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Letters to and from Mrs. F. M. Long, Corresponding Secretary of a local chapter of WCTU, Fort-Smith, Ark. Letters: from Mrs. Emily H. Thompson of Little Rock, asking Mrs. Long to send report about her Union's work on Anti-Narcotics before the Convention and from Jamie Carr Pittman giving instructions about the content of Mrs. Long's report for the state convention, to be held Oct. 24-28 in Jonesboro.

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This collection also contains a number of printed materials from the end of the nineteenth century through the middle of the twentieth century. The series includes pamphlets published by the various national departments of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union as well as one handbill announcing a national prohibition rally in Fort Smith. Additionally, one can find here dozens of devotionals written mostly by Mrs. J. R. Collins for the Union's Arkansas White Ribboner in the 1950s.

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This collection also contains a number of printed materials from the end of the nineteenth century through the middle of the twentieth century. The series includes pamphlets published by the various national departments of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union as well as one handbill announcing a national prohibition rally in Fort Smith. Additionally, one can find here dozens of devotionals written mostly by Mrs. J. R. Collins for the Union's Arkansas White Ribboner in the 1950s.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Among the religious ephemera are Bible verses, business cards supporting the Christian temperance movement, and stickers advertising the Woman's Christian Temperance Union such as “What you see with your eyes and hear with your ears proves that the thing most responsible for sucking money away from useful business, destroying efficiency, filling divorce courts and jails, and smearing highways with human blood, is drink.” The series also includes ephemera printed by the Union, such as a card...

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This series contains official organizational records of the Fort Smith, Arkansas, chapter of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Included here are minute books, financial ledgers, and loose meeting minutes and newspaper clippings that seem to have been saved intentionally with the record books. A few of the minute books have missing covers or fragile binding, but the contents are otherwise in good condition.

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Begins with membership rolls and dues paid, then moves into other expenses and income.

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Begins with an extended members section, organized alphabetically by last name, mostly for 1922 and 1923. Then, it details expenses and income A few letters have been tucked into the book, generally about money owed to or from the chapter.

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Monies paid and taken in; membership roll in the back.

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The correspondence series is divided into two distinct sections. Administrative correspondence includes notes and letters pertaining to the business of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, from details about conventions to legislators' thoughts on various aspects of the temperance campaign. In a different vein, many of the personal letters to the Fort Smith chapter are thank-you notes for the women's acts of kindness and sympathy.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

This collection also contains a number of printed materials from the end of the nineteenth century through the middle of the twentieth century. The series includes pamphlets published by the various national departments of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union as well as one handbill announcing a national prohibition rally in Fort Smith. Additionally, one can find here dozens of devotionals written mostly by Mrs. J. R. Collins for the Union's Arkansas White Ribboner in the 1950s.