Trivia

What was the Total Abstinence Society?

Answer

A temperance society founded in Portland in 1815. Within a dozen years, the teetotal groups had developed enough political clout to force the enactment of a state law prohibiting the sale of alcoholic spirits except for medicinal and mechanical purposes.

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