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superintendent of normal temperance instruction for her State, and did an immense amount of thorough, effective work by lecturing, writing and pledging legislators to the hygiene bill after her arguments had won them to her view of the situation. Next to Mrs. Hunt, Kinney was probably the ablest specialist in that department, having studied it carefully and attended the school of Col.
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temperance seaside resort, gave the association grounds and an auditorium that cost $ 2,500.00 ($ 2,500.00 in 1914 had the same buying power as $ 60,358.00 in 2017). The first meeting of the new
Chautauqua Assembly of Oregon was held in August 1891. Kinney liberally supported the Chautauqua movement in Oregon, having contributed about $ 6,000.00 to the work.
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local-option bill was passed, submitting to the vote of the people in the following June the prohibition of the liquor traffic in each precinct. White assisted in that campaign and had the gratification of seeing prohibition approved by a majority vote of all the citizens, both men and women, of the
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In 1890, she was prostrated by the death of both her children in infancy. She recovered her health, and in 1891, she undertook the work of organizing a
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in securing from the legislature the enactment of temperance laws. Under the persuasive eloquence and wise leadership of White the most stringent scientific temperance law ever enacted was passed by a unanimous vote of both houses. Also, in spite of the bitter opposition of the liquor traffic, a
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Not until the fall of 1880 did she join the temperance movement, in the white-ribbon rank. Her first relation to the WCTU was as president of the local union in her town, Grove City, and next of her own county, Mercer, where she built up the work in a systematic fashion. Next, she was made
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After becoming a teacher before she was 15 years old, she was recalled to her alma mater, the
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