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Title: The life and work of Susan B. Anthony; including public addresses, her own letters and many from her contemporaries during fifty years
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Harper, Ida Husted, 1851-1931. National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) DLC Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947, former owner
Subjects: Anthony, Susan Brownell, 1820-1906.
Publisher: Indianapolis and Kansas City, The Bowen-Merrill company
Contributing Library: University of Massachusetts, Boston
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Massachusetts, Boston

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joyed a large business. When it was decided to build a number of tenement houses,the judge said, The men will not come to the raising unlessthey can have their gin. Then the houses will not beraised, replied Mr. Anthony, and sent out the invitations.His wife made great quantities of lemonade, training-daygingerbread, doughnuts and the best of tea and coffee. Every-body came, things went off finely, not an accident during theday and all went home sober, having learned, for the firsttime, that there could be a house-raising wathout liquor. But the battle had to be fought continually. A saw-milland a grist-mill were built and no man was employed whodrank to excess. The tavern keeper, who had expected toreap a rich harvest from the factory, was very indignant atthe temperance regulations. He put every temptation in theway of the mill-hands, but Daniel Anthony remained firm.Among his papers are found several letters of repentance andpledges from his men who had fallen from grace and wanted
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