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Adelia E. Carman, Contest Booklets

WCTU oratorical contest booklets were compiled by Adelia Carman, the National WCTU Superintendent of Medal Contests. They were printed at the WCTU’s…

Tags: chicago, contest, elocution, Illinois, oratory, public speaking, temperance, WCTU, woman's christian temperance union, women's history

Anna A. Gordon, The Children's Tribute to the Prohibition States: A Prohibition Playlet, National WCTU Publishing House, ca. 1916

Anna Gordon, Frances Willard’s personal secretary and fourth president of the WCTU, authored many stories, verse, and songs for children. Sales of her…

Tags: Anna Gordon, children, drama, Frances Willard, pageant, play, playlet, prohibition, temperance, theater, twentieth century, WCTU, woman's christian temperance union

Benjamin Ward Richardson, Dialogues on Drink, National Temperance Society and Publication House, 1882

Benjamin Ward Richardson was a British physician who advocated total abstinence from alcohol. He was also a prolific writer of biographies, plays,…

Tags: Benjamin ward richardson, Britain, dialogues, elocution, Frances Willard, medicine, nineteenth century, scientific temperance, scotland, temperance, WCTU, woman's christian temperance union

Doris Smith, The Spirit of Frances Willard: A Pageant, National WCTU Publishing House, 1923

Doris Smith’s “pageant play of Health and Temperance” was written “particularly for Frances Willard Day in our public schools.” Frances Willard is to…

Tags: children, drama, Frances Willard, pageant, temperance, theater, twentieth century, WCTU, woman's christian temperance union

E. A. Morgan, Temperance Plays for Radio or Stage, Parthenon Press, 1951

The publication of these radio plays was funded by May Bonine, a member of the local WCTU of Havre, Montana. WCTU members of that community had given…

Tags: children, drama, play, radio, temperance, theater, WCTU, woman's christian temperance union

Helen S. Elliott, Born to Lead: A Puppet Play, The Signal Press, ca. 1950

The mid-twentieth century witnessed the novel idea of enacting the legend of Frances Willard with puppets. “Puppetry has become so universally popular…

Tags: children, drama, Frances Willard, play, puppet, temperance, theater, twentieth century, WCTU, woman's christian temperance union

J. N. Stearns, The Temperance Speaker, National Temperance Society and Publication House, 1876

The Temperance Speaker represents an American-produced contribution to the vast offerings of juvenile temperance “reciters.” It was published by the…

Tags: children, children's literature, dialogue, elocution, lecture, literature, lyceum, national temperance society, nineteenth century, oratory, poetry, public speaking, recitation, story, temperance, WCTU, woman's christian temperance union, women's history

Jane Good, The Uncrowned Queen, Northwestern School of Speech, 1939

The Uncrowned Queen was advertised to Woman’s Clubs, Parent-Teacher Associations, churches, “Business and Professional Women’s clubs” and other groups…

Tags: children, creative drama, drama, elocution, Frances Willard, monologue, northwestern university, solo performance, temperance, theater, twentieth century, WCTU, woman's christian temperance union

Julia Colman, Juvenile Temperance Manual, National Temperance Society and Publication House, 1878

The Juvenile Temperance Manual is a guidebook for adults seeking to provide temperance instruction for children in day schools, Sunday schools, and…

Tags: band of hope, children, drama, elocution, Julia Colman, loyal temperance legion, nineteenth century, scientific temperance, WCTU, woman's christian temperance union, youth group

Lizzie Penney, The National Temperance Orator, National Temperance Society and Publication House, 1884

The National Temperance Orator is one of the many “reciters” compiled by Lizzie Penney for the National Temperance Society, for which Penney also…

Tags: elocution, lecture, lyceum, national temperance society, nineteenth century, oratory, public speaking, temperance, WCTU, woman's christian temperance union, women's history