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and prayed for the closure of the establishments. These direct, non-violent “Visitation Bands” were successful and quickly spread first across the state of Ohio and then to a total of 22 other states from New York to
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desire for temperance and abstinence, believed that women needed to be educated on the social evils of alcohol.
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