Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Frances Willard stands behind her mother, at left, and Anna B. Gordon, who worked as a secretary and lived in the Willard ...

The NATIONAL WOMEN’S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT was founded in Cleveland, Ohio in 1874. The initial purpose of the WCTU was to promote abstinence from alcohol, which they protested with pray-ins at ...

The enormous success of the temperance movement among native-born American women between 1874 and 1900 entwined the destiny of the suffrage movement with the temperance movement during the last ...

Portland, Maine-- The mansion that serves as Maine headquarters of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union lay largely fallow until recently, with drug needles, liquor bottles and pornographic ...

PORTLAND, Maine - The mansion that serves as Maine headquarters of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union lay largely fallow until recently, with drug needles, liquor bottles and pornographic ...

The 950 women and 37 of their husbands who gathered in the banquet room of the Sheraton-Palace Hotel did their best to ignore what they insisted was the reek of whisky seeping through the glass doors ...

BUTLER — The historically significant Woman's Christian Temperance Union building on Main Street is a lost cause due to an April 2 fire, but the WCTU sign that hung on its facade for much of the 20th ...