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Browse Collection › LC Subject Heading › 3 records found where LC Subject Heading is Temperance and religion -- North Carolina -- 19th century
	From the bar-room to pulpit: lecture delivered by Samuel W. Small at Stokes Hall, Monday evening, May 14th, 1888 A prohibition lecture delivered at Stokes Hall, Durham by Atlanta evangelist Samuel Small. Small recollects his encounters with Sam P. Jones and his personal conversion from drunkard to prohibitionist.
	Letter from James Southgate to Richard Harvey Wright, June 11, 1886 James Southgate asks Richard Harvey Wright for his support of Prohibition in Durham, North Carolina.
	Letter from Bettie Ann Cunningham to Thomas Decatur Jones , September 08, 1885 Writing from Greensboro, North Carolina, Bettie Ann Cunningham asks her brother Thomas Decatur Jones about his expectant wife Mattie Logan. "I hope she is not uneasy and bears her trouble bravely. I believe all the ladies this year have gone a month over their time and all of them have had girls so be prepared for such a calamity as you men regard it." She also describes her brother John K. Jones' accident and how poor communication between his siblings and their mother Nancy Harriet Keen Jones delayed his medical care. In closing, Bettie advises Thomas to attend Mrs. Chapin's temperance speech when the lecturer travels to Durham.

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