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The Temperance Movement began in the early 1800s and by 1833 there were 6,000 local societies in the United States. Women and children were a driving force in the movements to prohibit the consumption of strong drink, slavery and to promote women's suffrage. This article reports on a temperance society at the school in Conway, Massachusetts. The town Temperance Society passed a resolution to instruct the school committee to write a constitution for school societies which would then be given to the teachers. The teachers would then form Juvenile Temperance Societies in their district. The Gazette & Mercury was the newspaper in Greenfield, Massachusetts, from June 27, 1837 to July 13, 1841, when it changed its name to the Gazette & Courier.

 

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"Temperance in Schools" article from Gazette and Mercury newspaper

publisher   Greenfield Gazette and Mercury
date   Nov 21, 1837
location   Greenfield, Massachusetts
width   3.75"
height   5.25"
process/materials   printed paper, ink
item type   Periodicals/Newspaper
accession #   #L05.029


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See Also...

"Temperance Meeting" article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper

Excerpt from Volume II of the Adelphi Society Records

"Sons of Temperance Membership of Elijah Spencer Fuller"


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