperance Mass Meeting held in Illinois (likely Dixon, IL) on Thursday Evening October 25, 1866. <br /><br />"Addresses by Rev. G.R.Vanhorne, Rev. S.S. Waltz and Prof. Ferris. A large delegation from the Red Ribbon Club of Amboy will be present. Mrs. Mingle, W.O.Newton, B. Howard and others, Music by the M.E. Choir, and Dixon Light Guard Band. All are cordially invited. PER ORDER OF COMMITTEE."
M 4, Box 1, folder 1, <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vcu-cab/vircu00097.xml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Thompson Collection of Lincolniana 1803-1965</a>
1866 October 25