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PEOPLE'S TEMPERANCE LEAGUE. "Forty men and women and some small boys" met at the Baptist Church in May 1874 to form a temperance association. Named the People's Temperance League, the group opened its membership to anyone over the age of ten years who agreed to follow the organization's constitution. Meeting were held every two weeks. Membership dues of twenty-five cents annually was charged male members while women were excluded from the assessment. A committee of ten women was organized to circulate petitions praying for enforcement of the law.
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"The Temperance Jig," Dubuque Herald, May 8, 1874, p. 4. Online: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=uh8FjILnQOkC&dat=18740508&printsec=frontpage&hl=en