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201: 542: 435:. In this year, at the fourth annual meeting of the National WCTU held in Chicago, the publisher's report showed an indebtedness on the paper. Frances Willard then moved that the secretary proceed to call the roll of the states, and the delegates respond and pledge the number of subscribers they would become responsible for the ensuing year. Pledges totalling 12,957 were received, and enthusiasm prevailed. Among the recommendations for the year's work was one relating to 32: 534:, 1905, when she said:— "I must insist that it is not too much to expect that each local union should maintain a subscription list equal in number to one fourth of its membership. Those unions which have reached this point are to be congratulated, not alone because they have conformed to this request, but because of the great uplift which must inevitably come to a local union and to a community through the liberal reading of 463:, we must urge this Convention to impress upon the local auxiliaries that they have one National official organ, and one only; since there are other papers prominently circulated and largely subscribed for by temperance women, which are by many supposed to be equally entitled to their patronage, which, as our experience proves, interfere greatly with the circulation of 1048: 1013: 491:. It represented the W.C.T.U.'s rapidly growing work in western states. It was started in a most modest way, a desk room being secured in the rooms of the W.C.T.U. The paper from the first became a favorite. In a few weeks the circulation had so increased that a publisher had to be engaged. In November 1882, 510:
made its first appearance January 4, 1883. For twenty years thereafter, the organ was owned and published by the Woman's Temperance Publishing Association of Chicago, which association had full control of the paper financially, while its editorial policy was controlled by the National WCTU. On
359:, Ohio, in 1875, Mrs. E. E. Marcy, secretary of the Committee on Publication Interests, reported that, after overcoming the various hindrances incident to such an enterprise, the project of publishing an official organ had been inaugurated the previous June at New York. The paper was called 467:. Having laid before our sisters such phases of the paper as the year's experience has developed we ask them to consider, prayerfully and with all due deliberation, their duty to a paper which is endeared to us as to them by long and earnest labors on its behalf." 439:
which read: "Each state will be expected to pledge itself, through its delegates, for a specified number of copies. Our local unions have come up nobly to the rescue, but we expect a largely increased enthusiasm in the year to come."
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It was recorded that "much discussion followed", and an amendment was adopted eliminating the financial responsibility on the part of the states, but there was a generous pledging of subscriptions,
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Whereas, The paper published by the National Temperance Union as its organ is one of the strongest bonds to hold together our interests in separate localities, devoted as it is to our work,
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as editor and Johnson and Frances Willard as contributing editors. This report included resolutions drafted by the Committee on Publication Interests, one of which was as follows:—
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Resolved, That we, as delegates, pledge ourselves a certain number of subscribers in our several states, and in case of failure, to raise money to cover the amount subscribed.
447:, the Publishing Committee reported that the paper had come through the year free from debt and with a small balance in the treasury. This report, signed by Frances Willard, 1150: 1145: 1165: 297: 1125: 1033:
Report of the International Council of Women: Assembled by the National Woman Suffrage Association, Washington, D.C., U.S. of America, March 25 to April 1, 1888
605:: For God And Home and Every Land. (upper left); National and World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union (upper right); And World's White Ribbon (lower center). 1170: 476: 1130: 272: 48: 1160: 189: 363:, and six numbers had been issued up to the time of the convention. Wittenmyer, as chairman of the committee, was the active publisher, with 226: 67: 1135: 308:, in 1874, a committee was appointed to consider the establishment of a paper as the organ of the union. This committee consisted of 765: 710: 348:. Being unable to formulate definite plans before the close of the convention, the committee was given full power to act. 923: 518:
The thought and the hope of the early workers for this publication were hoped to inspire the women of future years. The
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Not only did the paper's name change after the merger, at least in one year, 1894, it dropped the word "The" from its
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October 10, 1903, the paper was bought outright by the National WCTU and thereafter was edited and published at
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A Brief History of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union: Outline Course of Study for Local Unions
835: 750: 730: 406: 341: 337: 805: 795: 790: 745: 402: 276: 124: 541: 286:, was published in 2015, the main focus of which was current research and information on drugs. 147: 1031: 875: 775: 725: 659: 154: 142: 815: 755: 680: 345: 1081: 850: 820: 810: 700: 655: 651: 391: 229:(National WCTU), at one time, the largest women's organization in the United States. 1119: 1052: 1017: 705: 638: 634: 630: 626: 622: 618: 612: 608: 499:, the monthly paper that had been the organ of the National Society for seven years. 484: 325: 506:. Mary Bannister Willard retained her position when the consolidation was effected. 275:
in the U.S. Initially, a weekly 16-page illustrated newspaper, it shifted location (
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was elected editor, with Mrs. S. K. Bolton, Ohio; Mrs. Helen E. Brown, New York;
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Editors have included: Mary Bannister Willard (January 1883 - July 1885),
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became the national organ of the W.C.T.U. when it was consolidated with
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Jimerson, Randall C.; Blouin, Francis X.; Isetts, Charles A. (1977).
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Guide to the Microfilm Edition of Temperance and Prohibition Papers
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The last edition of the National WCTU's quarterly journal, titled
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Temperance movement in the United States
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Chicago
Illinois
Evanston, Illinois
ISSN
0041-7033
OCLC
1767985
theunionsignal.com
Media of the United States
List of newspapers

Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Chicago
Illinois
temperance movement
Evanston, Illinois
first annual convention
Cleveland
Ohio
Annie Turner Wittenmyer
Pennsylvania
Susan J. Swift Steele
Wisconsin
Massachusetts
Elizabeth Eunice Smith Marcy
Illinois
Oakland, California

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